No green screens or pseudo backdrops; only a chained (but still occupied?) Pink City, Pill’s OG stomping grounds. No actors or models, but all authentic individuals who happened to be around during the time of the filming. That includes homie showcasing the buck-fifty wound across his stomach. The broad droppin’ it like it’s hot right there on the sidewalk. The serving & blunt rolling. The junkie walking around with a flourescent light bulb, torturing the whole set. The other fiend firing up right in front of the camera.
No glamor or gloss, only genuine. Raw footage, individuals and music.
At the end of the video, you’ll realize that Pill (along with directors The Motion Family) managed to give visual to the tragic comedy that is the hood.
Download — Pill & DJ Burn One – 4180: The Prescription
Previously Posted — Video: Fader TV With Pill | Video: “Welcome To Pink City”
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I like his rap name better than his music.
That’s just me tho.
^ I actually like this track… hopefully the mixtape shows more depth.
This sure is one ghetto ass video.
This sure is one ghetto ass video.
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The beauty of it.
Or shall we be subjected to more Khaled videos?
^ Hahahaa
Nah, don’t get it twisted, I’m quite fond of the hood. It’s where I feel the most comfy, but damn. It’s like, where were the normal people in that video? lol Everyone was either fucked up or doing some fucked up shit lol.
“We hope that this video shocks your conscience. If it does, we have succeeded in our goal. The fact that this video is nearly terrifying in its graphic nature means that it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do – terrify. These conditions that our people live in are terrifying, and we seek to expose what so many have forgotten.
We are essentially reporting live from neighborhoods and communities long forgotten, and, in Atlanta, recently torn down. It seems as though our city and our people place no importance on our community any longer. These are the places you never visit. These are the places that hip-hop claims to care about. These are the people that most of gangsta rap music fraudulently portrays. This video is one hundred percent real and unstaged.
You can try to chock this up as exploitation – it will not work. Nobody was put up to any scene in this video. As a matter of fact, everybody in the video volunteered themselves, for the sake of our mission.
The song has an upbeat and happy tone. When you’re in these situations, you do not feel as though what you are doing is wrong. When you are making money in the underground economy, it does not feel wrong. Our goal is to reflect the psychology of someone who turned to drug dealing as a means of survival, and got caught up with the addiction of making money in the underworld.
Pill still lives in this situation, and we will continue to kick, scream, and make music until we can provide a better way. Until then, we will continue to expose our truths.
Our mission is to bring REALITY back to street music. I hope this a first step towards accomplishing our goal.
Sincerely,
The Educated Villains”
Thank you Chief!
On another note. What y’all think of the Rapidshare thing? Is it gonna go down?
ok, aside from that “newestest topic on tss” post I just made with the maxwell. i’m feeling this track and moreso the video for the realism. Personally, the rappin could be stepped up, but u gotta respect this.
I get the message behind the clip, but I still feel it’s kinda exploitive, just based on the fact that everybody in the hood isn’t messed up, slangin’ rock or strung out. If they wanted to depict realism, show some of the positive aspects of the hood too.
“These are the people that most of gangsta rap music fraudulently portrays.”
And how is this video any different?
Coming out of Killer Mike’s camp, I’d like to see some real social commentary from this cat, not just a couple paragraphs tacked on to the end of a video.
As far as RS. Eh, I’ve been gettin a lil sketchy bout uploads anymore with the headlines the past few months. As a dl’er, I think ur still pretty free, cuz their privacy policy states they don’t keep record of that. Not too much that is not sanctioned by the artist is not renamed/rar’d up and sometimes pw’d to some crazy stuff already. The courts are asking RS to filter things that are impossible to do @ 100%. RS already responds to takedown requests. These sometimes come after an Artist has done the drop.
That secret multi-nation ACTA stuff, is pretty scary though. Read up on it, wikileaks etc. I’m more scared of that than these lil RS rulings. Hopefully, this coalition can make a difference:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/transatlantic-coalition-calls-for-halt-to-acta-talks.ars
No thank you.
I agree and see ur point Amp.
“I get the message behind the clip, but I still feel it’s kinda exploitive, just based on the fact that everybody in the hood isn’t messed up, slangin’ rock or strung out. If they wanted to depict realism, show some of the positive aspects of the hood too.”
In that same sense, though, a song is only 4 mins or so and has a theme. It can’t be truly depictive of the whole BIG picture.
Eh, the lil bs commentary trying to make a big monumental point, didn’t really jive or have anything to do with my opinion of the orig vid. Oh and N.I.G.G.A. meant “never ignorant and getting goals accomplished” too right? I said get the fuck outta here then, and I say again.
In that same sense, though, a song is only 4 mins or so and has a theme. It can’t be truly depictive of the whole BIG picture.
Eh, the lil bs commentary trying to make a big monumental point, didn’t really jive or have anything to do with my opinion of the orig vid.
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I mulled these two points over in my head for a minute before commenting, but that write up sealed the deal for me. If it’s a trap clip, say it’s a trap clip, but to try & say this is anything other then that is insulting my (limited) intelligence.
ok, I guess we agree. Except for the writeup, I didn’t take anything that hit me saying “this is the full picture of the hood” and u did.
It is a lil ghetto-ass hood video, but its done well. And it captures more “real life” than most hiphop videos.
The rappin is weak, beat ok, but they did come with a nice vid that “keeps it real” more than most was my only point.
Except for the writeup, I didn’t take anything that hit me saying “this is the full picture of the hood” and u did.
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I did? Really?
All I said is that it’s a ghetto ass video and that fact still remains. I actually like the video, but it is what it is. Ghetto doesn’t neccesarily mean bad. It just means ghetto.
My point was, they coulda thrown at least one normal cat buying a pack of Newports or something. Nearly everyone in that video is a hot ghetto mess. Either that was by design or Atlanta is way more fucked up then I ever imagined.
my assumption of this:
“but that write up sealed the deal for me. If it’s a trap clip, say it’s a trap clip, but to try & say this is anything other then that is insulting my (limited) intelligence.”
I came away from the writeup with, this is a “trap clip”, nothin more or less and you saw somethin else. Somebody buyin ports, are u serious?!! The newport sign is pretty prevelant throughout; how many damn port references do we need before its an all out “alive with pleasure” ad?
how many damn port references do we need before its an all out “alive with pleasure” ad?
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LOL Admittedly not the best example, but you get my point.
I’m just saying the hood is rough, but Pill’s hood looks ROUGH. Show some kids playing in an open hydrant or something. There are beautiful elements to the hood as well, and even if it was only one frame, it would’ve been more representative of the “Real” ghetto.
I understand why the video is the way it is and I can appreciate it as such, but that writeup goes out of it’s way to highlight some kind of social awareness that’s not really there.
@ Fonz, I think they gone use it as the inroads to start charging for uploads.
Pause on this next one.
I’m a bit of an aviator lens enthusiast. Does anyone know what shades Pill had on in that vid?
LMAO!! That is by far the most ig-nit nigga shit I’ve ever seen. LOL As a fellow nigga on the westside of Atlanta, it is what it is. We should show Oprah this video and see if she’s still worried bout niggas eatin chicken.
@ amp, the whole point of the video is to show the BAD aspect of the hood. Anyone glorifying the ghetto or trying to show any “positive” aspects of living in the ghetto are ignant.
Pill’s video was a bullseye. It was a well done video and the beat is solid. It goes REAL hard in the ride.
Yeah, there are positive things happening in the ghetto…..but why bring attention to them when most should be focusing on what is bad in the ghetto so that the bad can be changed.
trap goin ham
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