And back to the fact that he is already possessed, he enjoys the protection that makes him invulnerable to the storm. When looking at the first line of this part we can see that Jay-Z is talking about that when the financial crisis does strike, he is above the problem. So the break through of the song says that when the storm comes we won’t be here to suffer it. Rockefeller and his family, whom happen to be the biggest industrialists in American History and a huge part in the formation of the social economic world Americans are living in. Rocafella is the name of Jay-Z’s record label but also the name of John D.
“When the clouds come we gone, we rocafella” Jay-Z mentions in the second line “let it rain”, basically saying he does not care for the financial crisis, “I hydroplane in the bank”, here he is basically saying when the financial crisis floods us all he is above water and surviving the crisis. If we dissected the song and looked deeper we could say that it has a pessimistic view on the future. If this were to collapse, we can look at a market crash. We can get this from the line in the lyric when it says “coming down with the Dow Jones”, the Dow Jones is the main indicator of the health in the stock market. If you didn’t get it we could basically say this “storm” that is crashing down is the economy and financial world. Lets take a closer look at this part of the lyric When the clouds come we gone, we RocafellaĪn anticipation, for precipitation. Here is Jay-Z’s rap in the beginning of the song: However, the second character is herself, the dialogue we could basically say is based on this evil entity and Rihanna - like a Devil like entity.īefore I break down the music video I would like to talk about Jay-Z’s rap at the beginning of the song: He portrays as someone who is already possessed and already “under the umbrella” of this evil entity who we could say is the Devil. At the beginning of the video she portrays an evil entity trying to seduce and possess her. So lets break down the song into an analysis and break out the truth of this song: As we know Rihanna is the singer of this song from beginning to end but takes on two roles of characters. Thus indicating that this person offering you protection has superior power than you. when I first listened to this song I was convinced it was about a woman’s unconditional love towards her man, but I was proven wrong when I did my research on the song the song pertains to a storm about to take place and she is offering her lover protection under her umbrella “you can stand under my umbrella”. We have all listened to this song that has become a hit all over the world that many of us sing out loud regardless of knowing what it means.
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