"Send Me An Angel": Yo Gotti's Real Life

From the dirty south afficionados at Traps N Trunks: a music video for "Send Me An Angel," a new song from Memphis rapper Yo Gotti. The song is just all right-for a better idea of Yo Gotti's charms, check out his recent "5 Star" or 2006's "Full Time." But "Send Me An Angel" is interesting for its telling of the story of how Yo Gotti got out of the deal he signed with TVT Records in 2003, which he calls "The biggest mistake I ever made."

The deal was so bad, he says, he had to keep selling cocaine just to make ends meet. ("Hardest rapper in the South/Most respected in the streets/Worstest contract in the game/But still had to find a way to eat.") The video, super lo-budge camcorder footage of the rapper's day-today, is most interesting, if that's the right word, for its depiction of the mundane goings on of the music business-stuff not so often seen.

Yo Gotti gets in and out of cars, talks on the phone, checks his email. We follow him as he walks through the drab gray offices of his new sponsors at Sony Entertainment, shaking hands with secretaries at their cubicles, exchanging awkward pounds with balding white guys. (That's real!)

Here's the best part, though: the song takes its name and melody from the wonderful, synthy 1983 hit from Australian one-hit wonders Real Life. (That's real!) For fun, watch the video, which is sort of like playing D&D with Flock of Seagulls in a Teutonic forest (that's surreal!), and imagine Yo Gotti switching places with singer David Sterry.