D Smoke’s Latest Video Sends A Powerful Message About Ownership
D Smoke’s Latest Video Sends A Powerful Message About Ownership
#Music "<em>Buy land, not jewels</em>" is a "Black Habit" that many of us can get behind. It's been just over a week since D Smoke's debut album, <a href="https://ift.tt/2USIW3b" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Black Habits</em></a>, hit streaming services, and the Inglewood, California MC/singer doesn't show any signs of slowing down. A fan-favorite and standout representative of this new class of rappers, D Smoke follows his <a href="https://ift.tt/38ABvkW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"No Commas"</a> music video with a visual for project's title track. <a href="https://ift.tt/38ABvkW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D Smoke Spits A Freestyle That’s Hard As Nails & In 2 Different Languages (Video)</a> Traveling down to one of the places where strange fruit took root, the bayous of Louisiana, D Smoke narrates the listener through the trials and tribulations of Blackness, while offering game on how to break generational curses and traumas. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bychild/">Directed by Child.</a> and featuring Jackie Gouche, "Black Habits" sets us on a plantation owned by a white slaveholder family. With D Smoke looking like Jamie Foxx from that Quentin Tarantino's <em>Django Unchained</em> movie, horse-mounted overseers and slaves are scattered amongst a cotton field as a circle of African women share a ceremonial dance tied to the song's hook. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BCVf3f5Pgg" width="731" height="411" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> "<em>I'm black as the concrete, black as the street that's lined with the palm trees / I'm black as the night sky when you broke and your bread and your bacon just don't meet / Black as the bottom of Chuck Taylors, Black on some 'F*ck Haters' / Black as the burned rubber hitting' donuts in front of the store where two months later / They got stopped and the cops found a black burner underneath the seat on some Nat Turner / Black as the judge's robe when the case closed, now your life on the backburner</em>," D rhymes while transitioning from atop a horse on the plantation to switching lanes in a cruising whip in the night. <a href="https://ift.tt/2tF1pVG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D Smoke Shows He’s Much More Than A Winner Of A Rap Competition (Video)</a> Carrying us from tragedy to triumph, D Smoke shows the value of investing in items that are assets and not liabilities. The video closes with him finalizing a deal on the very home that once enslaved his African ancestors, which is a dream of many in real life, but as D Smoke signs the closing papers, those words "<em>Buy land not jewels</em>" serve as a stark reminder that the power of Blackness is bred from the earth.
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Kevito Clark, Khareem Sudlow, DMTDaily
#Music "<em>Buy land, not jewels</em>" is a "Black Habit" that many of us can get behind. It's been just over a week since D Smoke's debut album, <a href="https://ift.tt/2USIW3b" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Black Habits</em></a>, hit streaming services, and the Inglewood, California MC/singer doesn't show any signs of slowing down. A fan-favorite and standout representative of this new class of rappers, D Smoke follows his <a href="https://ift.tt/38ABvkW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"No Commas"</a> music video with a visual for project's title track. <a href="https://ift.tt/38ABvkW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D Smoke Spits A Freestyle That’s Hard As Nails & In 2 Different Languages (Video)</a> Traveling down to one of the places where strange fruit took root, the bayous of Louisiana, D Smoke narrates the listener through the trials and tribulations of Blackness, while offering game on how to break generational curses and traumas. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bychild/">Directed by Child.</a> and featuring Jackie Gouche, "Black Habits" sets us on a plantation owned by a white slaveholder family. With D Smoke looking like Jamie Foxx from that Quentin Tarantino's <em>Django Unchained</em> movie, horse-mounted overseers and slaves are scattered amongst a cotton field as a circle of African women share a ceremonial dance tied to the song's hook. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BCVf3f5Pgg" width="731" height="411" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> "<em>I'm black as the concrete, black as the street that's lined with the palm trees / I'm black as the night sky when you broke and your bread and your bacon just don't meet / Black as the bottom of Chuck Taylors, Black on some 'F*ck Haters' / Black as the burned rubber hitting' donuts in front of the store where two months later / They got stopped and the cops found a black burner underneath the seat on some Nat Turner / Black as the judge's robe when the case closed, now your life on the backburner</em>," D rhymes while transitioning from atop a horse on the plantation to switching lanes in a cruising whip in the night. <a href="https://ift.tt/2tF1pVG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D Smoke Shows He’s Much More Than A Winner Of A Rap Competition (Video)</a> Carrying us from tragedy to triumph, D Smoke shows the value of investing in items that are assets and not liabilities. The video closes with him finalizing a deal on the very home that once enslaved his African ancestors, which is a dream of many in real life, but as D Smoke signs the closing papers, those words "<em>Buy land not jewels</em>" serve as a stark reminder that the power of Blackness is bred from the earth.
via https://www.DMT.NEWS/
Kevito Clark, Khareem Sudlow, DMTDaily
