2.  I think that the music video for this song does
conventions from similar rap videos for
example you can clearly see a large amount of
money and there is clear fighting two things
that is commonly linked with rap music money
and violence. I also think that the music video
does link in with some peoples society but
these are only people that come from bad
places as it links with their own life’s.

3.  I don’t really think that the rap genre has
changed that much if you compare this song to
2pac hit em up they basically use the same the
same convention money, violence and girls. I
would say that the different is that the 2pac
comes across worst then the T.I song as the
2pac song is aimed at someone where the T.I
song isn’t, apart from this I would same that
the two songs are very similar so I don’t think
that rap has changed in the past 10 years.

4.  I think that this song does use some of todorov’s
theory but the order isn’t right it has each part in
but in a different order for example the
Equilibrium starts around about half way though
the video what is T.I used chilling with this mates
the disruption is when T.I tries to get out of
something the recognition of the disruption is
when the people beat T.I up for trying to get out,
the attempt to repair the disruption is when they
throw him out the car and the return to the
equilibrium is at the end when T.I knows that he is
out.

5.  I'm not really sure if this video has a binary
opposition you could say that the man who
attack T.I and T.I are binary opposition as they
are fighting one and other or you could even
say that T.I is a binary opposition with himself
as you seem to see two different sides of him
the side that wanted in and the side that
wanted out.

6.  One stereotype that has been used at one point
is that gangster people wear their trousers
lowly as most of them seem to do this.

7.  I think that males are represented as more
masculine and can get themselves out of
problems a good example of this is near the
end where that man tells T.I that used like
Rihanna there is no way out but he doesn’t care
and still tries to fight his way out where as
Rihanna doesn’t do anything and just gets on
with it.

8.  This is both true and false there are parts when
Rihanna is placed like this for the masculine
POV but there are also times when this is false
as she is placed on the screen with T.I so you
could say that this statement is both right and
wrong for this music video depending on
where you look.