Keeferfer Reacts: clipping. - Blood of the Fang

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[@mat145395]

thanks you, quality reaction, ive been looking for a proper reaction to this for a while

[@Schpiedehl]

Great analysis!
There are a lot of bizarre inaccuracies in the lyric video that make it more difficult to interpret, I think - like “Anne Marie” should be Emory, as in Emory Douglass, who was the illustrator for the Black Panther newspaper, and “Kathleen ‘black and beautiful’ is a model” should be “as the motto.” A more interesting one is “the highness” should be the “Ina,” as in the Vampires from Octavia Butler’s Fledgeling, which uses the metaphor of vampirism to examine themes of race (etc)

[@ericaperez6287]

Hell yes, I knew you'd like this song. Thank you for this reaction! So the group clipping. is Daveed and 2 producers. They have an experimental industrial production style. I think you would also like "Nothing is Safe" and " Pain Everyday" by them. The sample is from the song " Blood of the Thing" from the 1973 vampire movie " Ganja and Hess." So he's saying the Black Panthers are not dead, they are vampires and are coming back for blood. It's a metaphor for exactly what you said, it's the movement that will never die. There is another song on this album, "He Dead" where he calls cops werewolves, the enemy of the vampire.
Some of the lyrics on this video were hilariously wrong. It said " Afeni here with vodka" but it should be " Afeni here with Pac, yeah, thug life" It wasn't "Asada sipping a bloody chemical bottle "(WTF? 😆), its "Assata up in here sippin' a bloody cafe cubano" Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army and briefly the Black Panther Party, she was involved in a shoot out with the police and was wrongfully convicted of murdering a cop. She escaped prison and was granted political asylum in Cuba. She is on the FBI's Most wanted list still. Sa-Roc's real name is also Assata, in "40 and a Mule" she said "Named Assata, makes sense I'ma be the most wanted"
It's really worth looking up all the names in this song, but this comment is long enough. Peace!

[@Keeferfer]

Haha love the long comments. I'm gonna start a weekly comment series too. 👀

[@seamusobrian9050]

Would love to see some more clipping

[@Keeferfer]

Noted. 💪🏽

[@someoneirrelevant146]

Wow i really appreciate you giving your own commentary and reading and thinking about the lyrics, great reaction! Do more clipping

[@WebsterA]

4:06
I see that written on other interpretations as, "Dice a Ofay like confetti"
Which makes a shit load more sense.
Killer reaction.
Killer track
Brings back PE vibes.
Clipping is the absolute SHIT.
Best rap out there imo

[@Keeferfer]

I'd love some sort of new school iteration of PE. We need more diversity of thought in the hip-hop mainstream for sure. I know there's good shit in the underground.

[@melsotelo5109]

This song I also a horror song its the black Panthers are portrayed as a vampire coven. So they were all actually there so they had been preparing for war since the 60's. Elsewhere on this album they have police being werewolves hunting down someone as a pack the songs don't all connect but it was made as a horror concept album.

[@Keeferfer]

ahhhhhh puts it in perspective. i'm guessing i need to listen to the whole project

[@wwklnd]

I really like the "You was born to be a martyr and it doesn't mean a thing because that body really meat" line, it feels like it ties into Huey P. Newton's autobiography "Revolutionary Suicide" (which is an amazing read). From the book:
“Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.”

[@Keeferfer]

Thanks for this insight man. I gotta pick that book up.

[@wwklnd]

@@Keeferfer It's extremely good, and pretty short and easy to read too!

[@guywhoisnotbob]

Wow

[@619Gotenks]

Great reaction but the lyrics are a little wrong. He actually says "dice an ofay like confetti." Ofay is a derogatory term for a white person, or in this case, the pigs.