this shit is mainey to me. in under 2 months, this video has over 110k views.
it’s mainey bc of, well, numerous reasons:
1. this song was recorded, and a video was shot, all within a 1.5 week time frame.
2. i made the beat bc i was digging the aphex twin sample, but also bc i thought kanye’s “blame game” concept didn’t have to end at love/relationships. i love the kanye version, but i just think that making love songs is easy, and the “blame game” concept could go beyond that and touch on some real issues folks are dealing with. davinci made a name for himself last year (2010) by dropping a debut album that touched heavily on the gentrification of his neighborhood, sf’s fillmore district. he went in on the subject, and writers/critics loved him for it. he wanted to move on in 2011, onto other artistic angles for his music…but i knew he would kill this “blame game” concept, and he did. on top of that, it was black history month, and he felt like he wanted to get some shit off his chest. “stole from the poor and gave it back to the rich, on some backwards robin hood shit, robbin’ hood shit.”
3. this is the first music video i ever shot and directed. i shot the footage over to my brother to help put it together, so this was also our first collaborative effort.
4. i shot this on my toy camera. literally a toy camera. it’s the size of my palm.
