This is a great process video as they watch and things dawn on them that there is much more going on here than meets the eye.
Great YouTube comments on the video's page as well.
You Tube comment from alicia906
The lyrics are a warning to the black community that new Jim Crowe is here. The police are waiting for any reason. "Don't catch you slipping up".
Gambino is playing the entertaining old black face minstrel Jim Crowe. His pants are the style of confederate uniform. Each time he uses a weapon it is carefully handed off with a beautiful red cloth. Giving the weapons the red carpet treatment. While not caring for the dead. One of the dances is a South African dance called the gwara gwara. They are still experiencing vestiges of apartheid racism within southern African countries especially namibia.
The apocalypse or death rides the white horse when we're not paying attention. The black man jumps to his death. Suicide is high for black men.
The old empty cars are poor unarmed people killed in routine traffic stops.
But don't focus on the harsh reality. "Watch me move". Keep having fun watching the black artist entertain everyone.
A lot of Consumers like black culture or entertainment, but not black people. So "get yo money black man."
The public & police are taught to fear a black man with nothing in his hands. Everyone scatters, scared to death of him pointing with nothing but his hands.
He sees what's happening and is trying to escape it while also warning his community while the media chases him like a horde of zombies.
There are many more double meanings. This is a summary.
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