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
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.
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.
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
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 😆
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!
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.🔥🎤🔥🔊🔥
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.
‘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
@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?
Rap City count down in 1998 friday nights. This been number 1 on the count down for a good 6 weeks. I still got the album 40 dayz n 40 nightz. Shit go hard. My second favorite rapper.
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
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: ua-cam.com/play/PL0QFDUXn1p9QvhRz3as0twfewO7ddYPOq.html
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.
Lol man I do miss Mid-City LA. I know that dead end, that’s Fais-Do-Do where the show is at. So much happened in that section of the city, wasn’t from there, still cool to be amongst 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 💯💪
![Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest (Official Video) [Explicit]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dz5VzLz67WA/mqdefault.jpg)
hard time on planet earth
straight facts
One of the most underappreciated videos to come out of the 90s
For real bro
Was 99 I think
Facts Brodie
When it dropped it was BET's video of the year. Number one on their NYE countdown. It was very unique. Had the one long shot look
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
They don't make videos like this no more
Ahead of their time I'd say
Reminds me of the verve bittersweet symphony video for some reason
Directed by porn director Gregory Dark.
yeah i was about to comment this video hard af
One of the best videos never to be talked about
I agree I say it's the best video ever but that's just my opinion
this video 😴 no
Xzibit = Extremely Underated
VERY!!! I had both this album,and "Man Against Machine".
Facts!!!
Not in Cali 😂
How old are you? 30?@@microphonechexmix12
You must be 30 yrs old
i remember when music videos actually made sense
For 6 years in UA-cam, this needs more views
Best rap video ever. This shit belongs in all-time category
😂😂
i used to stay up hoping to catch this video on MTV. years later I ran into xzibit in ktown in LA and he signed my sketchbook. peace and respect ✌
man sometimes I need to go back and remind myself how fucking good xzibit really is
Probably the most underrated rapper out there.
was*
STILL RELEVANT 2024 ✊🏾
That's a 5 min movie. Sick.
Without question a top 10 hip hop video of all time.
top100. top10 too hard to narrow down, but this is definitely top 100
No
@@CstWstFllwer Well, we all agree it's top. Whether 100 or 10 it doesn't matter. A classic is what it is
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.
Easily one of the best
I think the pimp my ride show deflects from the fact that X is a GOAT of hip hop!
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I EVER SEEN NO CAP 🧢
Man, early 2000, I had braids and dressed like XZibit in my Junior Year in High School.🏫 He was on fire back then!🎤🔥😏
This video is supreme art.
. Nun all gbb CJ m NJ
Xxxzibit.
This still one of the best videos ever
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.
exactly want he wanted. he glimpsed at fame and said fuck that im staying true to myself.
@@hews251100%. And he got enough money with his TV show to dont give a F!
Its been stated many times Pimp My Ride ruined his career. They were supposed to play his music videso but instead he became the face of conteversy.
Underrated. Better than anything out right now
How does this video not have 100 million views.
Xzibit come back please!
He did - search for his new video (play this at my funeral)
Video was perfection 👍
That West coast shit 🔥
One of the best rap videos ever still holds up 21yrs later....
Hell yeah word em up
Still.
This is America, what you see is what you get
Man he threw it down on this
This shit was ahead of that time..💯
I'm a NY brother and this hit hard.
This is the illest video in hip hop history… imo
xzibit was too good, very underappreciated
Absolutely
Props to whoever directed this. Fucking genius
Gregory Dark
Thanks...we worked hard to get the video done
@@frankturcios6075 One of the greatest hip hop videos ever. Thank you!
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
@@freestateofgrizzy1937 passed away recently... we worked together in making this video coming to life
Artistically this a groundbreaking video.
The first time I saw this video I was mesmerized!!! WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME!!
This joint aged like fine wine 🍷 👊🏾👊🏾🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
😇
The worst compliment ever
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 😆
One of the most slept on and dopest hip hop videos of all time and I'll debate this with anyone.
There are cuts and edits they're just seamlessly integrated with each other, your point still stands though this is a really well done music video
@@birthgravyI realize that. The entire video is still made up of only like 10 steadycam shots.
@Jushwa ok ... but you literally said " no cuts, no edits " 😅
🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏 one of the most underrated .. This track, Paparazzi, Foundation, just a few of some of the best songs ever written!
This song and vid should have a billion.
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!
pdpx7 for real
Shut up
Childish Gambino "This is America" got his idea from this
YES SIRRRR
Soulja boy is better
STILL one of the most illest video concepts, to date 💯
This was one of the best video ever made.
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.🔥🎤🔥🔊🔥
Legendary video
Back in the day when I heard it start playing on TV I stopped doing whatever and watched it.
that beat is ILL .. Xzibit is one of the most underrated rappers ever.
Guy Laham i just commented almost that in another x vedio
Guy Laham E-V-------E-R #AceVenturaVoice
One of the best and most creative videos ever
Facts...was just about to post this exact same comment
everybody wanna be different and original these days so they get some recognition, a bit too different in my opionion. Aint a fan of it
VAN B smh it's still great video
kano b missy elliot videos?
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.
My favorite music videos
Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel and Xzibit What You See What You Get
If you're listening to this, you have good taste in music
Hell yeah
✋✌
Thx bro
If you write (or like) comments like that you are an idiot :P
#FACT#
The time when hip hop was real ...I miss this time.
