On February 16, American hip hop artist Kodak Black released a new song titled “Tunnel Vision,” with a music video. However, while Kodak fans were eager to keep the song on repeat, most were probably not prepared for the political and societal meaning behind the video.

The video begins with a white man driving a Jeep down a dirt road with a piece of hay in his mouth, wearing a hat that revises conservative president Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Hate Again.” From the get-go, you can easily speculate that this man is a racist. As the music video continues, you see him go past a sign reading “Hunting Grounds” and enters the area. As he gets out of his car, he reveals a confederate flag sewn into the back of his vest. Racism confirmed.

In only the first minute and a half of this song, Kodak Black laid down a major controversial issue with racism occurring today. In between the scenes, a KKK member who hung on a cross in front of a fire is seen behind Kodak Black is dancing. Kodak makes another bold statement in this scene by openly acknowledging that the assumed death of the white supremacy group is obviously still alive and prominent in America, but reveals that a more modern wave of the belief by representing the white man as the KKK member.

The white man walks through the hunting grounds with his assault rifle until he comes across a black man. The white man prepares to shoot the unarmed black man in the alleged hunting grounds, acknowledging the controversy on white men normalize the shooting and deaths of black, vulnerably unarmed men. The white man discovers his gun is jammed, and the two end up in an intense brawl as they try to gain the upper hand over one another. As this occurs, an American flag is flying upside down, a signal of distress. As the fight slowly comes to an end, the black man takes the flag and starts choking his opponent, which I took as an indication that America is neither on the side of the racists nor the victims of racism, but whoever holds a stronger majority in the country.

The battle comes to an end as a little girl shouts “Stop!” to both men, an inspiring end that can be interpreted to mean that the end of the race issue can not be stopped until the future generation stops the line of racism in America. Many bold representations and somewhat taboo representations of American society with a white and black man fighting, an upper-hand gain with the American flag, and a little girl ending the fight were unexpectedly exposed within Kodak Black’s video. It is usually unprecedented for a rapper to acknowledge such a politically and socially centered problem, but he shines a light on the issue gracefully with ease throughout the music video. Overall, I give this music video an A+ because of it’s surprising abundance of political statements.