Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Top 5 Worst Videos of All Time

Sometimes there's a music video that comes along that makes you question one's existence, state of mind and/or level of sobriety when deciding to go ahead and shoot their masterpiece-of-shit. Below are 5 of those videos that will make you shake your head in disgust/vomit/break your tv/etc.

#5 Mase- Welcome Back



Mason Betha.... Boy oh Boy. People were already skeptical of your comeback to rap after leaving the game to become a holy man in Atlanta, the home of faulty pastors. Then he unretires to make this. He opens up the video with a horrible Mr. Rodgers impersonation and then spends the rest of the video practicing his horribly outdated dance moves. Nice Comeback, Mase. Come to think of it, where is Mase? I'll save that for another post

#4 V.I.C- Wobble



This video premiered fairly recently, but was so horrible that it's already made the list of all-time visual bricks. Not only is the concept for the song deeply awful, but the video takes it deeper in the depths of garbage. He starts off sitting in his dressing room, only to put on an African tribal mask that happens to be hanging up next to his mirror, which magically takes him back to a speakeasy-like 1940's environment. Then the camera cuts to Mr. Collipark in full Coon Mode, doo-woppin and skippin around the stage. The rest of the video consists of various horrible dance steps by V.I.C and every 10 seconds cuts to Collipark cheesing or doing something resembling Sambo. Simply Unacceptable.

#3 Ludacris- Get Back



I'm not the biggest Luda fan, so my opinion may be a bit biased. Is it just me, or is Luda by far the corniest dude in the rap game. I'm not sayin he can't spit, but all that hyperbole and stretching out his words just doesn't do it for me. Unfortunately, this video looks like it was all Luda's idea. He spends the intro and the first verse in a dimly lit bathroom beating up some loser with his popeye forearms. I didn't crack a smirk. I was ready to try crack by the end of the video. He spends the second verse walking down the street with a posse of overweight women wearing what looks like old-school flight attendant outfits. He proceeds to tell various animals and girls with animal fur boots to get back. video over. Good show, Luda, you bamma ass dude. I wonder if it's a coincidence that the Album "Get Back" was on was his weakest album sales-wise and in every other regard.

#2 Big Pun- How we Roll



First off, RIP Big Pun. He was one of the most slept-on, underrated artists of all-time. With that being said, he would be spinning or turning as much as he could in his grave (pun was a big dude) if he saw this video. Never have I ever seen such horrible animation. It looks like something off the first season of South Park or a game on Atari, maybe Nintendo, but thats being generous. This had to be Fat Joe's work. I say that because I noticed it had Pun wearing Fat Joe's now-defunct "FJ-560" clothing line, which was in stores for about 19 days. I would've been more than happy with an old footage/image collage of Pun, not this High School Computer Applications Project, which I would've given an F- if I was the teacher.

Drumroll please.......

#1 P. Diddy ft. Hurricane G(whoever that is)- Public Enemy #1



Oh Man. This was a really dark time in Puff's career/life. I want to date this video around 2000, approximately 3 years after The Notorious B.I.G passed. Mase had left to become T.D. Jakes. Black Rob went to jail. His crew that he proclaimed had arrived with his song "we aint goin nowhere" had careers that were doing exactly that. Going Nowhere. So it's understandable that he was a bit disoriented and felt he had to put Bad Boy on his back with this single "public enemy 2000" from the cd Victory.

With that being said, where do I start?! The video starts off with him Driving a lambo down some street in what looks like LA with Flava Flav riding shotgun. This is before Flavor of Love popped so Flav was definately unpopular at this time. He then has some random broad start poppin wild shit and droppin catch phrases about how "nice" he is. LOL. Nice (which im guessing is referring to his lyrical abillty) and Diddy just don't go together. Viewers are then introduced to a shimmering Puffy on his circular dance stage. He begins his painful-to-watch dance moves, but the video moves on pretty averagely until around 2:50 into the clip. The beat drops, the camera zooms in, and Puffy starts spinning around. The "Planet Rock" beat drops, and Puffy proceeds to make an absolute fool of himself. He performs a combination of washed up dance moves with the camera man seemingly putting in more work than him rotating around him at high speeds. While watching this debauchery, I couldn't decide whether I didn't want it to end because it was so funny or if I just wanted to end as soon as possible because it was so bad. Fortunately it does end, and then his third verse takes place outside Southern Fried Chicken, a popular NY food spot. He's posted on his bentley with some Daunte Culpepper Look-a-like and a crew in the back with 0 recognizable people. He then ends the song with the same chick poppin some more shit and then thankfully the video is over. Puffy obviously has deleted this video from his memory, because it's impossible to have the swagger and confidence he possesses with this song and/or video ever crossing his thoughts.

P.S. He did a an all-spanish version and a rock version too, which im sure are equally horrible.

Honorable Mentions:

Field Mob- Sick of Being Lonely
- I like the song. The video's not that bad either, just an excessive amount of cooning throughout the clip.

Ja Rule ft. Ashanti- Mesmerized
- A horrible attempt at a re-make of Grease. Ja-Rule's only fan left probably gave up on him after this one.

Ja-Rule Ft. Bobby Brown- Thug Lovin
- Another half-way decent video, but it's obvious that Bobby Brown was high on Crack the whole time. His Fiend Mouth was quite crooked in this video. Shout out to Anee for that one.

Refugee Camp All Stars- Stayin alive
- Another pitiful attempt at re-creation. This one was supposed to be "Saturday Night Fever." I feel Lauren for jumping ship when she did. It probably made Wyclef but on his life vest.

If you have any other suggestions for bad videos, feel free to provide input in the comment section.

-J. Todd

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aww man how entertaining. Poor Mase, I forgot all about this. They probably actually thought people were gonna accept him with open arms again. Good look pointing out the outdated dance moves. It's like he just came home from a 6 year bid, still stuck in the past.

I have never seen this VIC video, or even seen him. Actually I never even heard of lover b4. But this had to have set us back about 85 years. Shame on u DJ Smurf.

Im gonna spare Diddy, his overconfidence, and how pressed he was to use camera efx from The Matrix...and get on this Pun video. This is just disrespectful man. I mean, Im not sure when this came out but this looks like Super Nintendo. RIP Pun