The camera angle following him with all that action in the background is genius and the transitions are just pure gold. Whoever filmed this had a ridiculous script to execute and they killed it
The choreography and direction for this video deserves an award. These continuous shots, no cuts, no edits and Xzibit perfeclt in sync too... To shoot with a steadycam on film you could barely see what you had just shot back then, and would usually have to do more takes "just incase"... Not like digital today where you could play it back in HD. This is crazy impressive. LOL and the director works in the adult film industry too 😆
Not just hip hop, I feel this is one of the best music videos of all time, period. Just hearing the song I go back to when I was a kid and how surreal this video is. The Hype Williams videos were cool and all, but this is something that imprinted on me. Classic, yes.
It was a porn director I forgot his name Xzibit talks about it in a lot of his interviews he said he was the only person that took X serious about how he wanted the video to look
This man's style was lyrical and clean af. His unique, ambitious and agressive style was on another level. He has so many well written raps, it's nuts he didn't get more famous. One of the most overlooked rappers of his generation.
Dude was on top when he was younger lol. Idk you probably dont remember. He had his own tv show yo! It was shitty imo but yeah he was pretty famous for a long time. Right around the same time DMX was around making music.
It's a shame kids now days will never understand how important this man was to every 90's kid. This dude was fire back in the day. Forever one of my favorite rappers.
@@theowoollett1826 hey man he’s still important to young people X>Z has been all I’ve been listening to for the most part for quite a while now I’m a 19 year old Canadian dude nothing like bangin beats and understandable well put together rhymes
This is what real hip hop music videos look like... I love it. Real life, relatable content. No stupid cars and mansions. Real people, real life, real hip hop. It's a masterpiece! We miss real!
kano b I love this video because it was shot in my old neighborhood in LA. I stayed right around the corner from that liquor store he went into. Went there almost everyday. The black clerk with the ponytails name is JuJu lol.
@Jason Haynes. - No he was not, he was not ahead of his time, he was in the correct time line. What you want him to be part of the sh!t music going on today?
I’m in my forties so when that video came out, everyone loved it. It was considered one of the best videos of that year, and if you ask me, it can still hold his own with today’s visuals. Cameos by King Tee, da Liks, all part of the same winning team. Great moment in hip hop history.
Grips of people were there Ras Kas, Safir, Mad Lion, all the others. Mid-City all in the vid. I moved into the area a couple years after this video. But I used to see X and the whole Liks crew all over SoCal like at Unity before that dude got smoked.
I remember when this CD came out. It's my favorite album from Xzibit. As I'm watching the video yet again some 20 years later, I realize what a good message the video actually brings: ¹no matter what is going on around you stay focused. ²Do what you went out to do ³get what you went out to get. ⁴Let all the foolish people around you do foolish things. Don't become a part of it, just go and "get the milk". Fill in whatever word represents your passion or goal is in life and substitute it for the milk. There will always be distractions around you. Sometimes things are not always what they seem. Sometimes they are. Watch all the characters and each scenario again with this in mind and you will see what I mean. Well-done Mr. X to the Z(and whoever wrote, produced, and directed this).🎯
Yo! You are the only person I know that fully got the meaning! It goes with the part that says ..."That could hold his own flesh & bone/And no matter where I go I'm feeling right at home" It was a metaphor for saying stay strong & focused, and was reflected well in the video. The director Michael Lucero (also directed Nexts Butta Love with them having lunch dates on top of the Brooklyn Bridge, another metaphor for how when a couple is in love, they feel elevated above everything else) had a great vision for this video with Xzibit. Lucero was a dope up and coming director that work with artists on the verge of breaking through. He died in a car accident, that's why you see the video dedicated to his memory at the end. He was about 25 years old at the time of his death. I wonder what he would be doing now.
@@RamonExtraordinaire1 Actually from what I read and from what Xzibit said it was directed by former porn director Gregory Dark, who went to film music videos after working with Xzibit on this video. He worked with Outkast on The Art of Story Telling video and other artists afterwards. Here is a list of videos that he’s directed: ru-vid.com/group/PL0QFDUXn1p9QvhRz3as0twfewO7ddYPOq
xzibit doesnt get enough credit for this video. This was waay ahead of its time, brilliant concept and many people have copied this idea and never given this man credit.
@@luckigirl4711 haha I remember back in the day coppin the Restless album and it was a whole play thru, which was key cuz back then I used to b pissed when I buy a cd an half the songs aren't on par with the artist other shit
He was already somebody this is why they got him. But the little man we see at the beginning of the clip I think this is his son that died...Must be real hard..
This video holds the record for longest run at number one on B.E.T. Rap City weekend top ten countdown, beating previous record holder Notorious B.I.G.'s Hypnotize.
‘Uplift, bench press, curl keep the structure of yo temple’ 🔥🔥 too much motivation I can see why they bballed him. Imagine all the youth that workout to this instead of the killing going on 🤷🏽♂️ ghettos be full buff mfn soldiers
I am just here because I listened to this song for years. Not because of Breakfast Club. I listened to Xzibit before his Pimp My Ride show. Dude was always a solid rapper with substance. First rapper to use live orchestra on the record. Xzibit - Paparazzi. Dude deserves more respect, before him no one used live orchestra
@@deuceswild6350 Because "This is America" is a weaker variation of the same theme of following the vocalist with the camera "one take" style through a series of action packed scenes in the background.
Patrick Hannon listen to his interview with the breakfast club. Nobody wanted to shoot the video they thought the idea was too out there. In there the end a dude that shot porn ended up filming it
Music is our spirit animal... ive never understood it until now , the vibration is phenomenal for us to keep fighting life back to keep going , FK YEAH 💯💪
That Flava Flav cameo was epic. I remember lovin this vid when it dropped back in my high school days. This joint and Paparazzi are definitely my fav Xzibit tracks. This song and video are master craft level. Mad props to the X to the Z.🔥🎤🔥🔊🔥
X is one of the rare guys who never dissapointed me,every single album is at least a good listen through, not one track i need to skip in his carreer! top 10 dead or alive!
The attention to detail in this video is ridiculously sharp when he enters the club he hand the bouncer the milk and on his way out he gives the bouncer the mic back and takes the milk...
I like how he hands his milk off to the big dude in the green shirt 3:21 then the same dude gives his milk back on the other side of the room at 3:36. Just thought that was a nice touch.
