12/28/2022 0 Comments Brand new yo gotti music video![]() What is the message here? What is the weight of Gotti’s artistic vision? What Gotti is doing here is subtly ingenious: Juxtaposing images of America-specifically imagery of the American dream-with money that grows on trees and, in a reformulation of that ancient idiom, money that grows from grass, produces a highly specific vision of the way that capital is accumulated in America. Lining the meticulously manicured lawns and modest front lawn trees are hundred-dollar bills-strewn haphazardly, and as the video develops, raked ineffectively. However, Gotti is reformulating the average through the careful composition of his scene. ![]() The video opens innocuously enough-on an average American street, with average identical American homes, average American white fences, average American front lawns, and slightly oversized (read: average) American rakes. ![]() The high intellectual thought, the unencumbered attention to detail, lovingly wrenched from Gotti’s artistic soul and poured into the composition of the song’s visual accompaniment, is nothing short of true inspiration for every ambitious American artist. Or perhaps, as Gotti implores us to think, the two are not mutually exclusive. Yo Gotti’s “Rake It Up”-despite seemingly being a paean to lazily refusing to pick up your money in a strip club-is a representation of the American dream. ![]()
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