okay so i smoked a fat blunt and sat down to take a crack at this video.
so bear with me...
okay. so it starts out with her putting the Cudi we see in the news and such under hypnosis. There are two characters at first. A darker figure with fire and mystery and a seemingly more heroic figure who is curious and naive.
the curious Cudi doesn't know where he is but he knows he has something to do. as the music starts the darker Cudi drops the flame symbolizing the beginning of the Journey of Mr. Rager. the entire video is based on the adventure that the brighter Cudi takes to get to a certain unknown goal. but in real life Cudi has issues that he deals with and tries to cover up with Coke, as most all of us know. Thus, we have Mr. Rager, Cudi's coked out alter-ego. That's the one with the gold jacket. it probably reflcts cudi's outlook on his cocaine habit. At first, he felt like he was on top of the world and he could take on all these red/black minions. But then as he turns on his own friends (almost punching Kanye) he starts to lose faith in Mr. Rager and starts to get his ass whipped. The random girl that throws dust at him probably symbolizes the women in his life (his mother, his girlfriend, and i think he has a daughter) and their disapproval with his newly acquired drug habit. She throws the dust in his face as a sort of "Wake the fuck up" which then at that moment Mr. Rager turns around and is stabbed by the more sinister looking Cudi. Although I think it is more of a message of how he went back to the Cudi that he was before. a darker more mysterious Cudi rather than a more public coked out cudi. The darker Cudi is saying "Shhhh, shhhh" as he kills the brighter Cudi as if to try and soothe him into his death smoothly. When the hypnotist wakes Cudi up he is still saying "Shhh, shhh" as if that is the darker sinister Cudi that wakes up. Also, the jacket points to the idea that the darker Cudi woke up obviously. And if that meant that it was the Cudi from before then that would make sense that she was calling out "Scott" and he responded to it.
that's what i got at least.
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