“One Love” is a lyrical
masterpiece by Nas. The song is a chain of letters Nas has written to
imprisoned friends explaining what has happened in their neighborhood
while they've been incarcerated. He brings his lyrical vision to life
when he released the “One Love” music video, illustrating the
slang riddled song in his eyes.
The music video uses color to separate
the outside world and prison using all types of color in the outside
scenes and black and white in prison scenes. The music goes on to the
events that have happened including a cheating girlfriend, a
traitorous friend, and a nefarious kid. The video alternates showing
these events and how his friends in prison reacted after reading each
occurrence showing a kind of regret for not being there. The kid,
Rob, is the main character in this story. He is seen pointing his gun
at a woman. The video then cuts to the ambulance giving the viewer an
inkling that the woman was either injured or killed but this inkling
turns into assurance when the next scene shows the kid thrown in the
back of a policeman's car in handcuffs.
Many music videos and songs show a
rapper's intention of embracing the gang and drug culture but in this
music video it makes the viewer not want to be in these types of
situations. This video was a way to show how bad reality sinks in
when your in these situations or emotionally in them and in one scene
it shows Nas's futile attempts at getting away from it. The videos
end illustrates how bad behavior or even the surroundings a person is
native to can ruin maybe even end their or another person's life.
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