MTV MVA Odds - Best Rap Video
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August 19th, 2005 at 10:30 by Stuart Heritage
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It’s day four of our MTV Music Video Awards odds countdown, and today we’re looking at the Best Rap Video nominees.
The awards will take place in Miami on August 28th, and all the world’s most vacuous, self-absorbed performers are likely to show up and pout, party or act in a slightly badly-behaved way.
By law, all rap videos must feature at least one of the following: cars, bitches or hoes. We’re joking of course - those are all outmoded images that were exhausted by the middle of the last decade and only the most tired, idea-stricken artists would dare include such redundant icons in their music videos.
Oh, who are we kidding? Here are the latest odds for the Best Rap Video category, brought to you by hecklerspray and Betfair.com…
Ying Tang Twins: Wait (The Whisper Song) -
The Ying Yang Twins aren’t the rap Cheeky Girls - as we thought - but are
in fact two skinny blokes who dance like chickens with amputated wings. Wait (The
Whisper Song) subverts the normal ’shouting bloke’ rap stereotype by having the entire song whispered - even if it does end up sounding a bit like Beppe off
Eastenders gone gangsta. There are cars in the video, as well as either
some bitches or hoes (we can’t tell which is which). Current odds - 1/2
Ludacris: Number One Spot - In which Ludacris samples the Quincy
Jones theme-tune to the Austin Powers movies, and then spoofs the movie
in the video. A spoof of a spoof? That’s some crazy-ass postmodernism,
G. There’s even a little cameo from a Ludacris Mini-Me. And, yes, it
also features cars and bitches. Current odds - 3/20
T.I.: You Don’t Know Me - In this song,
someone called T.I tells us 472 times that we don’t know him. And he’s
quite right - if he came into our office, set himself on fire and
screamed his name out until he ran out of breath we still wouldn’t know
who he was. The video for this is rubbish - rapping on a roof, rapping
next to a car, rapping next to a bitch. If this is one of the five best
rap videos of the last year, we’d hate to see the worst. Current odds -
3/20
Eminem: Just Lose It - In one of his increasingly rare songs that isn’t just him going "Daddy loves you", Eminem just says a lot of nothing while
ripping off a load of his old songs. In the video, Madonna sets her
boobs on fire, Eminem runs around naked, hits on Dr Dre and then
projectile-vomits all over Michael Jackson, who then loses his nose. The
video also fills the requisite cars and hoes quota. Current odds -
3/50
The Game & 50 Cent:
Hate It or Love It - Wait a minute. No hoes or bitches here. Plenty of
cars, though. We’re not sure exactly what this song’s about - most of
it sounds like Fiddy recorded it with his mouth stuffed full of Lego - but it
sounds great and the video looks good, if a bit bland. Favourite to win
this category. Current odds - 1/20
We’ll carry on with the MTV Music Video Award odds
next week, but in the meantime head over to the USA Special Bets
section of Betfair.com to see how the betting is going. Good luck,
homies.
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[story by Stuart Heritage]
