” Why Every Rich Black Man Got To Be Famous, Why Every Black Poor Man Got To Be Brainless,… That’s A Stereotype! “
Taking on the role of legendary freedom fighter Nat Turner in his new video ‘G.O.M.D’ , J.Cole delivers subtle messages to his fans on his awakening of the music industry, his position [as the house n—a] , and his success which has withdrew much support from his fellow kinsman.
They’re so many interpretations that can drawn from the Lawrence Lamont directed video without total judgment of Cole’s popular one liner ‘Get Off My D–k’ that is uttered a few times throughout the song. As one commentator wrote:
” Basically, this video relates to this song because the slaves (J.coles fans) are mad at him and hating on him because he made it (isn’t a field hand) and forgot about his people and where he came from(with the slaves) and now, j.cole is opening the door for revolution by releasing songs like “Be Free” (which is the metaphors for him giving guns to the slaves) and him saying Get Off My D–k, to the ones that doubted him, and said he lost it. “
There’s always quick judgment to point out the bad [in someone, or something] but let’s think critically here shall we.
Long live the days when Hip Hop was saluted for its unconventional ‘revolutionary’ stance with conscious rap spreading across the atmosphere from pioneer artists from every coast in the late 80’s through the 90’s like [ Run DMC, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Mc Lyte, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Queen Latifah, Jeru The Damaja, Dead Prez, Tupac Shakur, Pharoahe Monch, The Fugees, Talib Kweli and Mos Def, etc]. No need to ask, what happened to the culture, because we can clearly see the obvious here. Unlike no other music genre, Hip Hop [in particular] swiftly shifted it gears to the likes of mainstream ‘debauchery’ media . The question is WHY? Thus, why yet again, we have to examine the chosen targets for this project.
In the video, J.Cole reminds his people that he’s not a ‘sell out’ as some may like to think. A YT commentator sums up my notions pretty accurately.
” I think there are multiple subliminal’s you can catch from this, the obvious one being racial tension. But one possibility i thought of was this being Cole’s music career. In the beginning he was being hated by the field n*gga (hood n*gga) because he was a ‘house n*gga’ (college possibly?) until he found his way out with the keys (Jay Z) and embraced his music career. Then he showed the field n*ggas that he was trying to help them and bring them all together and they were cool when he gave them the guns (music). “
Now there are many people who too feel like Azealia Banks, and would simply like the eradication of all of and any ‘slave’ history references [movies included] that often show black people as the ‘threat’ of white supremacy; hence the reason for the ‘smudging out’ the black culture.
In words of the PLUM motto: There have an will always be the ‘Good’ Bad’ & ‘Ugly’ ills of our society. While many people maybe uncomfortable with this video and its overtones of modern day ‘black’ slavery, I applaud J. Cole for opting against the current music norm; using his GOD given talent [creative rhymes] to educate and spread social awareness to the people instead.
Check out his video below:
One Love PLUM’s!