- ♪ Introduce me to your bitch... ♪ - Oh my god, that words.
- I have no idea what he's talking about.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- (FBE) Okay, so today, we're gonna show you
a collection of music videos all by the same hip-hop group.
- Oh, [bleep]. Can't you do some Frank Sinatra or something?
- I'll listen a little bit here and there of everything.
If it's a good beat, a good rhythm, I enjoy it.
- (FBE) In the past, we've shown hip-hop artists to elders.
It's been difficult for them to kind of understand what--
- What they're saying. (chuckles) Yeah, I know.
- (FBE) So recently, we added subtitles
to these videos, and we think it helped,
and we're gonna do that again today with these videos.
- Subtitles helps us elders. - Subtitles will help.
I know I have no idea what they say most of the time. (laughs)
- I'm trying to figure out who that is.
- ♪ Dance with my dogs... ♪ - No, it's not Lil' Jon.
- ♪ ...with the chickens like Popeye's ♪
♪ Money changin' colors like tie-dye ♪
- It's got a great beat.
- ♪ In the kitchen, wrist twistin' like it's stir fry ♪
♪ Offset ♪ ♪ Gon' whip it,
intermission, let the birds fly ♪
- Man, I'm into this stuff. I'm into this [bleep].
- Oh, they're getting all that money from playing Mahjongg?
- Playing some kind of game for money.
- I have no idea what he's talking about.
- I have no idea what they're talking about.
Are they talking about prostitution, drugs?
- ♪ You crawl 'fore you walk, you can ball every week ♪
- Well, I watch some of these music videos
and they go so fast and everything changes so fast.
- ♪ Life's Monopoly, go cop me some land and some property ♪
- I don't know if it's better when I can read it
or when I can't. (laughs) I don't know what they're saying.
- ♪ Keep watching me... ♪ - Oh, gross.
- You wanna start moving.
- Catchy. Real catchy.
- ♪ ...wrist twistin' like it's stir fry ♪
-They're making me hungry. (laughs)
- I don't think they're talking about cooking.
Not food, anyway.
- ♪ ...you a dead guy ♪ - Okay.
I'm supposed to say something brilliant about this?
Something to do with chickens and let the birds fly? (chuckles)
- You can dance to that, but his lyrics...
doesn't really relate to me at all.
- ♪ Motorsport, yeah, put that thing in sport ♪
- Now, I've heard this a lot.
- (raps along) ♪ You a dork, never been a sport ♪
- So if you haven't been in a sport, you're a dork.
- Certainly nothing I would like.
- Pretty cars.
- I like their car. (chuckles)
- ♪ Ride the [bleep] like a BMX ♪ - Oh golly.
- ♪ Ride the [bleep] like a BMX ♪ - Okay. That's Cardi B!
- ♪ ...he he go on tour, 'cause he [bleep] more
when I see him less ♪ - What? He [bleep] more
when I see him less? What does that mean?
- ♪ I get up set off ♪ - Okay. Racy.
- Women always have to lower themselves in these videos.
- ♪ I call him Ricky ♪ ♪ He say he love me like Lucy ♪
- Oh, Nicki Minaj.
- She's sure sexy.
- ♪ My chest bad, give me chills ♪
♪ And the left hand on Richard Mille ♪
- I can't really relate to this to be honest with you.
I like the cars, though, and I like the beat.
- ♪ Motorsport, yeah, put that thing in sport ♪
♪ Shawty bad, pop her like a cork ♪
- I liked it, but Nicki's mouth is a little bit bad.
We gotta think about the young people.
- The fame, the money, the cars,
the sexual glory that goes with all of that, apparently,
it was represented in this.
- ♪ Hey ♪
♪ Raindrop, drop top ♪ - Definitely, I've heard this a lot.
- ♪ ...she a thot, thot, thot ♪
♪ Cookin' up dope in the crockpot ♪
- Oh, you're really something, 'cause you're cookin' up dope.
- I'm out of touch with this. I've never cooked dope.
I've never even cooked a hotdog.
- ♪ My bitch is bad and boujee ♪
- I think that's Migos.
- ♪ Cookin' up dope with a Uzi ♪
- Looks like it's just kind of the experience
of being rich and famous.
- ♪ Introduce me to your bitch... ♪ - Oh my god. That words.
- Got a syncopated rhythm here.
- I'm still not sure this is really singing,
but I guess it is considered singing.
- (chuckles)
- ♪ Ayy, wait, these [bleep] watchin' ♪
- Yeah, a lot of them, they're talking about, you know,
the lives that they live.
- ♪ ...bitch is bad and boujee ♪ ♪ Cookin' up dope with a Uzi ♪
- It does have a beat and pretty colors.
- That was very confusing.
- I don't think I really like that one.
The verbiage should not be so vulgar.
- ♪ Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm 'Luminati ♪
- Ahh, Versace.
- Okay. He's talking about Versace, designer stuff.
