@altart8102

6 years ago

Saw too many comments of people who have an issue with this video or don't get it, and I'm like....did you guys watch the video all the way through? Like where the one guy (Hannibal Buress) is literally telling him that the show and his acting is wack because it's just like a white demographically aimed show except with all black actors? So the dude starts to realize how unrealistic the show he's playing in is, question what he's even doing on this set that's got an all black cast as if it's supposed to be groundbreaking for African American culture, supposed to be some sort of win and representation of black people, but nothing about the show resembles that culture besides their black faces. So what's the point. Same candy just in a brown wrapper, being marketed as something that it's not. Some comment was bothered that this was a white vs black thing and was ranting about it. How black people are doing the woe-is-me thing and how we're just complaining about not being acknowledged, etc. ...pretty annoying. There's complaints because the identity of African Americans in media has often been an issue (both in music and film). That's kinda why a ton of shows were made and are still being made that more accurately depict African American lives realistically (even at the cost of popularity and viewer consumption which at times seems to not want to support or market that kind of media much). So beyond being a white vs black issue, I took from the video the message of not losing your identity to get ahead and appeal to people that don't even want to accept you unless you act different. Identity is the issue for me. Honestly, I still haven't watched Moonlight and when Friends was popular back in the day, I didn't really care to watch it unless my fam was watching it. But even on my first watch-through of this video, I get at least some basic points. Media issues, shows being ripped off of each other and just packaged with a different color, misrepresentation, the La La Land - Moonlight issue where it seems like even with an incredible movie like Moonlight, the system still doesn't want to allow it to win. Some dude in the comments was saying how Jay-Z made that whole mix-up issue to be too deep and that there was nothing really to it in reality. But really, regardless of it just being a mistake, it had impact, and to Jay Z, it meant somethin. Anything's as deep as you wanna make it, and the social commentary that he made from that issue onto this song and this video shows it was deep for him (and a ton of others in the comments). But ya know, seeing as I didn't watch much of either media talked about in this video, feel free to discredit everything I say. I just wanted to add something since alot of people were lost and/or hating on people that gave explanation. Walks off the set, through all the blinding lights, out the back door, out into reality, lets the moonlight shine some light onto his situation. Because that Moonlight issue pretty much summarizes it. "Even when we win, we gon' lose."

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