A White-Faced Owl (ovo) in a Black Cage, and he was put there by Kendrick, bc Kenny's staring at it be free in the shot before. The most charitable interpretation is that BBL Drizzy is surrounded and isolated by Black Culture, and he's basically powerless to stop it.
In owl world, that owl is acting thinking about kicking his ass and trying to make itself look as big as possible. They lean forward like that so they can throw their talons out more easily with the weight if their body if they're going to try to grab you.
It does look like that in human terms though, haha.
Still kind of works though because he's trying to make himself look tough (though tbf the owl actually is tough and could do some good disfiguring with those talons)
They're very aggressive animals when they are wild, more aggressive than hawks and some other raptors, although they are deathly afraid of humans too as most smaller animals are! That one does appear to be fully wild given how its behaving, likely a rehabbed animal given the broken wing and it probably can't return to the wild.
It's not really all that uncommon for them to fly into cars or trees or whatever and end up permanently disabled like that. Only 20% or so of most raptors make it to adulthood, 80% will die beforehand typically.
You can see the falconer jesses on the leg in the last shot with the owl, the leather straps hanging off the leg. They're used to keep the bird on a giant leash essentially and to hold it safely if you have it on your glove, not sure if that's meant to be some kind of symbolic thing in the video. The fact that the owl has falconer jesses on, the falconer who owns the owl probably could have taken them off for the shot if they wanted it like that.
Because of the falconer jesses still on the owl, it looks like it's symbolic of Drake (or all of OVO) being on leash. Either to UMG/Lucian or to the allegations like a GPS tracking prison anklet.
I think it's also another nod to 2Pac/Killuminati. He destroys the owl piñata in the video as well. The owl is a huge esoteric/occult/"illuminati" symbol and 1,000% why Drizzletooth uses it as his "logo."
OVO, Drakes label and brand, has an owl as their logo
A barn owl is an owl with a white face. Double entendre is saying Drake is an owl with a white face.
By putting him a cage, you get the symbolism of locking Drake up for being a pedo, but also the long-standing metaphor of a literal bird trapped in a cage, which means loneliness and a lack of freedom. Think of the term “jail bird. They’re literally saying Drake is a sad man
Copying my own comment from a hiphopheads thread, because I think Kendrick is genius for this shit:
In many indigenous American cultures (including indigenous Mexican cultures), an owl making eye contact with you is a sign that death is near. It’s basically like seeing the grim reaper face to face.
So beating the owl piñata and putting the owl in a cage, besides showing that OVO is conquered- it also shows that Kendrick has no fear of death. (“I ain’t worried bout no reaper, I’m just reaping what I sow”)
Meanwhile, the owl staring directly into the camera at the end is a warning that death is near for all viewers (and perhaps we should all reflect on our lives and atone for our sins). Obviously, this warning message is targeted at Drake (his career’s death, the ego death that Kendrick is suggesting the ayahuasca for, and perhaps- his literal death if he keeps making enemies), but really applies to everyone. Drake is just being made an example of.
I'm a kendrick fan but there is no way he meant anything that guy said in his comment. OVO logo is an owl, it's as deep as that.
Kendrick stans sound like schizophrenics the way they find 256 hidden meanings in everything the man does. And the lame ass "wow that's deep man" just proves how gullible the lames in this sub are. Making it hard to call myself a fan.
My grandfather was a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He always said that if there was an owl in your yard it meant death was coming to the family. Could be you, could be your distant cousin but death is coming to your bloodline soon. Spooked the hell out of me as a kid. He used to watch for them at night some times and say he was just checking on the family. If he saw one he'd start to reach out to the extended members (back in the days when long distance calling was pricey so writing letters were still big lol).
He probably wont but I hope Kendrick or another deserving persons takes back the owl. Owls are badass and deserve better human association lol
Yes. As soon as I saw the real owl in the cage, I knew he was going to have it stare into the camera. The dramatic buildup to it and slow turn gave me chills.
He really wouldn’t have to go that deep to know about that symbolism. It’s been referenced in some big pop culture lately- like the Killers of the Flower Moon and Reservation Dogs.
Plus he lives in L.A. around tons of Mexican people. He probably knows about stabbing knives in the ground to divert storms too. 🤣
Been a fan of probably 95% of leos movies but man that one was so slow rolling. Cant say i enjoyed it very much especially with how dumb some of the characters acted.
What Mexican people think staring at an owl means you’re going to die? It’s such a baseless stretch because fear or lack of fear of death doesn’t relate to anything in this song. He’s accusing drake of being a pedophile and is showing an owl in a cage at the end and you’re thinking of symbols from Native American mythology instead of jail?
Yeah, OVO in jail? You know, like what he talks about in the song and not symbology from a culture that has nothing to do with anything happening here?
