On the final track on his forthcoming debut album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, due out Sept. 27, this week's MTV Push Artist, J. Cole, shows his softer side on "Daddy's Little Girl." Don't get us wrong, the song is still about an exotic dancer, but this time J. goes into the story behind the stripper (and not just how hot she is).
In the moving video, we discover that "Daddy's Little Girl" was trained to be a classic ballerina but now she uses her dance skills in the strip club. Gone are the days of pink sparkly tutus and pointe ballet shoes -- well, kind of. Ironically, the stripper still wears her ballet shoes while she dances for men.
Aesthetically, the video is a mix between close-up shots of J. Cole and intertwined flashbacks of a young girl in ballet class juxtaposed with her older incarnation dancing on the strip club stage. As the former ballerina hops up on the stripper pole, J. Cole rhymes, "Bet you I can drink it straight/Without even throwing up/She said 'Daddy, what you think?'/Little girl you're growing up."
Toward the end of the video, we see a gorgeous adult ballerina twirling around the stage, leading us to believe that maybe the stripper has returned back to her ballerina roots. But soon we see "Daddy's Little Girl" receiving thunderous applause at the club. She's still dancing. But she's not dancing "Swan Lake." Way to get us crying before lunch, J. Cole.