I do this for the culture… because we all know that inane discussions about the objectification of women and who is doing it better/worse, need to be examined in a quasi-academic forum. Granted, part of that is understandable since urban music video budgets are virtually non-existent these days, but my biased opinion says that today’s acts could still do better regarding the quality of their choices.Įven with a low budget I suggest that the directors seek out Don Diva Magazine and their girls of the Sticky Pages selections for on the low consulting services. These are clearly preferences, but as a pseudo-historian of music videos, I think it is fair to say that directors in the past took casting the models and dancers a little more seriously than how some of the girls seem to be chosen today. Tattoos on the strippers/models were also slightly less prominent. Fake/enhanced body parts were not nearly as common in 1999 and early 2000. The comparisons are both fair and unfair and I can easily see the subjectivity in picking sides falling along generational lines. In the ensuing weeks, I heard the buzz from many of my guy friends first. In fact, many of the women were partially nude (as in no bra/shirt/top). The video was titled Tip Drill, and displayed a cacophony of young black women gallivanting around in next to nothing. YG’s song and video are too early to tell what impact it will have on the culture. As I was watching, I saw quite an alarming video by the rapper, Nelly. Trust me when I tell you this thing went viral years before the Internet came into formation. Prior to YouTube, the video could only be found on BET’s Uncensored between 3am -4am Monday-Fridays. Nelly’s “Tip Drill” was underground legendary. Bun B and Pimp C of UGK became a hip hop classic and the video was revered by many as setting a standard in Urban Music videos in part for the attractiveness of the the models in them. You can of course find any of the four video’s on YouTube. Okay that is pushing it, but the jokes/discussions are way too serious for the subject matter. The uncensored version was done poolside of a Miami mansion as well as bayside. The censored video could possibly bring comparisons to Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin”, filmed mostly in Trinidad during Carnival. YG featuring DJ Mustard’s song and video for “Pop it, Shake it” is eliciting comparisons to “Tip Drill and clearly the comparisons are centering on generational warfare.īTW there is a censored version that might also bring comparisons from 15 years ago as well. It could have been somebody that was coming to that bone marrow drive that day that was possibly a match for my sister that didn’t come because of that.So the rapper YG apparently made an uncensored video that have many comparing it to Nelly’s infamous “Tip Drill” that used to be shown at 3am Eastern time on BET uncut, before the moral police shut the whole program down. That was unfairly because we could have still had your conversation after I got my opportunity. You robbed me of an opportunity, unfairly my brother. “The Spelman thing, the only thing I feel I woulda did different is kick somebody’s A$$. Nelly would say much later in a Huffington Post Live chat with Marc Lamont Hill that having to cancel the drive over the uproar over the video enraged him: Women at Spelman University even protested Nelly’s visit to the school to throw a bone marrow drive to help find his sister, who was suffering from leukemia and eventually passed from it, a donor. While he might have thought it was harmless and artistic, we all know that the video caused quite a stir, as many thought the women in the video were objectified and treated as just parts (the focus was mostly on their backsides, which went along with the song’s lyrics). The first time you saw a naked statue did you think, ‘Oh man I’m looking at something or…you know?'” I thought that was very, very, very artistic. Maybe some people mistook it the wrong way.īomani Jones: “What was artistic about sliding that credit card down a woman’s body?” yeah, now somethin dirty there, Nelly - Tip Drill (Remix).i hope you enjoyThanks 4 listenincheck out my profile page on youtube for more good videoz and do. I put it on a show that was for adults at an adult time. Being an artist, your responsibility is to create. I never regret it as far as being an artist. Nelly: “That was a very, very very interesting day.
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