DO NOT TRUST X I was playing with him on his minecraft server and he burned down my house and filled my house with TNT. HE IS NOT A NICE PERSON!!!!!!!!!
As someone right-wing i'm pretty sure the whole outrage about the video is manufactured by people on the right, whether conservative or alt-right. In fact, i watched the video and understood the context and wasn't offended, then i saw people i followed on twitter alt-right and conservative linking to it pointing out a white kid being killed and trying to frame it like this video is racist against white people. Obviously BS, but hey, this has showed me that there are SJWs and snowflakes on the right and alt-right as well. The same people who whined about this are the same people who always complain when some leftwing SJWs take things out of context and being snowflakes, it's amazing to see that some of those people now do the very same thing. cherry-pick a scene and leave the whole contextout of it, then tell your followers XXXTentacion is promoting "killing white kids". Absolutely ridiculous. right-wing SJW's. It's the 1990s all over again!
x: im angry, im also despressed x fans: im angry, im also depressed melon: x is edgy melon fans: yeah fuck x lets joke about his name x drops video melon: yeah, i kinda like it melon fans: system error
I think it was an interesting video. I know he's been alleged of some disgusting things, but I kinda like the kid's willingness to push buttons and make people uncomfortable. Also, I can honestly say this is the first time I've been rickrolled by a legitimate music video
tbh i respect that he's going for a general point of view. White supremacist are a thing, yes, but black supremacists are as well, and it seems x realises this. It's good for a mainstream (or popular, whatever) figure to have a somewhat more nuanced and central position
I feel like if Kendrick or someone more respected for their introspection did the same exact shit X did, they'd be endlessly praised. But maybe I'm wrong. It's just speculation.
true they would be, but that is attributed to their own self-expression. X decided to step on both sides, the punk and the concious, so it does leave people confused what to belive.
jdc37162 He's got a lot of dope songs. As a person (without taking the allegations into account) he goes between being pretentious and being a shit-head. As for the domestic abuse stuff, I'm REALLY skeptical of his innocence, but I always find myself unintentionally humming his shit.
kendrick lamar was in a gang that participated in violence, i mean it wasn't spousal abuse, but like you said violence is violence, why don't you ever have reservations with that messenger fantano. also death grips is the epitome of violence in rap. inconsistent melon gets memed on.
Hey dude, He was talking about Black people aswell... He's saying that you can't just cause unjust riots and bring violence in the name of a cause because it just embarrasses the cause... I love how you ignored how violent the left can be and has been towards the right lmao and just choose to focus on the violent right. It's annoying as all hell.
how did so many people miss the message, im so glad you fantano did your homework. While the video is flawed its one of my favorites! Thanks fantano for making great content.
Powerful video. Deep messages. Pretty clear ones too. It's a shame *people are overlooking what the visuals represent* and *what they means*. I like how the video gets more and more serious as it carries on. *At the end of the day, there's a lot of violence and we don't need that.* We need to progress as a society acknowledge our differences and unite to make peace in our nation. *We need to make an efforts on both sides to unify.* *It takes two hands to make a handshake, the symbol of trust unity and teamwork.*
While I admit that I think it was a clever twist to use "Look At Me" as a facade to secretly deliver the real message he wants to send with "Riot" instead, at the same time the message of "Riot" placed next to the music video is very confusing. Throughout the lyrics of the song, it appears that X considers violence, no matter where it comes from, as being extremely unhelpful to the situation at hand, and that he wishes people would grow up and realise what peace really means. However, this generally comes more from a place of frustration than anything, and toward the end of his lyrics, he seems more fed up with the idea of converting anyone to true peace. Instead, it sounds more like he's come to understand humans as inherently violent, that he's unable to change that fact, and that perhaps he should give up on preaching to the choir that consists pretty much of X alone. Perhaps he even sees this as an excuse for his own violent past, though in that case he should probably start thinking of better excuses fast because he's going to need them. However, the video, as well as the new spoken-word section at the end, don't share that message of frustration and quitting. Instead, it seems to be closer to a full-force attempt to drive the original peace message another mile further. He's intent on seeing this work, this idea that everyone will eventually wake up and stop with their senseless window-smashing. While he only makes mention of one specific black-on-white crime, implying he isn't quite as upset about that as he is toward white-on-black [That may be more do to the video being flooded with direct mentions of crimes like Emmett Till and Philando Castile; this could be something coming from a source other than X, but with that laughable "Creative Director" credit he gives himself in the opening I doubt anyone else had a relevant output toward the direction of the video and its message], he still seems to want us to recognise him as someone who is purely against unjustifiable violence at any turn. He wants us to see him as one of a small few, if not the only one, who is truly aware of this false peace that all the power players in the modern race war are peddling. He sees the truth more than anyone else can, and he knows the solutions beyond what anyone else can determine. XXXTentacion knows that he is the one and only who can [And hopefully will] save us all. Which could ultimately confirm my earlier suspicion that X may have some sort of Messiah complex. He's also very cynical about how likely other people would be to listen to his message, and at times seems ready to quit on himself and just join in the chaos like everyone else. Maybe he's God from the Book of Hosea, telling the eponymous prophet to take in the children his wife sired with other men, and to name them specifically after God's distaste for the people who have abandoned belief in him in place of some shitty Assyrian false gods. Though I doubt this is his actual thinking, it matches up strongly in my opinion. If the people have no faith in you, why have faith with them in the first place? They're all just a bunch of low-life peasants, and X has already expressed that he would kill everyone of that sort if it came down to it. X's anger is righteous, their smiting will be swift and deserved. The greatest threat to humanity is one being caused by humans alone. We will be our own downfall unless we can see the light, the gloriousness of the great idea, the true peace that will save us all from an otherwise-imminent destruction. And other times, X just can't keep his dick in his pants. Not quite sure how his obsession with exceptionally rough blowjobs plays into the whole God complex thing, but I'll keep working at figuring that part out.
