OAN: Kendrick Lamar, All The Stars video analysis / drawn meanings
It begins with his journey across the watery graveyard, the Atlantic Ocean, into which millions of ‘cargo’, enslaved Africans, were tossed into. They’re still there. They help him across.
He has arrived (Africa, although probably more in spirit). He approaches his ancestors, the person at the top is known as Agbala or Agbara in Igbo, the collective spirit of natural forces and the ancestors.
They are expecting him. (Ancestors are children waiting to be reborn.) (Also, more than 20% of enslaved Africans taken to the Americas were under 15.)
Their hats: unity (in ancestral judgement), ritual, heritage; the hats represent Agbala, they are reinitiating K (maybe it’s not all that, but just follow along anyway) back as a member of the lineage, as an eligible ancestor. He walks a path cleared by them.
They know him well, he is just now recognising them (Africa). He wears a do-rag though, a symbol of black American and diaspora culture, but look, it looks just like the other hats, but changed. They all see that. He has something to share.
The rest is mostly just cool shots.
'Oh, wow, look at all the neat stuff in Africa they didn’t tell me about’, ancestral gallery, and all that.
Frozen in time, the glorious past, also not a shanty.
Just to really seriously draw meaning, these are the four primordial forces, the four divisions of the universe, in Igbo: Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo (all traditionally female), they are guarding potential, the gate, the future.
Oh, and she’s his chi (or The Chi).
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