Xzibit What You See is What You Get Music Video Appreciation Thread

[He Who Posts Well]

Such a great song and an even better music video.



I like this video so much because of all the chaos and fukkery throughout the video plus how they seamlessly fit in all the cameos. The people I recognize were King Tee, Flava Flave, the Alkoholics, Ras Kass, and Saafir. The whole concept definitely fit the theme of his the 40 Dayz & 40 Nights album.

Random trivia about the video

The directors notes from youtube:

I produced this video, which was a lot of fun to make. It was the longest running music video on BET when it originaly aired.

Trivia #1: The red car in the beginning was my 1991 Mercury Capri.

Trivia #2: There is no violence depicted in the video. There are looters, cops, exploding cars, etc., but no violence.

Trivia #3: Flava Flav and the Alkoholiks are featured in the video

Trivia #4: In the looting scene, the guy crashing through the window holding onto a box was our stunt coordinator, Branscombe Richmond. If you look closely, you will notice there is nothing inside the box.

Trivia #5: The concept of the video, i.e., making it look like one continuous shot with no cuts, was Xzibit’s.

Source:

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Classic Video: Xzibit "What you see is what you get" | PRINTMATIC.NET

 

[I love Latina women]

This joint use to get so much play on Rap City.
1 of the best video of all time.
Song was dope too.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Brings me back to a different time.

Getting old

 

[Complexion]

Continuous shots are so dope, Santana's Town used that style nicely too:

 

[Damnshow]

great song, great album, too bad once he joined the mainstream shyt his quality decreased a lot. That man vs machine album was one of the biggest drop-offs I ever seen.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

What in the fukk happened to hip hop?


And a nikka better not say it evolved

 

[OHSNAP!]

Timeless, one of the best videos I've ever seen, period

Shoutin' out No Limit Soldiers

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Back when hip hop was exciting. It’s devolved so much, sad to see

 

[Yung Dirt]

great song, great album, too bad once he joined the mainstream shyt his quality decreased a lot. That man vs machine album was one of the biggest drop-offs I ever seen.

At The Speed of Life & Restless is his best work, Man Vs. Machine was acceptable but outside of Multiply & Symphony In X Major that album was forgettable, once he left Dre's production his whole rap career straight declined...

He had one hot single back in like 2004-2005 with Timbaland and Keri Hilson, I think with the right production team behind him Xzibit could've been huge, X had crazy bars.

 

[zayk35]

He got that Dr. Dre Stimulus pkg...shortly afterwards

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

What in the fukk happened to hip hop?


And a nikka better not say it evolved

It devolved. Let's just hope at some point it revolves.

 

[OHSNAP!]

At The Speed of Life & Restless is his best work, Man Vs. Machine was acceptable but outside of Multiply & Symphony In X Major that album was forgettable, once he left Dre's production his whole rap career straight declined...

He had one hot single back in like 2004-2005 with Timbaland and Keri Hilson, I think with the right production team behind him Xzibit could've been huge, X had crazy bars.

Never heard his first two albums, but Restless wasn't all that...couple of good joints, lots of mediocrity

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Great video made the song even better.

The cameos are great and the concept delivered.

Not even a big budget production just creative.

 

[NaijaRich99]

Xzibit is such an underrated part of the 90's West Coast scene. Dude had heat

 

[Thegospel]

Classic