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The video for G.O.M.D from J.Cole directed by Lawrence Lamont is an antebellum styled slave narrative. There are many period pieces centered around the typical slave narrative, none like this. It shows J.Cole as a house slave who takes advantage of an opportunity, he arms the field slaves and takes over the plantation, at some point you think someone would write a movie were the slave leads an uprising and takes over. A reality to the times, albeit rare, but there are very few narratives to portray those aspects which is important, because if you believe hollywood you would think everyone owned slaves,but facts show it was less than 3% of the entire population.
You wouldn't think that a rap video could so tastefully portray these types of events; with all that is transpiring in this United States this seems to be done at just the right time. It also shows the dynamics of relations between black and white people, without help from one lady in the video it could have gone terribly wrong.
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