This is a well-known an up-coming artist known as Ab-soul. His style is mainly Conscious Rap and is in the group known as TDE. This song also focuses on the concept of government corruption and being under 'Control' from being a free human being. Unlike Joey's music video, this video was shot in the night time which means they would've needed to have very good lighting. Something which is reacquiring in both of the music videos is the use of the American flag in the background (or in the case of Joey's music video, one of the extra's was wearing an American flag as a cape). This can denote a deeper meaning and can be interpreted in many ways; one way of interpreting it is that they feel as if they are constantly fed the 'American agenda' and feel as if it clothing that they can never remove. However, unlike Joey's music video, this music video uses extra effects which are sometimes in sync with the beat of the song. Perhaps the reason these artist use outside scenery and such urbanised looking scenery, can mean that they feel that black youths are constantly on a struggle to get to where they would like to be. They also use footage from news casts such as reports on police brutality, homeless epidemics etc.
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