Have you noticed rap videos have become cheaper and crappier?

[Paul]

The new Brothe Lynch Hung videos are quality

[Tutlock]

^ exactly. budgets are low, no doubt about it. the thing is you don't need no budget to have an idea, and videos these days have none, just a bunch of muthafuckas on some background...

btw Tutlock, i liked the fisheye....

me too, but it was a standard by that time, kinda like autotune hooks are now . many of the old rap videos were shot through fish eye and it was great until everyone started imitating .

but i agree with you 100%, the idea is what counts . but i guess it comes with the times, most songs have no real lyrics anyway . and i´m talking about mainstream

[Detox Is A Myth!!!]

I agree with everybody who has been saying it's not the videos these days that suck, it's the ideas behind them.  Come up with an original idea and you will make a dope video regardless of its budget.  But these days hip hop is not about originality but formulas because the labels fear there's so little margin for error i.e. room for experimenting with new ideas.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

why would a record company invest money in a music video when their albums arent selling?

[West Coast Veteran]

the early 90's had the best videos and they were low budget..

"nuthin but a g thang"
"shook ones pt. 2"
etc.

i wish videos would be like that again actually showcasing the lifestyle of the city of the artist instead of some green screen room.. smh

[Jaydc]

low budget is one thing, but the quality sucks a lot of times yes.

it can be done right though:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-MrQtOoQRpc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/-MrQtOoQRpc</a>

indeed . i sure as hell don´t miss the late 90s big budget videos where everyone was in a some kind of tube with flashing lights in the background, filmed through a fish eye of course.  puffy started the trend if i remember right and everyone followed. if you don´t get what i´m saying check some ol late 90s rap videos, they were basicly all the same.


you don´t need a big budget to make good videos and films. it´s been proven lots of times and there will always be some low budget films that´ll make their makers rich

Actually it was busta rhymes and hype williams that started that.Check out the video for wooooo hahhh i got you all in check

[Jimmy H.]

Truthfully, I miss music videos more so for the fact that they kept a lot of these style junkies away from making feature films. Now, we're stuck with movies full of music video images.

[Trip Dee]

The new Brothe Lynch Hung videos are quality

yeadat truedat. + devin's new one...

[Tutlock]

Actually it was busta rhymes and hype williams that started that.Check out the video for wooooo hahhh i got you all in check

true, forgot about that one . puffy smelled money and jumped on the bandwagon  . 

kinda offtopic ,but that guy is one greedy fucker. when i first saw "i´ll be missing you video" and puff daddy dancing i always thought he´s dancing on biggie´s grave or on his way to the bank ,lol . it seemed so phoney, the man made millions from his friend´s death

[2euce 7even]

I never knew anybody watched music videos anymore.  Are they only played on the net or what?

good q bcuz on the tv, there´s no music anymore.. all we get is slutty reality shows and wack music.

[jaytee]

Eminem has some high quality, good music videos.

Too bad his music has become the opposite.

[Elkoizm]

The new Brothe Lynch Hung videos are quality

For real.

[EFFeX]

I never catch videos anymore unless I dreadfully turn to 106 & Park... but usually you will catch some HALF WAY decent stuff on BET's The Deal. Too bad it's on in the middle of the night.

It's funny though, on channels like MTV Jams and MTV Hits you still see videos for songs you had no idea existed. It's too bad that these are premium channels.

These days you have to be up at 3:00AM to catch a video on MTV, SMH... so much for "Music" Television

[Okka]

Fuck MTV, it's full of bullshit ass reality shows. Any of y'all remember MTV Base? It was a channel strictly for Rap and R&B music videos.

[BOX5 the best poster on this site yell]

low budget is one thing, but the quality sucks a lot of times yes.

it can be done right though:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-MrQtOoQRpc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/-MrQtOoQRpc</a>

indeed . i sure as hell don´t miss the late 90s big budget videos where everyone was in a some kind of tube with flashing lights in the background, filmed through a fish eye of course.  puffy started the trend if i remember right and everyone followed. if you don´t get what i´m saying check some ol late 90s rap videos, they were basicly all the same.


you don´t need a big budget to make good videos and films. it´s been proven lots of times and there will always be some low budget films that´ll make their makers rich

Actually it was busta rhymes and hype williams that started that.Check out the video for wooooo hahhh i got you all in check

actually the beastie boys used it in the video "shake your rump" before busta yell