{"id":793415,"date":"2019-02-25T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=799885"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:27:45","slug":"j-cole-places-rappers-stuffed-heads-on-his-mantle-in-middle-child-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/j-cole-places-rappers-stuffed-heads-on-his-mantle-in-middle-child-video\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole Places Rappers\u2019 Stuffed Heads on His Mantle in \u2018Middle Child\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/j-cole-middle-child.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/j-cole-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Cole<\/a> must know a good taxidermist. Who else would cut off three SoundCloud rapper\u2019s heads and mount them on a wall with gold plates reading, \u201cYour Favorite Rapper,\u201d \u201cThis Could Be You\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rappers-keep-letting-j-cole-steal-their-songs-724430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cAsk For A Feature?\u201d<\/a> An insane person in the surrealist world of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/j-cole-middle-child-song-listen-783752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cMiddle Child\u201d<\/a> video, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Mez, \u201cMiddle Child\u201d is a monument to the Dreamville rapper\u2019s bold proclamation, \u201cI\u2019m the greatest right now.\u201d The outlandish visual features a journey through dark woods filled with dead bodies and a white woman buying a black woman\u2019s face at the supermarket. Each location comes with its own overt and subtle symbols regarding the current state of rap, race and capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiddle Child\u201d is about stasis and what happens when one of the world\u2019s most successful rappers acknowledges being stuck within his era and between generations. It presents a nuanced portrait of a man ready to shed his insular habits in service of something bigger than himself as he wrestles between the generation that came before him (Jay-Z, Kanye West) and the musical children that used to be against him (Lil Pump). The T-Minus produced song struck a chord with Cole\u2019s fans, quickly becoming his highest-charting single on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 at Number Four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/j-cole-middle-child-video-799885\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Cole must know a good taxidermist. Who else would cut off three SoundCloud rapper\u2019s heads and mount them on a wall with gold plates reading, \u201cYour Favorite Rapper,\u201d \u201cThis Could Be You\u201d and \u201cAsk For A Feature?\u201d An insane person in the surrealist world of the \u201cMiddle Child\u201d video, that\u2019s who. Directed by Mez, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:02:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}