[Music Video] J. Cole - Crooked Smile (feat. TLC)

[MINT]

dude making average music but puts 110% effort into making concept music videos. makes no sense

 

[Coonsequence]

my nikka cole out here auditioning for tyler perry movie roles b.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

It's a full length version of Kendrick randomly throwing the "Death to Molly" message at the end of the b!tch don't kill my vibe video...an attempt to solidify and push a "conscious" image, though it may not necessarily have a goddamned thing to do with the song...i was about to come in and mock it for being overwrought and overly dramatic and wonder out loud if they considered a scene of drowning puppies to pull on the heartstrings a little more, before I saw it was (very) loosely inspired by the Aiyana Jones tragedy and somehow the war on drugs and felt like an a$$hole

Think it'll do a decent enough job of hammering home how "deep" J. Cole is to his fanbase, the actual message being jumbled to all hell notwithstanding...I definitely prefer it to the original video concept which appeared to be a refashioning of TLC's Unpretty video but with child actors...which I'm pretty sure i would have had to turn off half way through...Cole prolly saw the final cut of that sh!t, was overwhelmed by the cutesy cheesiness and thought "fukk THAT...LET'S DEPICT A KID BEING TRAGICALLY KILLED"...the absolute other extreme

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

dude making average music but puts 110% effort into making concept music videos. makes no sense

He's bizzaro from superman

 

[sporticus]

That's great and all, but what's it got to do with the song?

 

[gluvnast]

Some of y'all are very dense. Listen to the last verse of the song. This video definitely correlates with the overall meaning to crooked smile, which the song itself is more than someone's physical features.

We don't look nothing like the people on the screen
You know them movie stars, picture perfect beauty queens
But we got dreams and we got the right to chase ‘em
Look at the nation, that’s a crooked smile braces couldn’t even straighten
Seem like half the race is either on probation, or in jail
Wonder why we inhale, cause we in hell already
I asked if my skin pale, would I then sell like Eminem or Adele?
But one more time for the 'Ville
And fukk all of that beef shyt, nikka let’s make a mil
Hey officer man, we don’t want nobody getting killed
Just open up that cell, let my brother out of jail
I got money for the bail now, well now
If you asking will I tell now? Hell naw
I ain’t snitching cause
Man, they get them nikkas stitches now
If you was around, then you wouldn’t need a witness now
How you like this crooked smile?

 

[gluvnast]

also, google aiyana jones.... it's about a raid gone wrong and she got killed in her sleep. (now the world can't see her crooked smile)

 

[A.V.]

Right video, wrong song.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I hate this nikka yo. It's the same shyt he did with the Power Trip video. Instead of makin a simple nice video that could send this shyt to the top ten he puts out some weird shyt.

This is exactly why Cole's sales are starting to lag. He waited WAY to long to drop this video. Cole should be on his 3rd Video now. With that said, I like this song and the message behind it. Be yourself people. But why couldn't TBoz or Chilli get in the video?

You fake ass A&Rs kill me man.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Can't stand you "videos need to follow the song word for word" ass nikkas. If these dudes prefer a concept video thatll actually get hits on YouTube vs some dumbed down shyt, let them cook

Edit: I agree he coulda dropped both tho

 

[JoelB]

Got damn this nikka boring as shyt

dope video tho

 

[GoldenGlove]

 

[Ghost Like Swayze]

Been waiting on that new Cole video. Album is my surprise hit of the year.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Wow.

Powerful video. Especially the U.S. anthem playing as they cart him and the litte girl off.

Land of the free home of the brave

 

[-Quikness-]

i used to listen to cole heavy but i cant fukkin stand this song no more