Jay Z released moonlight video with ISSA RAE

[Kilgore Trout]

someone re up the link

 

[Reno89]

$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.........

How can you not understand the video, yet tell us how it lacks depth?

 

[Perfectson]

Who the hell is Napoleon with that cac alert shyt

i seen your posting, you're joke - don't quote me , neg me and move on p*ssy

 

[Y.B.E]

Stop letting these lame ass white boys derail this shyt

Oh and just for the record, fukk friends, corny ass shyt.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Please please please give us a better concept of how using a black show to get a point for a song called "Moonlight" named after a black movie that was snubbed by "La La Land" a white movie (accidentally) -------- please tell me how using a black show for the Carmichael situation would have made any sense......

Cac alert

Moonlight wast not snubbed in any way shape or form

 

[CrimsonTider]

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

Your girlfriend is a video game machine.

Why would you fear anything that Moonlight presents

 

[YourSavior]

Moonlight wast not snubbed in any way shape or form

Indeed,Snubbed is a bad choice of words but the win was tainted and overshadowed the historical impact

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Moonlight wast not snubbed in any way shape or form

they got a shytty deal

imagine that's you... a movie gets announced for best picture.. the crowd goes ape shyt remember it's nominated for 14 awards, a record and won 7

everybody filing up to get their awards... smiling, happy, good shyt






then the guy is up there thanking people... gets out an entire speech... another guys gets up and makes an entire speech... THIRD GUY makes an entire speech.... then says "hey guys moonlight actually won... they made a mistake"






crowd just laughs and you hear someone cry out in horror no no guys i'm serious


jimmy kimmel literally says "i think you guys should keep it anyway"

then we get 5 more minutes of explaining from people...

then we finally get to giving the award and giving a speech






that shyt was a fiasco at what should have been their greatest moment.. more people talked about the mistake and why lala land should have won, than they did about moonlight actually winning

at their greatest moment, they had to play second fiddle

 

[Dre Space Age]

Your girlfriend is a video game machine.

Why would you fear anything that Moonlight presents

And yours is a fleshlight and anal plug fukk outta here

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

If a sitcom with that cast was real

If he made that a show on his platform, I'd sign up for tidal

 

[lightbearerchef]

issa rae

 

[Kilgore Trout]

https://tidal.com/video/77065264

Need a non tidal link

 

[bucks3115]

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.

Get this fukkin rep

 

[mson]

they had to throw in a lightskin tho?smh

What's wrong with that?

 

[Ill-Mind]

Great video, I like how everyone cast was from current successful black shows, along with Get Out and Girls Trip being represented

That's my GOAT