A pure narrative video will feature no lip-synched singing and the narrative will often relate to the lyrics of the song in some way with the lyrics often reflected within the story.The most common form of music video is a combination of Performance and Narrative. This is a video that shows a performance by the band / artist, but also has a narrative within it. Often the video narrative will mimic a film genre.

Below are some videos that fit under the Narrative category of music videos.

"Money Man" / "Put That On My Set" - A$AP Mob - ft. A$AP Rocky, A$AP Nast, Yung Lord, Skepta

Dexter Navy's epic 12-minute short film for A$AP Rocky is an intense piece of social realism mixed with magic realism - set in London, but with universal resonance.

A double video for the tracks Money Man and Put That On My Set, this is an impressionistic take on the thug life, where the drugs being dealt are the butterflies that fill the city air.

Dexter Navy was inspired by seeing a friend's bag of butterfly wings to jump on the phone to Rocky to convince him that the drugs in the video should be butterflies. Days later Navy was shooting in Ladbroke Grove, transforming that idea into a harrowing, violent, yet visually stunning story.

Everything was shot on black and white 16mm Arri, and 16mm Bolex, with visual effects work at Absolute Post - with a brilliant edit by Navy.

"Dilemma" - Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland