With help from director WALU, 21 Savage has released the music video for his song “ball w/o you”. The song is from his critically acclaimed 2018 album, i am > i was.
The video shows a night out of the girl who was disloyal to 21 Savage. Interspersed with clips of 21 rapping the song inside a high-end house, we see the girl out at a club and constantly taking selfies. After drinking too much, the girl eventually passes out in the bathroom and is carried out by security. We are then shown the pictures that she took that make it seem like she had a great night out, when it’s clear it really was the opposite. The final shot is of the girl taking a selfie with her luggage in the driveway of 21’s house.
The lyrics of the song fit with the video as both show examples of disloyalty that really get under 21’s skin. The girl is disloyal both online and in real life.
Loyalty meas a lot to 21. As he puts in the song, “I’d rather have loyalty than love/Cause love really don’t mean jack/See love is just a feeling/You can love somebody and still stab them in they back/It don’t take much to love/You can love somebody just by being attached/See loyalty is a action/You can love or hate me and still have my back”. Basically, as 21 puts poetically, it means a lot more to him that someone is loyal than loves him because actions speak louder than words/feelings. It’s relatively easy to love someone, or at least think you do, than to act loyally to them. Humans think and feel a lot of things that they don’t act upon, and it’s really the thoughts and feelings that get acted upon that count.
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