1m35s: CUT TO POINT-OF-VIEW SHOT FROM BEHIND A BLACK PIECE OF CARDBOARD WITH CIRCULAR CUTOUT REVEALING RICK ROSS WEARING LOUIS VUITTON MILLIONAIRE FRAMES, RED VELOUR SWEATSUIT, HANDS TOGETHER IN RESERVED CONTEMPLATIVE FASHION, SITUATED IN WHEELCHAIR EMBELLISHED WITH RUSTIC UNFINISHED-STEEL SPINNERS, POSSIBLY SPOONS. ROSS MOUTHS THE PHRASE, “I GOT A CHOPPER IN THE CAR,” PRODUCES A GRUNTING FACIAL EXPRESSION AND SLOWLY TURNS HIS HEAD AWAY FROM THE CAMERA WHILE A LARGE RAT SCAMPERS ACROSS THE FRAME.
The presence of the wheelchair in the video for "John" by Lil Wayne ft. Rick Ross – perhaps a nod to the late David Foster Wallace's 1996 masterpiece work of fiction Infinite Jest, which features a group of deadly Quebecois terrorists called "Les Assasins des Fauteuils Rollents" whose members lack functioning legs and are wheelchair-bound?
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