One other thing to clear up that I missed: Obviously, his thinking probably wouldn't be nearly as deep as I make it out to be, else he'd have to recognise his having a complex in the first place.
he was definitely revealed over time not to be a great person to put it respectfully, but the music video for Riot itself at least really stands out looking back at it a few years later
I'm shocked by how refreshing this video was. We're so used to people picking a side, and what he's trying to say (I think) is that supremacism is wrong on both sides, because we're all human. BUT, pride in your race or nationality isn't wrong. It's actually necessary. But to act on it and go on the offensive is going to destroy you and your movement. I thought it was quite nuanced. Especially since everyone in rap seems to say the same things over and over again.
I think x was putting the images in peoples faces that they like to ignore. Like yall cant run away from this ,here it is in your face. Look at it. Look at me.
I think it's very important that we understand that there are racists and supremacists in every race. It's also important to know that people can think the way they want as long as they don't act in a way that harms others. I liked the message as it correlates with some of the "skeptic" logic and rhetoric.
Dante LAN-I-ER exactly, he translated the message for his audience, which typically has very little overlap with the audience of the "skeptic" channels.
Fantano is very biased against X and he makes it blatantly clear if you're observant enough to recognize it. its a waste of time to even hear what he has to say
I normally don't like x music like don't get me wrong he has some good tracks but the "17" album wasn't good imo but the music vid was really really good
Anthony, you said the child actors looked confused though I feel like they are supposed to look bewildered, maybe to exemplify a message that racism is taught and is not innate. Or maybe I'm just wrong ahah, love the stuff man keep it up! (also the point about the hypocrisy of his views on racism/domestic violence was really good )
So glad you addressed the "error of pretentiousness" on this. I honestly do think he is "fake deep" and although he may have a message he is trying to portray but I don't think he presents it properly. I wish I could see an honest individual create mainstream waves and hypes that doesn't have such a troubled history and isn't using a shock factor to try to portray an edgy point.
I dont think u knew how accurate he was to his artistic portrayal at the time. X really was a troubled kid, i dont think he was trying to be edgy purposefuly. I think it came from his genuine perspective of the world wich obviously was slightly exagerated. But i think overall his artistic delivery was very genuine to the way he conducted himself and viewed things. With that i praise him but im not saying he was right or wrong for that
With that said i can say he delivered the messages wich conected with his fanbase and he came from life experience not from a place of "i know everything". It was to create a sense of community. The point u made is competely contradicted if u ear his first two albums ( "?" And "17")
I'm pretty sure the kids standing there awkwardly not knowing what to do was on purpose. It was like X was the puppet master and the kids were just going along with it not sure what to expect.
so many people are saying X click -baited us lol the only reason he put Look at me in the title cause this his biggest hit and in the other hand Riot is one of his most underrated song he knew he will get a lot of people's attention thorugh look at me so I an't even mad and the Video presents a good message if you understand.
I prefer the fan video of look at me more than the official one. It suited the song much more. And the serious social commentary stuff in the video was really jarring.
when you tweeted about this music video, it seemed like you had a much stronger distaste for it but your opinion seemed to have changed significantly in this review...
The two that were hanging from the tree by x is Emmett Till and Philando Castile you can tell because philando has dreads Emmett is seen closely beaten and bloodied
If you look back to the scene where the white and black kids are in front of the rope, xxx asks both the same thing, the camera then pans from behind the white boy. If you look closely the white boy sacrifices himself, look at where his hands are and the gesture he does. Hence, trying to signify equality. Plus, the whit boy is wearing all black and the black boy is wearing all white.
