Hip-Hop video codes

A long, long, long time ago some people in our London office wrote this paper about Hip-Hop archetypes.

A long, long time ago, I’d planned on a silly project looking at the different mobile phone allegiances in ‘urban’ (sic) music – I never got round to it.

Yesterday, I stumbled across this excellent video by Thomas Traum. It’s called *Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines, and it’s a composite of codes and motifs from many rap videos combined to make the ultimate rap video.

Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines from Thomas Traum on Vimeo.

I picked this up on Today and Tomorrow. Thanks.

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