In the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, aliens are hatching these emotionless duplicates of people in pods that are replacing them in a small town in California. The main character who figures out what is going on has to try and escape the town filled with alien doppelgangers to warn others. I think it was all a metaphor for communism or something.
On this album cover J. Stalin seems to be on the run from zombies, which is understandable, but for some reason he is dragging a body along in a trash bag while on the run. Are the zombies the body snatchers? Or is he the body snatcher? He clearly is in possession of a dead body here, are they both body snatchers and competing for bodies? Is J. Stalin hauling the dead body of a loved one that he wants to save from being converted into a zombie? So many questions! Help me out bros.
There should probably be some music in this post, so:
This is a newish music video from J. Stalin for an oldish song. Many things to lol about here, especially Stalin pretending to be a rock star and him being perpetually shorter than any female in his videos. Is it just me or is the main female in this video pretty gross looking? You can do better than that bro! Nice video concept though, haven't seen many rap videos lately that end in a bitter divorce. Luckily for everyone, J. Stalin keeps his shirt on here.
I still do not have a working computer and thus access to any of my music, so maybe I will write an essay for the next post or something.
Can you explain this album cover to me?
Does J. Stalin look especially egg-shaped on the album cover?
What do you think of the music video?
Do rappers need to raise their standards for women in videos?
Is Memoirs of a Curb Server ever going to come out?
I leave you with a gif of a sassy llama as you ponder all of these questions:
I don't think even J Stalin knows whats going on either, judging by the look on his face. Love the sweet rockstar video, very funny shit. J Stalin is a loon.
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I think he is trying to re-create the feel of cypress village, lower bottoms, corns, ghost town & bordering areas of west Oakland which literally feel like a zombie film with creatures moving around peralta & Adeline that hear but don't see. For example I grew up woods & I had people trying to sell me all different types of shit through the fence as though where a mob zombies screaming to take my life. It gets very odd late night in west Oakland , very quiet in a weird way. So I think he is speaking on this
ReplyDeleteThe cover shows those kind of situations when nothing make sense, you don't know what's going on or who is on which side of whatever, but as ever the confusion doesn't really change anything, if you're in the business of snatching bodies, when life gets that real zombies walking around and shit, you just continue to do what you do. That's the metaphor, I think. Do what you do for yourself and your people no matter what kinda craziness going on around you, snatch that body if he's intruding on your block like always never mind that a dead body might mean a body yet to wake up as a zombie in this reality, just do what you do.
ReplyDeleteNice! A deep and philosophical analogy, Juice Man. I think you may be right.
ReplyDeleteReally feelin the answers in this comment section. Validation that smart people read this blog!
ReplyDeleteThe llama aroused me!
ReplyDeleteWhoa I think Luke might have it. If Stalin just made a few more videos like Who R U? and Show Me he'd breath life back into the music video industry and it'd be like the late 90s with speedboats & hot air balloons once again. Probably.
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