![]() One guy in the audience goes "Oh.huh."Ĥ:20 The video comes to a whimpering, merciful close with the caption, "To be continued." Somewhere in Nebraska, a twelve-year-old gasps in anticipation.Ġ:00 The cinematographer offers a tantalizing bit of foreshadowing by showing us the bank of televisions that will play the same clip from "Step Up" for the rest of the song. Let it go.ģ:04 Cam'ron has also elected to wear a stupid floppy dad hat, though this one is tastefully without chinstrap.ģ:14 Damon Dash shows up. Maybe they'll give you a twenty to go buy some Pokémon cards or something. ![]() You're going to have to give the money back to the props people at the end of the shoot. Writer, in the dad hat, recommences the groping of his balls.Ģ:18 Juelz, stop. The money continues to change hands for the rest of the video.Ģ:00 Lil' Wayne begins to rap and never takes his sunglasses off, looks at the camera, or tries.Ģ:02 Jr. Juelz has been holding a loaner stack the entire time. There is not one shot in which more than one stack is visible. My mom, she said that I should put it in the bank but I think Imma buy a big trampoline and jump on it ALL DAY LONG.ġ:43 Now J.R. You know who wears matching shirts? Youth groups on field trips to AIDS clinics to learn about how dope abstinence is.Ġ:58 In case you missed it three seconds before, Juelz waves his stack of cash at the camera.ġ:08 Hey guys, look at what I got. He is underneath an elevated subway track, which is territory strictly reserved by the New York Municipal Zoning Office for hard rappers who are hard.Ġ:50 What the hell? Everyone in the video is wearing the same t-shirt. Writer raps by monotonously delivering his lines while hunched at a 30 degree angle, hands lilting in half-committed illustrations of the lyrics. We suddenly become aware of how irritating the melody has become, how boring and visually redundant the rest of the video is going to be and how important it is to follow your dreams and work hard at your talents so you can do something special that will make people like you, instead of waiting to luck into a brief and mediocre arc of exposure just because you happened to have been friends with Cam'ron. Look at his stack.Ġ:45 The rapping begins in earnest. He made that stack by rapping and selling drugs and also running this bomb-ass paper route in the mornings before school. End of story, right?Ġ:44 Juelz flashes the stack again. He holds it up, we acknowledge that he has it. Corndogs.Ġ:25 Juelz Santana's first stack-of-cash showcase. It doesn't matter if you're doing lines off Pablo Escobar's daughter's ass. If we see you with that thing on your head, you are at the zoo with your kids complaining to your beleaguered wife about the gouge pricing of the corndogs. Junior has bankrupted his already tenuous credibility with this hat. is seen in three different ensembles: all black, all red, and all dad. Writer simply knows to give the rapper's secret signal of confirmation - adjusting the lapels of his sweatshirt.Ġ:20 The song begins. ![]() They been askin' you ready?" Cam'ron is obviously referring to the tortured chorus of voices that haunt his dreams, rappers and fans alike assailing him with endless questions about whether or not the other rappers on his label are ready. ![]() This is not actually a continuity error - rappers can communicate psychically in times of great urgency, such as when one rapper wants another rapper to start rapping. Writer by talking calmly into the camera while Writer fidgets on the sidewalk many blocks away. Writer, who, in the next shot, has magically teleported back to the wall he just sauntered away from while groping his nuts.Ġ:10 We cut to Cam'ron in his natural habitat: a fire escape. Writer.Ġ:00 We open on a crane shot swooping down from street signs (W 204 St and Nagle Av, infamous for being the very spot where W 204 St meets Nagle Av) to reveal a bland-looking guy wearing all black hanging out on the side of a building. Baby is eclipsed by the overwhelming star power of Jr. At the onset of this video, one would expect an appearance by the eponymous Birdman.
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