2017 is definitely the year of Migos. I've honestly heard "Bad & Boujee" three times a day since late December and the group’s momentum has not slowed down.

The debut of "What The Price" revamped the forgotten legacy and influence black artists had in rock ‘n roll, but it also made a much larger statement in social justice.

The music video opens with a white motorcycle white motorcycle gang heading to a local bar, while the Migos followed shortly afterwards. The motorcycle gang stared down at the Migos as they were unimpressed with their attempt to assimilate in a white space. Even with the well-dressed Migos in their motorcycle outfits, their blackness was bait for an alteration.

Two heavy-statured white men flexed their masculinity as a warning sign. Offset catches the eye of a black woman across the room. The brief smile and glance between the two reminded me of Get Out, when Chris was happy to see a black person in a white community.

During the deal between Migos and white gangster, the black woman from before appears again and signs Offset to take him out. Which I find ironic because she was the same woman from Future’s Draco music video trapping men and taking their money.

What I loved the most about "What The Price" was that we see black men fighting and winning against white men. We do not get to see that often especially as a heroic act. Black self-defense is an act that white people have historically fought against even before the Black Panthers’ gun activism.

For a short scene, it was the most passionate and meaningful. It changed the narrative of rap music videos by having the fight between black and white men rather than perpetuating the concept of black-on-black crime.

It is a dominating stance that no one is above approach from black men, not even white men despite their privileges. Black resistance in white spaces is important and it does not always have to end in violence, but it is a political statement that black bodies will not stop functioning without a fight.

I noticed in the music video, two members from Migos were wrapped in yellow caution tape, which made the statement they are not to be messed with or wronged. Truth be told, yellow caution tape follows African Americans everywhere they go, especially outside the black community. Other races caution themselves from us by either looking at us with fear, locking their car doors or watching our every move in a store.

I first knew I had yellow tape wrapped around me was when I went to Savannah for a college tour. I asked a white elderly couple if they could give me some directions. In less than two words, I saw the fear in their eyes. The elderly woman then tried to grab her male companion in efforts to get away from me.

Migos tackled the dominating and scary environment of white spaces. Rather than taking the morally high road, their black resistance was the encouragement for survival.