Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Power Trip - J. Cole ft Miguel (the meaning behind the video)

J. Cole is a freaking genius for the Power Trip video. If you don't understand the video, you need to watch it after listening to Dreams. If you still don't understand it, this post is here for you.

In order to understand the video, you need to listen to Dreams. In Dreams, he describes how he met the girl and how he believes she's the one for him. J. Cole has always had crushes on girls he couldn't have then he'd end up messing with someone he shouldn't have. Towards the middle of the song, the girl tells J. Cole (after he builds up the nerve to speak to her) that she has a boyfriend. J. Cole then raps a the end of the song,"So I find out the nigga name, know exactly where he staying. Find out when he leave for work, hold up nigga, is you sane?"

That leads into the video you see here, Power Trip. In the beginning of the video, you see J. Cole is outside of the girl of his dreams' house. In Dreams, he stalks her to her home just to sit outside and daydream about her. Maybe if she's outside one day, she'll wave at him. Anyway, next, you see Miguel walk out of the bathroom, preparing for work and kiss his girlfriend (J. Cole's dream girl).

J. Cole and his friend kidnap and murder Miguel as he's on his way to work. They wrap his body up in a body bag and stores the body on the hood of their trunk. No lie, I shrieked seeing Miguel in that body bag. He really looked dead. Obviously, J. Cole is mesmerized by love and he's willingly to do anything for her. I think he was drunk or high when he saw the woman in white on the road after being pulled over by the police for being suspicious. "Got me up all night, all I'm singing is love songs. She got me up all night, constant drinking and love songs." Those lyrics can be backed up when you see J. Cole sitting at the bar in the strip club, rubbing his head. He was feeling the guilt of murdering Miguel or drunk to the point he was sleepy. I think I'll go with his conscience was bothering him. When I first watched the video, I was surprised to see (but expecting) that J. Cole was burying Miguel's body. He killed the boyfriend to get the girl of his dreams. Didn't quite work out his way though. Finally, the video ends with the police showing up to the strip club where J. Cole and his friend are. Its not showed if J. Cole and his friend are arrested or if they got away. Knowing J. Cole though, there may be a sequel video to Power Trip. If so, I'm ready for it. 
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