The emotion of “My President” is overwhelming enthusiasm, and it’s seen in the quick close-ups of ecstatic supporters shaking signs, the proud stoicism of the biker dude towards the end, or the roving, overhead camera that captures the exuberance of the multi-racial crowd. But right now, we don’t need the comfort or pseudo-comfort of politically active artists acting as leaders, we just need them to cheer us on to cheer for our President. Notice how Jeezy stands surrounded by the wilding-out-with-joy crowd, not elevated above them on a stage like Public Enemy, who must perform or play the role of political leader in lieu of, you know, actual political leaders. Compare the amount of close-up time Chuck D and Flavor Flav receive versus Jeezy. In “My President,” the crowd’s gathered together in joy instead of angry defiance. The importance of Obama’s presidency cannot be overstated but I still get a little nervous when so many declare Martin Luther King’s dream “arrived” or pronounce way more absurd platitudes about “post-racial” America, but “change” is laid bare on the political pop landscape when you compare the big crowd joy of “My President” with the organized outrage of “Fight The Power.”
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The biggest flip, though, is Hart and Jeezy’s decision to create an analogue and then update on Spike Lee’s masterful video for Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”. When the “Lambo” does return later in the video to be doted-on luxuriously through quick dissolve close-ups, it’s been recontextualized by Jeezy’s sad triumph of a hook. But the camera doesn’t dote on its luxury it’s shot hand-held and sloppily. After a pretty absurd introduction to the video-one tacked on fairly recently, not there when the video premiered and better with it absent-a fun sense of flipping or complicating hip-hop clichés begins, starting with that first shot of a blue Lamborghini-keeping with the materialism we anticipate in a rap video.
While Gabriel Hart’s video doesn’t walk the song’s same awesome line of being product and rarefied expression, he does capture some of “My President”s pluralities. Pay all these damn bills, feed all these damn kids?īuy all these school shoes, buy all these school clothes?įor some strange reason my son addicted to Polos” “I said, I woke up this morning, headache this big?
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