Did y'all see the "B*tch Bad" music video?

[thegreatest]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3m3t_PxiUI]Lupe Fiasco - bytch Bad [Music Video] - YouTube[/ame]

I haven't seen a thread on this yet, other than the one about Spin dissing Lu. But generally speaking how did y'all like the vid?

For me it went like this.

Beat comes on
Lupe starts spitting

Then I watched the whole thing and was like

Don't get me wrong, I like conscious rap and musically Lupe did his thing, took me back to his days of old.. But the man is confused.

Here's how I see the plot:
Men grow up thinking a "bad bytch" is a nice girl, girls grow up thinking being a "bad bytch" is something sexual, and in the end there's a mismatch because "bad bytch" means different things to them . The fukk? There were like 20 better ways to rap about sexism and stereotyping, what is this?!

As if that doesn't make the clip confused enough, he throws images of drug abuse, blackface and rappers/video chicks going through emotional breakdowns into the mix.

Liked the beat and thought his flow was dope but damn Lu.. You trying too damn hard.. Stick to one "deep" message per video, this shyt is like a swiss army knife of conscious hip-hop messages and it doesn't work.

shyt just came across like conscious hip-hop for the MTV generation.. Yeah, it's "shocking" for someone to put all these strong messages into a song, but there's nothing new or really thought-provoking here. I'm starting to wonder if Lu is really built for this smart hip-hop shyt and shouldn't just go back to rhyming about skateboards.

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

the blackface images was a reference to the 1998 spike lee movie Bamboozled


if u haven't seen it, do so, it's an awesome movie

 

[thegreatest]

the blackface images was a reference to the 1998 spike lee movie Bamboozled


if u haven't seen it, do so, it's an awesome movie

I was only 9 when that movie came out and never saw it. Maybe the music video will make more sense to me if that's what it references

 

[Finelli]

Maybe I should watch this again..

 

[RajWatts]

what i got out of it is its basically showing the contradictions and inconsistencies in the word itself, and saying that people should stop using it altogether.

 

[daze23]

beat comes on:

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

I thought lupe video was very dope BTW


it illustrates however, how shytty contemporary major label music is, tho


garbage like chief keef and rick ross, bein shoved down the throat of gullibe yutes

 

[Guess Who]

The blackface was to show that a lot of the ideas and characterizations of black people in the media are not creations of our own and are given to us, then pimped, in essence having us do the work of the oppressors ourselves. That's also why the dude and the chick were having emotional breakdowns as they came to the realization that selling out their identities and helping destroy the identities of others wasn't worth the money and "success."

 

[thegreatest]

The blackface was to show that a lot of the ideas and characterizations of black people in the media are not creations of our own and are given to us, then pimped, in essence having us do the work of the oppressors ourselves. That's also why the dude and the chick were having emotional breakdowns as they came to the realization that selling out their identities and helping destroy the identities of others wasn't worth the money and "success."

I can only speak from the outside looking in because I'm not black. However, when I look at 50 cent - who the video seemed to take shots at (tanktop, sugar water) - I don't think of someone who's selling out his identity. Just an extremely successful individual.

In fact, the people I thought of while seeing that clip were.. Lil Flip, Ying Yang Twinz, and other ignorant (mostly southern) rappers, only a few of who became successful. Most hip-hop artists rap about things that were a part of their environment and life experiences.

When I look at Disney pimping out 10-12 year old kids, and then at rappers pushing forward their ideas of wealth/success, I just feel that that's how the music industry is.. Built to sell ridiculous, exaggerated images to weak people.

But that's my 0.02$, obviously I can only say/know so much about that aspect of the vid because I'm - again - not black.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Wasalu my nikka but sometimes he can be preachy. Guess its goes with being great ie; Lupe and Blu.

 

[Art Barr]

i could not make it through this,...

this record is just awful.


art barr