Do rap music videos ever display firearms?

[trickyasafox]

BET shows some i think. im pretty sure though mtv doesn't. that being said if you dont watch mtv you've never even heard of BET. i like rap. people argue its not music, but i disagree. people said the same thing about rock and roll before i was born there is no difference here.

either way dont hate mtv hate viacom they own everything! huge huge huge corporation.

if you want music, MTV U is pretty good. its the college station. pretty much music all the time. some pretty good stuff that isnt actually mainstream yet either. not all rap is about violence. nor are all rappers felons. yea some have problems with the law, but then again so do a bunch of country stars. for that matter a bunch of stars in general do too, so i really dont think thats a useful comparison

 

[Patera]

I'm only familiar with Wu-Tang music videos (i have a collection of em). The only music video with guns shown is "Careful (click, click)". It has such atrocious gun-handling that it is downright funny (look at U-God as he's returning fire at the LL Cool J look-alike).

I like rap videos (i.e. gratuitous female pelvic gyrations). I'll watch some of them, but I'll only listen to a select few (Wu-Tang, Gang Starr and Rakim, to name a few...). They're what the MUTE button is for (that, and commercials).

gotta go burn me a Charley Pride cd....

 

[Zach S]

You dont actually have to worry about seeing any music on MTV these days. They stopped running videos a couple of years ago. Now its the "reality TV netword". Even for their "music" based shows they dont bother showing a video in its entirety.

They normally have videos going at 07:00, which is normally when I get home from work.

 

[beaucoup ammo]

1992

About the same time we saw .22 handgun in a Guns & Roses video.. the last one(gun) ever intentionally aired on MTV. Wasn't it about then the Washington Bullets changed to the Wizards?

Lots of collateral Brady business went into effect about then..early '90's.

Take Care

 

[jsalcedo]

1st Amendment, alive and well

The Amendment protects against government censorship or retaliation.

MTV can bleep out or blur out anything they want for any or no reason at all.

 

[kngflp]

Rap and hip hop are not the same.

 

[trickyasafox]

wait didnt mtv used to air Nirvana all the time? they had a gun or two in their videos

 

[Phyphor]

It's not a rap video...

But Skid Row's "18 and life" video shows a revolver being used by a drunken idiot teen to shoot bottles and crap, (and then it's used to kill his buddy, hence the "18 and life" title.

 

[beaucoup ammo]

"18 And Life"

Curious as to where this was aired. "Mainstream" MTV which,IMO, has become a venue for Reality Shows and unwatchable mindless pap? Or their secondary and tertiary channels which, in fact, air videos?

I doubt..could be wrong.. that MTV would air "guns" in the context of a rap video on it's flagship.

Take Care

 

[Drysdale]

I think MTV has a policy about not showing music videos with guns in them.

MTV shows videos?

 

[Phyphor]

Curious as to where this was aired. "Mainstream" MTV which,IMO, has become a venue for Reality Shows and unwatchable mindless pap? Or their secondary and tertiary channels which, in fact, air videos?

I doubt..could be wrong.. that MTV would air "guns" in the context of a rap video on it's flagship.

Take Care

It's an old 80s rock video, AFAIK they USED to show it before they got all pussified.

 

[outofbattery]

It's funny but it's the contex of how the gun is shown or mentioned.Lots of non-rap songs got edited too but,for example,Greenday's recent video taking place in Iraq was chock full of guns and gun violence.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Funniest thing I ever heard a rap artist say... "ain't nobody got more songs about killin' than Johnny Cash"



Damn straight.

 

[spacemanspiff]

a couple system of a down's videos have guns. i recall 'sugar' had an old lady showing a small pistol in her purse.

"i got a gun the other day from sako
its cute its small fits right in my pocket"


megadeths video for 'die dead enough', they not only edit the word gun, but they blur when mustaine makes pistols with his thumb and fore finger during the line 'cant shoot straight enough'.

i dont recall them ever blurring the gun in Guns n roses video for, either november rain, or estranged, or dont cry. at least two of those videos had guns, one a long barreled revolver, the other a 1911 of some sort.

the video for 'green jello's 'three little pigs' had a claymation rambo with a saw mowing down the big bad wolf. 'yo wolfface i'm yo worst nightmare, your butt is mine'.

the video for mudvaynes 'dig' didnt edit out the line 'let me help you hold the glock against your head'.

 

[KONY]

Rap and hip hop are not the same.

+1!

 

[MatthewVanitas]

One of the things that got me to thinking on the subject was the music videos on ArabSat. ArabSat must have a dozen channels that show nothing but music videos (Arabic, Indian, and American).

I was really amused by some of the videos of semi-traditional Arabic music, where guys in white robes and headdresses would sing in the traditional style, while posing with their possee, in front of their new SUVs, next to their Bedouin tents out in the desert. A lot of those videos featured Kalashnikovs, but not in a violent context. They were used kind of like how canes are used in some Arab music; i.e. there would be a row of kneeling men behind the singer swaying their Kalashnikovs in time with the music, or standing men spinning a folded-stock Kalashnikov in an upraised hand.

Now _that_ I would love to see in an American video.

The "traditional" videos on ArabSat did lack the booty-shaking of hip-hop videos, but some of the Lebanese videos... Apparently Saudi and Lebanon are very, very different places.

 

[kngflp]

Spaceman: How many times did the video for sugar ever actually get played...had it not been for the internet I would have never seen it,I think I heard it on the radio maybe once...remember that was before system of a down was cool.

 

[aguyindallas]

I cant remember which 50 Cent song it is, but there is a line about a Brand New Sig and a an old revolver....

Something like that. As for the video...never seen it, cant say. I was just impressed to here him say "Sig" because so many rap songs say "Glock" and it just makes me think they dont know any other guns and just sing about the hype of a Glock

(Not that I am even remotely saying that Glocks are a "hype")