In my top 5 HOPHOP video list🎉
one of the illest videos and songs of all time
This is my favorite song from Xzibit. This video was just crazy
@Dese, mine 2!! O MY GOSH!! mine 2!!
these are hard times on planet earth he got that rite
‘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
Classic video. Im proud to say I grew in the era where the music and videos were real and had real meanings
💯
Good song!
Watching your video feel like in 1990 im getting old but still listening to rap music lolol
One of the most underrated rappers ever!! I mean us Hip Hop Heads know who he is, but he should have been WAY more popular musically.
Thing is also he's a host of pimp my ride
@@kawaiishibe5304 that is no more lol
Exactly
Plebs: “I didn’t know the pimp my ride dude rapped..”
This comment is under every single rappers video. I dont think x is underrated how come you think so
Xzibit in rap hall of fame,dude is straight legend,greetings from Bulgaria
Bulgaria.....
The real X👊
Still a banger !! X need to come back !!
ROB EASTWOOD EXACTLY!!! Bless us with his SKILLZZZZZZ
ROB EASTWOOD X > X
X is the only one who can save hip hop . Please come back
And your dream came true❤❤❤ legend is back
I remember Xzibit started a trend with this video!...hella people had to have the "one continuous shot" look to their videos after this.🔥
X was ahead of his time on this. THIS VIDEO STILL A CLASSIC
Hell fuck yeah my nigga 2022
@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?
The chorus will always give me chills
I remember this joint being NUMBER #1 on RAP CITY back in the day for many weeks. Always loved this record and video.
Fa Sho ,❤ My Era 🤞💯
Top 10 hip hop songs. Xzibit is one of the best ever MC's from the West Coast. Crazy seeing this video in HD after years.
VEVO REALLY needs to stop censoring songs.
+Ocean Sage MTV, not Vevo
480p is not HD
Ummm...he's from Detroit. lol
He was born in Detroit (Hamtramck)
That chain was hard. X was hard. Not the new stereotypes of rap but a stero📻type of rap
Respect man I was listening you when I was 15-16 living in Poland! You music went that far! I'm now 37 and still this means a lot for me !
Pozdrowienia! :)
@@Pamparampampam555 dzieki
Im from South Africa and when this played the first time i was glued to the screen. X a legend, deserves his flowers and respect
🇺🇸✊🏿
Much respect South Africa
Rap City count down in 1998
friday nights. This been number 1 on the count down for a good 6 weeks. I still got the album 40 dayz n 40 nightz. Shit go hard. My second favorite rapper.
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.
paparazzi changed my life
I was been in 01 and used to bump this through high school people looked at me like i was crazy haha. It’s a shame the pinnacle of rap is behind us
@@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
Word em up
@@adaywithave5254 words of strength G
One of the best songs in hip hop history I miss the the 95-2005 era
1990-2006.
@@alissa6 FACTS . 1990
85-90 was even better!
I'm 46 and grew up in MD. Big Daddy Kane, Red Man, then Biggie...the 90s are gone😪
Dig deeper
Greatest Music Video Ever!!!
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.
and Flavor Flav (PE) :)
Don't forget Rass Kass and Flavor Flav!
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.
@@villedocvalleWho 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: ua-cam.com/play/PL0QFDUXn1p9QvhRz3as0twfewO7ddYPOq.html
@@SoulOfTheSouth Thanks for clarifying this. I'll check out the link. Appreciate the insight!
Accurate
Right
wow this video is a entire movie
Man this takes me back. I am 45yrs old and this looks like any street in Deep East Oakland back in the 90's and still this way today.
Still bump this 🔥
All day long famm 😎
Always loved this video.
1 of the most underrated rappers.
he isnt underrated, lol
Lol definately not underrated.
He is underrated
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.
Tru Indeed...i think so as-well...word-up ☝
Best HipHop Video ever made. Hands down.
I’m back after watching X new video for Kingmaker. 😎 That pose Flavor Flav do against the pole in this video is epic! THATS HIPHOP💯
underrated
This has aged really well.
It definitely has!
This Is America
Right!!!
This Amerikkka🇺🇸
Yep, still relates… it’s timeless
Lol man I do miss Mid-City LA. I know that dead end, that’s Fais-Do-Do where the show is at. So much happened in that section of the city, wasn’t from there, still cool to be amongst it.
Still one of the coolest music videos ever imo
Hard ass video 💯
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 💯💪
Real hip hop 🔊🔊
One of the realest
LEGEND!
When rap was rap.
People forget how much of a monster X was.
One of the best rap videos ever!!!!
Xzibit is always my favorite rappers
One of the Greatest Videos Ever I Use to Love Catching this on Video Music Box....Damn I Miss My Era💯🤞💜
1998 was an amazing time to be ALIVE...( Music was exponentially waaaaay better ).
One of the best Rap videos hands down 🎥👌🏾
easily one of my favorite music videos
This video I'm certain had alot of outtakes. This had to win ton of awards
This video is so nicely done for 1998.
2019 till whenever😏
Honestly
ua-cam.com/video/-Ph7G0uWfFc/v-deo.html
Creative
Underrated lyricist