Jay Z released moonlight video with ISSA RAE

[stepbackj34spud]

they had to throw in a lightskin tho?smh

 

[Perfectson]

they had to throw in a lightskin tho?smh

 

[JerseyBoy23]

When you really think about it, it's a parody of Friends, which stole the concept of the show from Living Single so really Jay is just bringing back to where it belonged.

Also no Tessa Thompson, Issa Rae, or Tiffany Haddish slander will be tolerated

 

[NoChillJones]

overboard with the militant shyt. Friends was a good show for what it was.

You're p poppin for daps tho

Hes really not. White humor doesnt age well at all. Friends is corny as fukk now..where as 12 years ago it was funnier to me. But I can watch episodes of Martin for 25 years ago and cry with laughter....thats not across the board for all shows though....

 

[Dre Space Age]

With moonlight being synonymous with brokeback mountain these days is it safe to watch cause I ain't bout that fossyclot shenanigans

 

[Funk Flex]

Ok friend stoled the concept from living single. But y'all gotta tell me why that matters in the long run because they had to different demos. Black people weren't fukking with friends like that and whites weren't watching living single. Do you think they should get some type of credits or compensation? No matter what Friends was gonna be the bigger show if it caught on because it's more white people plus other minority groups who want the white lifestyle

 

[Paradise50]

$20 for the first person to actually explain wtf this video was about. $50 for the 4:44 video.........

Jay going the Kanye route with these shallow deep meaning videos. Im not knocking the video I think the concept is dope......but after watching I still don't understand the premise. Other then it being Carmichael walking away from his own sitcom. That aspect was very clear.........

Jay been biting Kanye a lot over the past decade or so but I'm sleep

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

This just reminded me how unfunny as fukk Friends was

Cac humor is awful

I would rather listen to Japanese comedy than cac humor

I can't even get passed the 1st episode of Friends

 

[head shots101]

This just reminded me how unfunny as fukk Friends was

Cac humor is awful

I would rather listen to Japanese comedy than cac humor

My wife still watches that corny shyt and be dying of laughter

 

[Guvnor]

Legacys beat is incredible. Marcy me is nostalgic. The whole album is perfect tbh

It is man, Jay released a real masterpiece. I go back and forth between whether Damn is better then this and it's really close.

Might only give Damn and edge cause it's more content but this album by Jay here was put together so perfect. Even the blue freestyle fit the album well lol.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

they had to throw in a lightskin tho?smh

 

[Family Lives Matter]

they had to throw in a lightskin tho?smh

Negged your trying to hard this isn't TLR.

 

[southern.girl]

An all-black version of F.R.I.E.N.D.S

This concept is wack to me. First off, Living Single was first. Secondly, why can't you big up the great black shows instead of trying to recreate a white one? This is a clear case of "the white man's ice is colder." Y'all are quick to tell black women how we shouldn't glamourize Marilyn Monroe when we have Dorothy Dandrige. How is this any different?

Moonlight video is about the "awakening" of black consciousness when it comes to how we are portrayed in mainstream media and entertainment. There was a VERY good HBO movie that dropped in the mid 2000's called Dancing In September starring Nicole Ari Parker and Isiah Washington that went deeper into the concept.

Dancing in September was a great film.

here comes the over analysis. Talking about baffoons and c00ns.

To be fair, Ziggiy is a film writer. It's his passion.

 

[YourSavior]

This concept is wack to me. First off, Living Single was first. Secondly, why can't you big up the great black shows instead of trying to recreate a white one? This is a clear case of "the white man's ice is colder." Y'all are quick to tell black women how we shouldn't glamourize Marilyn Monroe when we have Dorothy Dandrige. How is this any different?



Dancing in September was a great film.



To be fair, Ziggiy is a film writer. It's his passion.

Missed the whole point bro

 

[YourSavior]

4:44 video has no meaning lol. Jay fired and MISSED with that one


Moonlight video is about the "awakening" of black consciousness when it comes to how we are portrayed in mainstream media and entertainment. There was a VERY good HBO movie that dropped in the mid 2000's called Dancing In September starring Nicole Ari Parker and Isiah Washington that went deeper into the concept.

Basically Hollywood has mostly portrayed Blacks in a negative light or HIGHLY c00nism or buffoonish. Think about Good Times, when the Producers pushed JJ's goofy ass over the family dynamic. Or something like Homeboys In Outer Space or countless examples I can name of. Whereas most the historically "prestige" sitcoms about white daily life have been met with unanimous praise and reviews while depicting multi-Faceted characters with arcs and growth.

So you have a generation of black actors/comedians/creatives WISHING that they could be apart of a black "Friends" or "Seinfeld". But what they don't realize is that that type of humor is white by nature, targeted towards whites, about white experiences. So when the black entertainers try to mimic that format it comes off corny and not at all what they envisioned.

Issa Rae and Jerrod Carmichael in REAL LIFE represent the rejection of the notion that you have to follow the white blueprint to attain success. Both Carmichael Show and Insecure are unabashedly "black" in the DNA of their storytelling.

That's why the basis for Jerrod "walking away" from his sitcom is a larger symptom of deep seated racism within the industry. The network only gave his show a 6 episode first season. It outperformed expectations. Then they only gave him a 13 episode 2nd season (when most sitcoms get 22) and the show STILL outperformed expectations. THEN they only gave him 13 episodes for a third, and he had to battle with them every step of the way to tell the story in an authentic way. The network put minimal marketing muscle behind it. And finally he said "fukk it" and walked away.

"Even when we win we gonna lose" is basically the Carmichael Show's ironic fate. It outperformed, was a critical success, but that still wasn't enough to give Carmichael the creative freedom to do as he chose.

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