- Something to do with jewelry this time, I guess.
- ♪ Your bitch want in on my pockets ♪
- Is that real?
- ♪ I told that bitch Versace ♪
- Showing the lavish lifestyle.
- This time, they're talking about clothes and jewelry.
I think I got it.
- ♪ I got white ♪ ♪ I got molly ♪
- Oh my god.
- ♪ Trappin', trappin', trappin' trappin' all damn night ♪
♪ Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana...♪
- Oh, materialism. It's too much.
- ♪ This the life that I chose ♪
♪ Bought out the store, can't go back no more ♪
- I have Versace shoes.
- (raps along) ♪ Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace ♪
- I get the whole making everything sexy,
because people wanna watch it,
I just... don't think it respects women.
- It's okay. Gets the blood running a little bit.
- This was not bad, especially the video part.
I just can't get with the derogatory verbiage.
- I have been in other countries where I hear hip-hop,
and it's always a positive message.
I guess that's what sells there, and this is what sells here.
- (FBE) So that was the hip-hop trio Migos.
- Haven't heard of them.
- I do listen to hip-hop stations, because I just scan on the radio,
and I like to listen to a little bit of this
and a little bit of that.
- (FBE) From the four music videos we showed you today,
did any of them stand out to you?
- No. I don't understand most of 'em. They're not for me.
- No. Just the same old, same old thing
that you show bling and drugs.
There's nothing new about that.
- The first, the beat was really good.
You can dance to it.
- The last one. I like the gold and the jewelry. (chuckles)
They all pretty much sounded the same.
- (FBE) Migos is comprised of rappers Offset, Quavo,
and Takeoff. - Yeah, okay. (chuckles)
- I like their names, 'cause they're totally different.
- (FBE) Three of their singles peaked on the Billboard Hot 100
Top 10 charts. - That's wonderful.
- (FBE) And they still have multiple songs
on the Billboard Top 20 charts at the time we're filming
this episode, even tying the Beatles for the most simultaneous
Hot 100 hits by a group at 14 songs.
- Is that right? - With 14 songs?
- Excellent. So people do like it.
- (FBE) Obviously, it's hard enough to have one song on the charts,
never mind multiple at the same time.
So what do you think it is about Migos that is so appealing
to people in this moment? - I don't know.
I think it's-- again, I think the beat.
- The video shows a whole lot of successful things going on
with what they're doing. That right there is something
that makes you think about, "Yeah, maybe I can do this."
- When you're a young teenager, you're having a rebellious feeling
in a way, it's when you're just starting to try and find yourself.
You wanna feel like you're part of the in crowd,
whatever that is. - The youthfulness about it.
It appeals to the younger generation.
They're more attuned to it. They're hip to what's going on.
- Every young kid, I mean, even going back in my generation,
we all dream of all the stuff that comes along
with being rich and famous, you know?
So that's universal for generations.
- (FBE) Well, all three rappers of Migos grew up
in a struggling neighborhood around drugs and gangs.
- That's what I thought, yup.
- (FBE) They said that their music is based on what they've witnessed
growing up around this lifestyle. - Mm-hmm. I can see that.
- They have a lot of life experience that many of us don't have.
- When you hear stories of artists who have been able
to break out of their surroundings and turn their struggles
into success in this way, does it change your opinion
about their music even if you might not have liked their sound
in the first place? - Well, I'm impressed by the fact
they could do all this, but the music just...
I can't connect with it. - Not at all.
If they really, really wanted to get out of their neighborhood,
and they wanted other kids to get out of that kind of life,
they would've done more positive videos and songs.
- Because they've seen all these things,
they've heard the stories, and they know these things
are going on, they should think about putting a positive message out
for their young brothers and cousins and friends.
- It really does. They're really trying their best
to put whatever they felt. Before, maybe they were struggling,
and now they're okay. - Music's poetry,
and poetry comes from your life experiences.
What's the difference between them and Bruce Springsteen?
There really isn't a difference. It's just the way it's portrayed
on screen and people see different things.
- (FBE) Well, all three rappers in Migos are actually
related to each other. - Oh, okay!
- (FBE) Offset and Quavo are cousins,
and Takeoff is Quavo's nephew. - Family. Mm-hmm.
That's good. - (FBE) So finally, do you think
the trio will continue to make music together,
or will they eventually break and pursue solo careers?
- Well, you know, most groups seem to eventually break apart.
They may be the exception.
- They have the family to support each other.
They have more than just the music.
They have blood. And you know, they have experience,
they have life lessons. Why wouldn't they?
- They'll probably eventually pursue solo careers,
'cause that way you can branch out and do something different.
They probably already have some different ideas
that they wanna put out there to the market.
- If they're having success right now,
and they're-- I think the sum of the three
is greater than the sum of the parts is what I mean.
I think they're probably better off sticking together
and covering a wide spectrum of their audience.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
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- Hi, guys. JC here, producer here at FBE.
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