Snoop Dogg Feat Kid Cudi – That Tree (Music Video Review)
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Snoop Dogg’s new video for “That Tree” featuring Kid Cudi is a simplistic, whimsical parody of Cheech and Chong’s drug-induced films of the late 70s and 80s. The reference to “That Tree” is not a very veiled attempt at talking about the one piece of nature that Snoop and Cudi like so much; weed.
The flow of the lyrics are smooth and methodical, but they could have just rapped, “Weed, weed, weed, weed, weed / We love to smoke weed, weed, weed, weed.”
The video shoot is actually pretty fun and relaxed, with Kid Cudi and Snoop playing the part of stoner lumberjacks — probably not the safest job for someone who regularly spark up at 4:20, especially if you have ever watched the television show Ax Men. A forest of cardboard cutouts in the shape of trees surrounds the duo. The two each have their own cardboard version of an ax and a chainsaw, which was a wise idea for the producers of the video to not give the rappers an actual ax and a real chainsaw because the two look very, very stoned throughout the entire video.
Maybe this was just great acting, but most likely the two were in fact partaking in the time-honored tradition of “method acting” by engrossing themselves in their roles. In order to do this, they would have had to light up a bowl to get into character. But, of course, this was all done for the sake of art. At times Cudi does a great job of “acting,” especially when he converses with a stuffed deer.
What would have made the shoot more interesting is if the director decided to keep the cameras on them while in between takes to see what they thought of the creepy men in white spandex body suits who are in the scenes holding up the cardboard cutouts of the sun and the trees. These guys would have freaked anyone out, but would have made it especially hard on people with drugs in their systems.
The conversation between Cudi and Snoop with the director must have gone something like this.
Kid Cudi: “This is some good Kush. I’m seeing guys dressed in white spandex running around with the sun.”
Director: “Those are just extras. They are holding up the props in the background.”
Snoop: “The background for what?”
Director: “The video we are shooting.”
Kid Cudi: “We’re shooting a video? Man, I shouldn’t have smoked so much weed. I keep seeing guys dressed in white spandex running around with the sun.”
Director: “Those are just … Nevermind … Action.”
Cudi raps during the chorus, “Everythin’ I’m havin’/ No they ain’t necessity / Though I’m shinin’, keep on grindin’ / What you see ain’t all of me / Though I keep them hoes don’t love them hoes / The code in which I roll / It’s so simple what I need / You know I keep my fam but I can’t forget that tree.”
Whether or not they planned it, Cheech and Chong spent several decades as the spokesman for smoking pot. It looks like Snoop and Kid Cudi are trying to take away that title from the famous duo as we enter an age that could see the United States usher in more relaxed marijuana laws. God help us all.
Posted on 05/14/10
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