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Jay-Z and Kanye West, "Otis"
Here is the video to the CONTROVERSIAL!!! lead single from the CONTROVERSIAL!!! new album from Jay-Z and Kanye West. I like it. It's a lot the chase scene from the beginning to Back to the Future, except Jay and Kanye have made their time travel vehicle out of a Maybach (and an Otis Redding sample) instead of a DeLorean.
Hmmm.
Makes me appreciate Otis Redding a lot more.
Also…who is non Kanye/Jay-Z guy in the suit? He's kind of random.
Besides, Otis Redding hasn't really made an exciting hip hop single in at least four years.
@Matt Gotta go write a thesis on the difference between a joke and a meme.
@Matt How do you know? Have you been to the bottom of Lake Monona lately?
@hockeymom I believe that is the comedian and actor Aziz Ansari.
@Dave Bry I know…I was just being silly.
Really…I think JayZ and Kanye are almost always interesting. I love listening to the actual words because they can be really, really smart and/or funny.
But when I listen to this song mixed in with an old Redding tune, the emotional punch comes from the old stuff. (and I don't know, Redding probably didn't even write that, so maybe I'm giving him too much credit.) I just like to feel something when I listen to a song and for me, this one missed the mark.
Also, the girls in the back seat of that car should have been wearing helmets. That was a very unsafe situation for them.
And get off my lawn.
@hockeymom I think I love you.
@hockeymom That would be a Daft Punk video.
(And sorry i didn't get your "who's Aziz?" joke. The problems with conveying tone on the internet, etc.)
Love the video though. It confronts and deflates a lot of the criticisms of the Otis Redding sample – "Yes, we know, we are basically ripping up a car that costs half a million dollars. We just want to do donuts in it on an airport tarmac. Fuck off."
I sort of like the cognitive dissonance of hearing the music in lieu of all of the intense sounds that are suggested but absent: the blow torch, the saw, roaring engine, squealing tires, fireworks, scraping metal, shrieking ladies, a complete Otis song, &c. My only complaint is that the American flag could have been a lot bigger. And they should have worked in a chainsaw and a jet ski and an M1 Abrams tank rolling over an IED hidden in a cash register. Ka-boom and Ka-ching, baby.