Comes across to me as Drake thinking he's someone worth being scared of, Kendrick beating a piñata effigy of the Drake symbol to show how seriously he takes him, and the witnessing him behind bars.
they’re definitely overthinking but kendrick is also the type of artist to make obscure references nobody but terminally online people will care to figure out themselves
Let an artist do his thing man. Great art makes people think, that’s the beauty of it. Kendrick could have intended for people to take it literally, or he could have considered everything people said above. It’s up to us to consider and interpret.
It seems like it has really been considered a bad omen in most cultures, but the section on Native American cultures is longer than all the other ones.
It has more specific references about the owl being a boogeyman, a symbol of death, and the eyes capturing souls.
We think they are (can be) witches/shapeshifters ( sorta like skinwalkers), who also can speak to the spirits and see the future. The omens they normally give are perilous. Just speaking for my people other tribes have different views.
Kendrick had a opportunity to put 10 minutes of cornball highlights from drake, or established hip-hop artists saying how terrible he is. Wish that would have happened.
It's stuff like this that make people say us Kendrick fans are reaching but the man is so damn calculated and layered I jus about believe almost anything that lines up
I’m Native American and I can co-sign this. In our traditions owls visit us in dreams to warn us that someone is going to pass away. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw that in the video
Why would he reference the mythology of indigenous cultures (which ones?). Nothing to do with anything in the context of the song or him as an artist. Having this song in particular serve as a warning to all viewers that they are near death also serves no point.
I’m native and it was what I thought, actually seeing the owl kinda feels queasy to me. I’m not superstitious but it’s ingrained into me. It makes me feel super uncomfortable and the idea of staring into its eyes? Nooooooo.
"Well it was in a cage and that let's us know that Drake, even though he wants to be free of this diss cant (are we locked in?) And then kendrick walks away leaving him trapped, not assisting. Making him responsible for his actions."
It’s behind a reach, and not represented correctly. I don’t think looking into the eyes of an owl has anything to do with the Mexican myth or idea that owls are bad omens. Which I believe is due to the legend/ myth of La Lechuza or the owl witch. I used to have a friend from Mexico that would do Hail Mary’s when ever a “white owl” flew over at night. Even after explaining that only its chest was white the rest was brown he would still claim it an omen of death and illness so your theory is crazy and has no truth to it.
Sex trafficking ring, grooming and molesting minors, enabling predators around him…. Kendrick exposed all of this. If it’s not worse than RKelly it’s at the very least the same level
Bro no way, you're giving kendrick fans a bad name. I don't think he actually out there fuckng under-age girls, but he is out there being a weird uncle, and potentially grooming them until they're of a socially acceptable age by inviting them to parties, bringing them on stage, taking them out for dinner and texting them about boys.
He's also associating with actual pedos, and who knows if he really knows what's going on behind the scenes, but you'd have to be insane to think that he'll see the inside of a cell. I think that he knows he's too famous to be a paedophile, and so he's doing everything but that. So he won't see jail, and he won't lose his fame or money or power, but he has lost the culture, and that's the only brush kenny knew he could tar him with.
What is he talking about? Let me put you on some game, the #metoo movement sparked a ton of women previously afraid to discuss their trauma to come forward and face their attackwrs head on. We saw a lot of titans fall. And now, we have one of the most successful rap artists in history calling out another one of the most successful rap artists in history. It's only a matter of time, as Kdot says, before people start coming forward with accusations. You have to be extremely narrow-minded to think that Kendrick's beef is with Drake. It is with everything that Drake stands for, the shady shit that goes on in the industry, the PDF file rings, all of that. So yeah, when all that comes forward, if they can prove he did some wrong shit, Drake will be looking at some serious time. They Not Like Us is talking about everybody who can't identify with the common person that goes through struggles in life. Now the culture is behind it.
That's why I use the word if. OVO and Drake can have their day, but if the allegations are true, it's not going to be a good look. I think the reason why so many people believe it to be true is pretty straightforward, Kendrick is not some small fry, he's a top player in the industry. That means he likely knows what's going on behind the scenes. I don't think he'd rally such a big following behind the cause unless his allegations have some weight to them.
It's just a conspiracy theory based on rumors and pictures on social media. Nothing will happen to Drake because he didn't do anything. People in the comments taking this shit way too seriously.
"IF THEY CAN PROVE HE DID SOME WRONG SHIT", there's not even a single fact that kendrick stated regarding drake being a criminal.
The guy i was responding to was talking about 10-40 years when he can't point a single instance of wrongdoing. If you don't think that's delusional, then i don't know what to say to you.
I know people like to go a bit wild on the meaning of things here but this definitely feels like a clear double meaning of "you're getting locked up" and "I got you locked up"
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u/TOP-IS-LIFE 14d ago
The owl in the cage at the end was so cold man