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Black Hippy (Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul & ScHoolboy Q) - Vice City

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I know a lot of you guys don't listen to or like most "modern" hip-hop (ime some of you guys who I know are fr take the lyrics & visuals @ face-value without lending enough time to hear the true message behind a song b4 commenting), but this group as well as their personal catalogues are honestly art.

This video isn't serious, it's stereotypical on purpose, and the song was meant to be a sleeper & was at the time; it was designed to be played in clubs (kind of like rock the casbah by the clash) despite having a positive message and seriously party-ruining critique about the sinful aspects of modern pop culture & stereotypes we all fall into without realizing it.

They are each discussing both their personal sins/vices/weakness/mistakes that they admit & wish to renounce along with stereotypical vices glamorized in pop culture/entertainment:

About

"Vice City” is the eighth track on Jay Rock’s sophomore album, 90059. It features TDE and Black Hippy members – Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q and Rock himself. Cardo and Yung Exclusive (aka Yex) produced the song.

The title of the song refers to Los Angeles (Vice City). A vice is a behavior that is considered immoral or sinful. Each artist touches on their personal vices, but the overarching theme is the social commentary of black culture. As depicted in the video, the vices appear to be money and women (and drugs) —stereotypical vices that are often glamorized in the media.

This is the music video version which has a longer verse from ScHoolboy Q, but ends after that instead of after Kendrick Lamar."

https://genius.com/Jay-rock-vice-city-lyrics#about

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2022

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