Next to the pool, Naomi and Steve stand over him. His left shoe floating far ahead, probably from struggling at some point. Orange, yellow, and brown leaves float above him. “The Boy looks to the pool in the backyard and sees his own body floating lifeless. The first video related to the story, post- Clapping for the Wrong Reasons, was the trailer for " Yaphet Kotto." Even though it wasn’t a song on the album, the trailer has a “submerged Gambino” and at the end of the script, The Boy visualizes his death by drowning: There are some common themes running throughout all of Gambino's work that provide some clues-for example, water. The music videos have been maintaining an overlapping but also separate storyline, where The Boy is everything but a boy.
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In a way, it’s like a movie that diverts from the book. But look more closely. At 1:45 and 1:48 there’s something noticeably wrong with his leg-why? Things are never as simple as they seem in Gambino's world.īino has yet to comment on the revised edition of his script, so we're left to guess and hypothesize, which I can only assume is the way he likes it. (Not really sure I understand the reference, but that’s something that should’ve been committed to video.) The Boy, meanwhile, is put in a predicament where he’s in his father’s room, with two girls who only want…well, the song says it all. The video, on the other hand, is essentially just a beach date with friends that more closely matches the "Crawl" scene from the script instead of "The Worst Guys." Weed, friends, at first glimpse it seems like the most friendly and straight-forward video Gambino's released maybe he got tired of the complex world of the album, script, and videos and just wanted to make a cool video. In the script, there’s a huge party going on at The Boy’s house. Marcus, who is played by Chance The Rapper in the story, just fucked in a steam shower and compares the climax to busting one in a Prince music video. " The Worst Guys" is another instance where the music video concept diverges from the script. There’s also a very suspicious fire in the background.
There have been many speculations about what this means, but my favorite is that the bear is a representation of Gambino’s childishness and the death of his innocence, but that has nothing to do with the script.
You notice that the bear has been attacked at the beginning of his second verse, and by the end of the second chorus, he’s been brutally beaten. Gambino raps without acknowledging his companion and when the hook comes in, the camera zooms into his blank expression, capturing their surroundings before refocusing back on the original subjects.
The bear is silent, blinking, and his head moves as if he was Gambino’s thunder buddy. Instead of capturing that wedding imagery though, we get a Ferris Wheel with only Childish and a teddy bear in focus. Take "3005." The script has the song playing during a wedding scene fittingly it does sound like wedding vows if you remove the morbid and worrisome verses.