#Nelly uncut tip drill full#

In theory Tip Drill was the antithesis of everything one would assume the Black Entertainment Network stands for.

#Nelly uncut tip drill full#

During one of the segments a clip was shown of Nelly's infamously explicit Tip Drill, a video that took HipHop sexploitation to another level by setting the bar so low that even Paul Wall, creepin' like a caterpillar (cuz he's low to the Earth), couldn't pass beneath.Įverything that has ever been wrong with HipHop is on full display in the video, which is the perfect storm of God-awful lyrics, buffoonery, and female degradation. Part three of The Message dealt with, among other things, misogyny in HipHop and featured various video montages to illustrate the point. Now women can decide how they want to be seen, Beyoncé is a fine case in point.Last week, while watching part three of BET's amazing four-part HipHop documentary The Message, I stumbled across an interesting Tweet that sent me back to Tha Liberator archive. The creative freedom is refreshing,especially because for so long,men have dictated what images of women are shown. The internet has given directors and artists the liberty in their video-making, to create without fear of being ostracized by mainstream media for their authenticity. You wouldn’t find Die Antwoord’s videos on MTVBase, simply because a censored version would usurp the video of its punch. Music and videos that the average viewer might find offence, are not officially banned but ghosted. South Africa has banned more ads and artwork than it has music videos. Guess Uncle Bob couldn’t let them get away with what they did four years prior. But in 2010, the collective released Chicken to Change, mocking Mugabe’s stubborn grip to power since the country gained independence in 1980. In 2014 The Zimbabwean government under Robert Mugabe’s rule, turned away South African band Freshly Ground as soon as they landed at the Harare International airport, with no reason as to why. The rapper was also accused of trying to score political points by burning the old South African flag in the video.

The viewer’s grievance was about the slaughtering of chicken in some of the scenes.

Last year a complaint came to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission South Africa (BCCSA) about Kwesta’s Spirit music video. If they create videos which are polarizing, it’s usually for their “strong” tone on politics or social issues. I remember first seeing the video on a friend’s computer while in high school, with a grin on my face marvelling at why we never have such house parties when we decide to bunk school.īET Uncut came to an end after many complaints about the show being distasteful and constituting soft porn. Uncut aired from 2001 till 2006, playing mostly Hip Hop videos with gross sexual imagery that had many teenagers risk getting an ass-whipping just to watch their favourite artists, next to some of the finest booty you’ll ever see.Ī slew of explicit Hip Hop videos aired in those five years but nothing was raunchier than Nelly’s Tip Drill which saw dudes in throwback jerseys, du-rags and Air Forces at a house party that probably had three naked women for each fella in the video.

I know right, my eyes rolled too.īlack Entertainment Television (BET) designated their late hours to these explicit music videos, in a programme called BET Uncut. So bad, that MTV would only broadcast the video with an introduction from Jay-Z explaining that it was a metaphorical death, not a real one. It was viewed as something done in bad taste. In the last scene, a defenceless Jigga is shot at multiple times on a sidewalk. Shot in Brooklyn, New York the video depicts life for niggers in the hood and the city. Rapper Jay-Z found himself in some trouble for his 99 Problems video. Be it nudity, unpleasant language or the depiction of violence in a music video-and more. Dirty doesn’t only pertain to women gyrating their rears in front of the camera it is what viewers deem offensive. Artists still make clean versions of their songs for radio and will have the explicit joints on their albums. I grew up in a time where tracks had two versions of the video, the dirty one and the clean version for prime time television. Bar the excitement my body couldn’t hide from seeing erotic scenes, I actually sat there pondering for what seemed like an eternity, on the paucity of X-rated versions of music videos. It was the triple ‘X’ in the title of the video that got my attention. I’d like to think I’m writing this after seeing the best video category from this year’s South African Music Awards nomination’s list.But it was rather going through a friend’s external hard drive and coming across 2PAC’s How Do You Want It with the brothers K-Ci & JoJo.