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THIS LOT IS BEING SOLD PARTLY TO BENEFIT SAVE THE CHILDREN Jay Z, Kanye West and Spike Jonze OTIS MAYBACH 2011 2004 Maybach 57 customized for the video for the Grammy Award winning song Otis, 2011 Featuring JAY Z and Kanye West, directed by Spike Jonze. Chassis no. W240 a Engine Type: Gas V12 Brake ABS System: 4-Wheel Vin#: 4DBVF78JX4A000662
Catalogue Essay Otis is the 2012 Grammy Award winning track for Best Rap Performance from the collaborative album Watch the Throne by two reigning titans of the music industry: JAY Z and Kanye West. The single, from the most anticipated and critically acclaimed release of 2011, features a sampling of Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” highlighting the distinctive voice of the late soul singer. A decade ago, they first started working together on JAY Z’s classic album, The Bluerpint. Back then, Kanye would be up all night making beats for JAY Z; a perfectionist - reputedly “obsessed with the micro details”. Beyond their spellbinding use of language and disciplined rhyme-scheme, Otis is a declaration of triumph over detractors, victory over the ordinary, and precedent-defying success. In his second verse, Kanye actually refers to what they’re doing as “luxury rap”: Couture-level flow, it’s never going on sale / Luxury rap, the Hermes of verses / Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. It plays like an anthem, the beat crescendos, but the rhyme delivery holds tight; ushering the listener into a raucous celebration of the “good life”. It’s an unapologetic track from two music legends: JAY Z, an innovative artist, having sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving fifteen Grammy Awards for his musical work, and Kanye West, whose five solo albums have all gone platinum, and as of 2012 has taken home a total of eighteen Grammy Awards himself. The song’s message is honest, mostly about the evolution of their struggles; from hustling on New York City’s Marcy Housing Project corners and lowincome single parent households, to grappling to remain authentic, humble, and to retain a semblance of a moral compass when enormous wealth and success have challenged every boundary. The accompanying music video for Otis does its part to drive the message home. Released on August 11, 2011 and shot by Kanye West’s past collaborator, filmmaker Spike Jonze in Los Angeles. The video opens with a shot of the penultimate luxury car, the Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH. The two MCs enter the shot wielding a saber-saw and a prematurely aflame blow torch. In the following frame, the perfectly engineered and glistening Maybach is aggressively deconstructed. Metal sparks fly as a technician hacks the doors off, the burn from the flames reflected in the lens of his welding helmet, culminating in the debut of a modified and customized subversion of this symbol of wealth and power. Its reincarnation is complete, a now “thundersome cruiser.” All four doors have been ripped off and welded to the back to resemble wings, exposing the raw frame that makes up the body. A hefty sheet metal body-kit has been crudely attached to the lower-half and frames the wheel-wells. An over-sized exhaust pipe extends from the rear, spewing flames as the engine revs, drawing the eye to the front grill which has been removed and reattached on the tail end. The pair have unabashedly taken one of the world’s most expensive luxury vehicles and turned it in to a play-thing, a muscle car, not for the faint of heart and most certainly not street-legal. There is an indisputable thrill watching JAY Z and Kanye West clamor for control of the steering wheel while hanging over each other, doing donuts under a relentless California sun, with four beautiful women piled and laughing in the backseat. By mid-video, the duo has transitioned out of the vehicle, surrounded by skid marks and clouds, backlit by fireworks, and grinning playfully into the camera while trading short rap verses with each other. The screen darkens on the two against a backdrop of an oversized rendition of the American flag, which is also the cover art for the Otis single, and another collaboration itself, this time with Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci. It drapes the side of the building in the background, lending itself to the ageold American dream, and fades out to the final frame of the video