Naturally Born Strangers, clip from video "Jameson Ave" (2016) (GIF by the author for Hyperallergic)
With their art work of bacchanalian revelry and swaggery Dionysus, historic Masters like Caravaggio, Poussin, and Rubens have been a bit like the hip-hop videographers of their day. at least, that's what Toronto-based mostly rap trio Naturally Born Strangers suggests in their new tune video for the track "Jameson Ave," a track about getting "inebriated and disorderly, chasing ass."
Directed via RT!, the video gives a hip-hop update to historic master artworks: shots of drunken partygoers are reimagined as Baroque artwork come to lifestyles. A scene of a naked woman inclined on a crowded table echoes the composition of Leonardo da Vinci's "The last Supper"; topless dancers floating amongst clouds and marble columns consider the "remaining Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel. The hook "seize me on the corner of Jameson Ave./ under the influence of alcohol and disorderly, chasing ass" is spoken right here via rappers prosperous Kidd, Tona, and Adam Bomb, nonetheless it could just as readily had been said via this creepy satyr giving a piggy-returned ride to a nymph (1627) or wino Bacchus himself. And when the hungover narrator chants, "Bitch, gimme my sunglasses and Advil," well, it's not challenging to listen to these phrases coming from this pushy nude guy in a wreath.
It's not the first undertaking to connect hip-hop and artwork history. dressmaker Cecilia Azcarate, on her weblog B4XVI (which stands for "earlier than the 16th century"), pairs images of rappers with historic sculptures, art work, and statues from the Metropolitan Museum of artwork's collection. The visual similarities are uncanny: sizzling Sugar looks like a child-faced Jesus, a fur-clad Kanye West naturally copped the fashion of a young man in a sixteenth-century northern German portray.
Naturally Born Killers, nonetheless from video for "Jameson Ave" (2016) (all screenshots via the creator for Hyperallergic)
With its drained "bitch/slut" refrain, "Jameson Ave" lamentably rehashes the misogynistic tropes for which a lot of rap movies have been criticized during the past — but it surely presents a clean spin on the genre with its inadvertent reminder that, like it or not, these are tropes as ancient as time, as pervasive in "highbrow" artwork historical past classes as they're in pop song.
Naturally Born Killers, still from video for "Jameson Ave" (2016)
Naturally Born Killers, nevertheless from video for "Jameson Ave" (2016)
Naturally Born Killers, still from video for "Jameson Ave" (2016)
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