1) Do you guys really move in slow motion in real life too?
2) What's so street about 35mm film anyway?
3) Do you really think those absolutely gorgeous women in their designer clothes would fancy guys who dress up like 12-year-olds?
4) Are you seriously trying to tell me that with the huge amounts of people that are usually just hanging out behind the performers in this kind of videos you couldn't find a person that raps better than the ones who are actually rapping?
5) If it doesn't have a roof, it's not a real car.
6) Why is this a hit?
7) Why are hip-hop groups allowed to - as the MTV protocol says - "depict fire and explosions" in their videos when rock bands aren't? Are rock fans more likely to blow up things or what?
8) ...and the helicopter is really necessary to your artistic vision because...?
9) It's all coming off your royalties, so how much money DID you actually spend on this piece of shit?

Okay, seriously speaking. Some of the best videos in the music video history have been by hip-hop artists. All of the Busta Rhymes videos, for example, have been breathtaking (except the new one with Mariah Carey - it's shit).

Not that today´s rock videos would be up to much either.

Hey,I like the new Busta Rhymes video with Mariah Carey

all hip hop/rnb vids by your mtv stars look the same & just bore me.
unless it's Timberlake.

i prefer rock videos tho.

All the hip hop videos are the same. There is nothing different or unique about any of them. All we see are naked big assed women and ugly rappers with so much gold around their necks you wonder how they even hold their heads up. People say that Prince's videos suck, but in reality his are no worse than all the boring hip hop videos.

You forgot about the Cristal and hot tubs.

Okay, which group was it that made a video about hip-hop video cliches a few years ago? (The Roots?)

UptownDeb said:

Yep. I was thinking about that video when I read the post about Cristal. That was a great video.

Novabreaker said:

Hip-hop videos are rarely "street" anymore. Mainly staged.



Nova hit the nail on the head!



If today's hip-hop is any indication, yes.



it projects an image of wealth and affluence that will be impossible for most people to attain. how couldn't you have known this already?





Well, some of Tribe's and ALL of 2 Live Crew's!!!

Yep give me Run-DMC's "Rock Box" any day. That was some cheesy ass shit but damn it seemed fly back in the day lol

1. Rappers driving in cars, but not paying attention to the road. Aren't they afraid they're going to crash?

2. The same girl in 5-10 different videos.

3. Why must rappers get arrested at the end of the video?

4. The invention of the "R&B Thug" phenomenon: R. Kelly, Ginuwine, Jagged Edge, Sisqo and now B2K?

5. The ugliest dudes, yet the prettiest, most unattainable females.

6. Since when did a half Norweigan/half Indonesian fashion model from Milan suddenly pass as Keisha "from the block"?

7. The Waiting-To-Exhale syndrome in all female hip hop/R&B videos: setting Bentleys ablaze, breaking plate-glass screen doors with Bvlgari rings/rolex watches, maxing out Platinum visas, trashing rented houses.

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[This message was edited Wed Jun 18 1:03:55 PDT 2003 by JANFAN4L]