Alex Textual analysis #2 - Pete Philly and Perquisite - Self Reflection

This video once again blends a combination of performance sequences with some narrative fuzz. There is a literal sense of amplification as words and parts of lines that are rapped appear on the wall behind the artist.

Narrative fuzz is featured showing a young boy most likely supposed to be him in a 'home video' type shot with amateur-like lighting feautures which are probably supposed to emulate a sense of a nostlgia, seeing as the track is entitled 'self-reflection' Old cassete tapes and a a tape recorder is shown which is a clear signal of something from the past and has connotations of old skool hip-hop iconography. Other effects like time-lapse of a building showing people going past and the artist rapping on a rock at the docks provide something for the audience to interpret in their own way and this makes for repeatability of the video.

Throughout the video, a couple of 'lines' encase the artist moving apart and back inwards as he raps. this is possibly supposed to be a stylistic feature of an old video, or maybe a type of metaphor of him being 'trapped' in the future.

Other narrative fuzz include the 'dated' video effect showing the artist walking through the streets greeting people. A large focus is on the 'North Metropolis' the area of the city in which he most likely grew up in and again amplifies the meaning of the lyrics and also contributes to the meta-narrative in promoting the name of the EP this track is taken from.

The meat of the video is mainly of the artist rapping directly to the camera adressing the audience. As mentioned above, the lyrics appear behind him on the blank background and coordinate in his hand actions - a convention of a rap performance. This is a feature used to simplify the meaning of the track and once again it amplifies the meaning of the lyrics as the track is partly about growing up music and rhyming was the main thing in his life.