This part of the music video shows voyeurism. However it challenges the normal conventions of voyeurism which is usually of women, used in sexual way. This music video uses voyeurism to show the relationship of the family and how happy and close they are. We're watching the family from across the street, as if we're watching a movie, making the family feel more relatable to the audience.
In this clip of the video there is a relationship with the video and the lyrics in the song. The video illustrates the artist getting arrested, while simultaneously, the lyrics in the song are " Hey officer, man we don't want nobody getting killed, just open up that cell, let my brother out of jail". This highlights what the song is saying at the moment. You could say that there is some intertextual references as the lyrics are saying "we don't want nobody getting killed",it could be interpreted to link with the issues with the police and young black males in America, such as the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
This is another use of voyeurism, this time through a reflected mirror. Voyeurism used here also challenges the typical convention, as here it used to show the similarities between two supposed enemies, a young black male and a police officer. This may amplify that even though they are supposed enemies, that they both start their day the same way, showing that their both human and more alike than different.
This clip shows iconography of hip hop. The music video shows the young male having a bag of of marijuana and hiding it in his shoe. However, it also plays on this as it shows the police's icon, as he puts on his badge simultaneously. Iconography in hip hop is usually used to show the artists character with cars money and jewellery, but in here its used to show the differences and similarities between a young male and a DEA officer.
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