I was excited to see one trailer
Then we got a whole video. I just swore I was gonna upload a YouTube commentary as the video seemed so contained and appeared of just music and architecture so I figured I could speak on it. Then I remembered I ain’t got WiFi LMAO. If I do make it to the library maybe I’ll record or go live in tiktok but this is what I have. I also forgot to mention that the hole we’re looking through may be a symbolic way of “framing the past”.
Starts off going backwards only room with no window
1- closest* to the (only) wall (with no window), sitting down organized but a mark was made. Only adlibs til viewing from second room, doesn’t even start to write til we leave that room. Maybe clock on the wall cause they got it right this time? Dark light in the corner which looks like a legal lamp. And a lot of the light is coming from above. The ceiling is white but
The walls are brown and would. Trinkets and trophies. Can’t really tell too lights until almost out of the room
2-previous is same thing but standing up now but still not really rapping. Just got up? Or maybe pacing but words are said.
3- engaging with audience. No longer rapping. Most things are claimed to not be charmed until the third time. The beginning is still in view tho. It is also his death. Cool cat could be the square root of 9 but maybe I’m pushing it. Describing his funeral but the backwardness means they actually aren’t crying anymore?
4- seems it was the quickest room. He does not appear to be there or his things. The orientation is switched and there are 6 people. Could be the 6 Paul bearers or grandchildren he mention are carrying him. One looks different from the other 5. They are all looking down on “us” as Cole and his other three selves are above them. They’re throwing flowers into the casket we’re now entering. The song also is describing them
5. Once we’re past his death it his flows describes another view change as him being the one who shall lurk. 2 of him are in same room as he just Has a table trash can and a lot of notes crumbled that didn’t even make it to the trash can. One engaging with us and another still writing. Before all the way exiting we can see room 6 him peering in. Yellow and white paper. Only yellow on the table though. Yellow usually symbolizes friendship but it looks to be a legal pad. He’s talking about winning his awards now which may have been before his death but probably not. The music of course was made then but like great artist I think it was intentionally mentioned afterwards even tho the story is being told in reverse. Is emerced a play on lack of empathy
6. His symbolic 2 kids are on the wall. Is it like Micheal Jackson’s writing on the wall. His kids being a testament of his existence. But since it’s going backwards they’re being unborn. The toys are on the ground but what the children are actually doing are what’s on the walls maybe showcasing how their writing will be on the wall and not the things Cole bought them. One is drawing in blue towards the future and the other is driving a black truck or maybe a hearse to the past? Maybe symbolizing they’re not playing. Giving the blues and taking things back? The kids are not on the ground but he is
7. He’s not in this room but 4 pregnant ladies are. One set apart from the others and looking a lot younger. Stating His career coming first. Balloons in the air capped by the ceiling could be different shades of blue. Or sadness being undone? Feeling his career coming first? Could that be foreshadowing it’s already happened end? Cause the break. The fall off? He ask do I?
8. As he reverse puts the ringer on his finger becoming single symbolically. Now he is on top but upside down. Because he hasn’t married her yet at this point and maybe never placed the career first or was absent during pregnancies. He’s aware but still in these scandalous situations
9. The camera is panning now changing the view of everything putting him right side up. A women in red like the matrix and destructions he describes is already on the perceived ground now as another Cole hangs over her trying not to fall into the opening we’ve been traveling through.
10. A party scene where drinks aren’t even spilling. Unaware of their worth as if he changes it after or the usual narritive. Things have not ceased to spin. Approx 18 people all in black except Cole. The girls are few but seem excited to be there. The girls are on every orientation or occupying ever wall but non on top. Nobody is on top with this one near the lights. Some are higher than Cole but have their backs toward the ceiling. Mention of perks and girls not knowing their worth, then mentions merchandise. Maybe as to say how like clubs (and with a fitting club scene), the women usually get in cheaper because they attract guys who will spend more to get in and impress. So their worth is like bait. But the music industry is strange and though everyone partakes, artists are consistently underpaid. J Cole being a “conscious” and intelligent rapper has probably avoided a lot of common label traps by pacing his career and producing and writing for himself and even making money off his merch. Like being in the world but not of it or At the very least creating a sustainable foundation. The women’s worth could also be a play on how men stay men but women become wives and/or two humans at a point, once becoming pregnant. Men are called grooms after marriage but the scene when he was writing may elude to the non-necessity to even clean or even being there once the baby is conceived (empty pregnant women room). Going backwards the mothers in those moments probably just viewed themselves as regulars girls/ladies and not potential mothers and wives. Also in this seemingly longer room he speaks of comraddery with those who wore his merch and is scene only toasting with those closest to the beginning of the room. Someone has their hands wide behind him seeming to gesture for a hug but they don’t have drink. Are they just begging and trying to be noticed or even celebrating? He doesn’t seem happy
11. The view finally stabilizes and struggle appears right before he got to celebrate. He’s alone and visibly in strife but still at this point doesn’t bother with people
12. Playing basketball in snowy conditions upside down on the fueling. Back to his school days I presume maybe on the ceiling with peak confidence. Because he was signed by Hov. The ball stayed in the snow. Maybe foreshadowing the previous scene where he was insecure because during that time something different was normal. He legit stayed down and struggled maybe a basketball metaphor of how if you dribble low you’re less likely to have the ball stolen too? Cuts on cable was the beginning of his even him being signed which also reminded me of how this whole thing is somewhat set up like the Netflix movie the Platform and how it, and it’s sequel were in the order where the prequel was released last. Relating to social hierarchies and how what is normal is not normal and thought of as prosperous until made so, and is usually done in combination with their being negative feedback on what eventually prevailed.
13. This scene has a very big tv and Cole speaks about his father entering his life and healing him, but we know the opposite of this has happened.
14. He is being born in this scene and there are 3 lights above. Him being handed to the doctor, though in reverse could be him alluding to him being born sick/ill (talented). We see the original room without a desk and chair but with a crib now. Then he doesn’t even exist yet as if to say it was written? Or attesting to God’s will before it is scene most times
15. Things are just floating in that same room and there are weeds and vines on the wall. No gravity, 2 lights again.
16. He peers into this non gravity room from an empty room with 3 lights again. He cuts off the lights which could be a a reference to one of his earlier projects that featured a song lights please
It was nice to have something I could sit through and complete in one take 😭😆. I edited that first line but that’s all I’m doing
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