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Never liked the song, and the video is trash. :childplease: at Jay rapping about the color of his Rolls Royce while people bang out in the streets with police. This shyt looks like somebody seen the trailer for "Dark Knight Rises" and thought :obama: "I could do that".

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BTW, the director Romain Gavras is the same guy who directs most of M.I.A.'s recent videos, like Bad Girls and the one where they were shooting freckled kids in the head.

I can't front on that M.I.A. video though for real

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE"]M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]
 

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Romain Gavras makes some good videos. I liked this video a lot (and I'm not really a fan of the song).

I agree that it's a little late (other than Syria, the revolutions are pretty much over and the Occupy movement is basically done). But better late than never... :yeshrug:
 

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Didn't the Run This Town video cover the same theme? :yeshrug:

I don't know why people are mad that Kanye and Jay aren't in the video. Has it come to the point that we're so celebrity obsessed that we can't enjoy a video without a famous person in it? I think they would have ruined the theme of the video by being in it.
 

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the video is not bad, but commin from Kanye West & Jay it's kinda odd, it's like Mickael Jackson doing a stripclub video or Nelly doing a Heal the world video. They are not credible doing that type of ****, plus it's kinda deja vu. I just liked the green lights.

Matter of fact I think the hd nowadays allows directors to be lazy with their video clips by thinking high definition giving a certain cinematic feel to a video we don't have to be original or creative no more
 

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Because videos are suppose to be a representation of an artist vision. It would be nice to know that they had something to do with their official video, which in this situation is most likely not the case. It's not a huge deal but if they are going to lay claim to something that is suppose to be prolific, which I assume was their intention with this style of video and they can't even make an appearance?

EXACTLY.
It's a representation of the artists vision, they don't NEED to be in the video to say something artistically.

I mean Justice's "Stress" video was dope as fvck and they don't make an appearance at all.
 

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Video had nothing to do with the song besides the title. How the fukk did any of that match Kanye's verse?

They should have made a real video for the song and used elements form the lyrics in the actual video.
 

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the video is not bad, but commin from Kanye West & Jay it's kinda odd, it's like Mickael Jackson doing a stripclub video or Nelly doing a Heal the world video. They are not credible doing that type of ****, plus it's kinda deja vu. I just liked the green lights.

Matter of fact I think the hd nowadays allows directors to be lazy with their video clips by thinking high definition giving a certain cinematic feel to a video we don't have to be original or creative no more

:laugh: - visualizing Mike Jack makin a stripclub video
 

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weak. this shyt was already done and excecuted much better very recently

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GvLKTsTuI]Plan B - ill Manors [OFFICIAL VIDEO] OUT NOW - YouTube[/ame]

thats how it is supposed to be done
 

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Corny.

Two rich guys masturbating, and a video about actual struggles and conflicts :wow:

Song is dope but we knew that
 
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