That Tip Drill video is heinous. But, I am not mad at those women who dance in the video. Hell, "ho's gotta eat too." Don't blame the women or Nelly. They are just doing what sells. Blame society.


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VinnyM27 said:

Why else would they play any video?

Thunderbird said:

Political reasons...those liberals...oh wait, liberals like women!

SO uhhhh...what is a "tip drill"

Is it something? or just slang

ThreadCula said:

Okay, I'm only gonna s'plain this once, so listen up:

A tip drill is a stripper. Why tip drill? A female who DRILLS dudes for TIPs at the strip club.
A guy who spends all of his money at the strip clubs is called a TIP TRICK.

Nelly was bound to do this. You always have to choose between being "good" and being "hood". Stay pop and loose street cred or keep that edge and keep a fanbase after the pop crowd is done with you. He made an easy choice. Nelly was pushing party music and didn't have a real controversial image. Its easy to fall into the boring, played out category without something to keep the interest up. Since it doesn't seem that he's interested in acting, he skipped out on going the Will Smith route and took the Snoop Dog detour.

GangstaFam said:

I now can't think of that video without laughing. Thanks, GF.

Sorry to admit that while flipping past BET at night, I've had the misfortune of seeing Nelly slide a credit card down a girl's ass in the horrendous Tip Drill video.


As bad as that was, he now tells Allhiphop.com that he will now expand it as an adult video. WTF

I used to be a Nelly fan, but I refused to buy Suit/Sweat and will fully boycott him if he releases an adult video.


To think I used to believe that boy had talent.

http://www.allhiphop.com/...s/?ID=3568


Nelly Defends 'Tip Drill' Video
By Uncle Blacko and Nolan Strong
Date: 10/1/2004 2:25 pm

Nelly is brushing off critics of his video “Tip Drill,” and is planning on producing a full-length adult movie based around the song and video.

The original video, which aired on BET’s UnCut late night video show, came under fire from various African-American groups and women on college campuses across the nation for it’s portrayal of women.

“We [are] not trying to put it into a prospective where we demoralize women,” Nelly told AllHipHop.com. “It was strictly adult entertainment; it wasn’t to try to demoralize women.”

The chart topping rapper said his video wasn’t a far stretch from the imagery in Beyonce’s hit video “Crazy in Love” or Toni Braxton’s 1996 hit video, “Your Makin’ Me High,” where Braxton and her girlfriends judge men as an elevator door opens.

And while he defended his video, he was clear that it should be kept from children.

“The ‘Tip Drill’ video was made for a program that came on at 3:00 am, when kids should be in bed,” the rapper reasoned. “Entertainers get a bad rap. It’s easier to blame us for you not raising your kids and being involved in your kid’s life.”

Nelly’s latest two albums Sweat & Suit are currently in the Top 10 on Billboard’s pop charts.

ThreadCula said:

Okay, I'm only gonna s'plain this once, so listen up:

A tip drill is a stripper. Why tip drill? A female who DRILLS dudes for TIPs at the strip club.
A guy who spends all of his money at the strip clubs is called a TIP TRICK.

Nelly was bound to do this. You always have to choose between being "good" and being "hood". Stay pop and loose street cred or keep that edge and keep a fanbase after the pop crowd is done with you. He made an easy choice. Nelly was pushing party music and didn't have a real controversial image. Its easy to fall into the boring, played out category without something to keep the interest up. Since it doesn't seem that he's interested in acting, he skipped out on going the Will Smith route and took the Snoop Dog detour.