Analysis Of G Herbo's Music Video 'Bottom Of The Bottom'

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The piece of art I chose to analyze was Chicago Hip Hop artist G Herbo’s music video for “Bottom of the Bottom”. The music video portrays G Herbo as a common black man in the Jim Crow era. He is walking past a group of white people and the white woman smiles at him, he smiles back and the white men chase him with riffles and beat him up. Eventually the white people hang G Herbo. The video also shows G Herbo getting wrongfully pulled over by the police. He eventually gets a cruel and unjust sentence at the end of the video. He correlates him getting an unjust sentence to being hanged. Aristotle states in Poetics that Art is imitation and he approves of it. He states that tragedy can be a form of education that provides moral insight

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