Earl Sweatshirt dropped a video for his song "Off Top" today and it's the dark nightmarish version of Schoolhouse Rock! The animated video that is reminiscent of Schoolhouse Rock's animation style takes us further into the depths that is Earl's album "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt".
The beautifully disturbing video opens with a police car sitting there with the American Flag as the backdrop. Little balls of fire drop on the car then gather around it and start to dance around the car. This kind of acts as foreshadowing for what's about to go down in the video and it's meaning. Soon after we see images of an animated Earl Sweat falling into a pit of fire as visuals of police and protests play out in the background. Not long after we see Earl continuing to run away, trying to get away from something. I immediately noticed that while he's running, darkness and fire is always behind him. I took it as he's trying to escape the darkness and the evils of the world because the world's going up in flames. Earl Sweatshirt ends up getting consumed by that darkness. When Earl steps back into the light he sees the world for how it really is. When he's jumped in the video, we are reminded of the violence that's currently taking place in the cities and how no one is doing anything about it.
Afterwards, a cop's head appears but he has a pig nose and he's laughing with a mouth full of blood. As the head fades out an actual image of two police officers standing still as they watch a city literally burn pops up. It drives the point home that the police truly aren't there to help, they're just watching the world burn while they add fuel to the fire. It's a different video that's twisted in it's own right and depicts cops in a light that's been proven time and time again by their actions. I agree. And I love the video. Imma go watch it again.
Check the video out below.
Lead Photo Cred: consequenceofsound.net
The beautifully disturbing video opens with a police car sitting there with the American Flag as the backdrop. Little balls of fire drop on the car then gather around it and start to dance around the car. This kind of acts as foreshadowing for what's about to go down in the video and it's meaning. Soon after we see images of an animated Earl Sweat falling into a pit of fire as visuals of police and protests play out in the background. Not long after we see Earl continuing to run away, trying to get away from something. I immediately noticed that while he's running, darkness and fire is always behind him. I took it as he's trying to escape the darkness and the evils of the world because the world's going up in flames. Earl Sweatshirt ends up getting consumed by that darkness. When Earl steps back into the light he sees the world for how it really is. When he's jumped in the video, we are reminded of the violence that's currently taking place in the cities and how no one is doing anything about it.
Afterwards, a cop's head appears but he has a pig nose and he's laughing with a mouth full of blood. As the head fades out an actual image of two police officers standing still as they watch a city literally burn pops up. It drives the point home that the police truly aren't there to help, they're just watching the world burn while they add fuel to the fire. It's a different video that's twisted in it's own right and depicts cops in a light that's been proven time and time again by their actions. I agree. And I love the video. Imma go watch it again.
Check the video out below.
Lead Photo Cred: consequenceofsound.net
(Video Cred: YouTube.com)
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