What Kind of Video Do You Expect To Come Out
- Thread starter Kadafi Son
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They should spend more money on a video. Videos like the ones Gorillaz put out are high quallity professional videos. I also find RHCP's Californication video great. My point is if you get the right people to do the job and invest some serious money you can have an awesome video. The problem is Amaru is so fuckin' cheap. They don't even invest in promotion.
I HOPE the video has some unreleased footage of Pac performing (like from that Ohio concert), much like how they used footage of Pac at the House of Blues concert in previous videos (Until the End of Time). Plus they've got behind-the-scenes footage and footage of him hanging out. We know it all exists. And even people who were down with Pac (besides the Outlawz) could make appearances... so Fatal, ex-Death Row artists, Boot Camp, Naughty by Nature, Bone Thugs, etc. could be in it as well.
But I EXPECT the video will suck, much like Thugz Mansion and Ghetto Gospel. It's probably going to be just like that, a video without Pac at all and a storyline that doesn't make sense. I thought it was cool that Thugz Mansion had Nas (but on a TV screen), and I was even thinking Ghetto Gospel would have Elton John, but nope. Nothing. Whoever directed those videos should be stabbed in the throat and quartered, with each part buried on a different continent.
This is what I think of all the videos:
I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto - very interesting concept that worked well, since Pac had just died. It was all Pac's point-of-view with a lot of symbolism (the clock being 4:03PM, his hotel room being #7, etc.). However, it was obviously low-budget.
Do for Love - another interesting concept, but it was really, REALLY cheesy and also low-budget. The claymation was pretty shitty, and it reminded me of an '80s video.
Changes - possibly the best completely posthumous video. There isn't much that needs to be said.
All About U - I don't really count this as posthumous since it was made with Pac and it seems to have been intended to have been released before 1996's end. I would love to see the OG video, with Pac performing the third verse with the Egyptian setup, rather than listening to Top Dogg's gay ass verse while he drives around in a chopped NEW BEETLE (of all cars).
Baby Don't Cry - I thought it was cool that the Outlawz used footage from Keep Ya Head Up, but it was weird that the rappers themselves (E.D.I. and Young Noble) were the bad guys they were rapping about, but it was neat that Napolean was the dude in the car who did what Pac should've done that night, letting the girl go and fighting the guys trying to take advantage of her.
Until the End of Time - Another Changes-like video, but with new video effects. I wasn't a big fan of how they tried to make RL look like he was really in the studio with Pac. But it was cool that they used a lot of the footage of Pac recording with Boot Camp when he's wearing his North Carolina hockey jersey.
Letter 2 My Unborn - Not a bad video, but the video concept was getting redundant since it had been used for Changes and Until the End of Time. Plus what I thought was lame was that at certain points, certain lyrics would be highlighted, but the words would pop up in such a sudden manner, and they weren't always words that seemed to be needing attention. Plus this video wasn't released in the U.S.
Thugz Mansion - This is where the complete downfall of Pac videos begins. It's cool that they got Nas in it and also that they were trying a new concept, but it sucked. No Pac at all other than an album cover on someone's desk, just a bunch of people walking around, listening to their walkman. No thugs, no mansions, nothing. At least the video ends.
Ghetto Gospel - Another lame video, but at least there are thugs in it. It didn't really have much to do with the song itself though, and it's not even a happy video.
But I EXPECT the video will suck, much like Thugz Mansion and Ghetto Gospel. It's probably going to be just like that, a video without Pac at all and a storyline that doesn't make sense. I thought it was cool that Thugz Mansion had Nas (but on a TV screen), and I was even thinking Ghetto Gospel would have Elton John, but nope. Nothing. Whoever directed those videos should be stabbed in the throat and quartered, with each part buried on a different continent.
This is what I think of all the videos:
I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto - very interesting concept that worked well, since Pac had just died. It was all Pac's point-of-view with a lot of symbolism (the clock being 4:03PM, his hotel room being #7, etc.). However, it was obviously low-budget.
Do for Love - another interesting concept, but it was really, REALLY cheesy and also low-budget. The claymation was pretty shitty, and it reminded me of an '80s video.
Changes - possibly the best completely posthumous video. There isn't much that needs to be said.
All About U - I don't really count this as posthumous since it was made with Pac and it seems to have been intended to have been released before 1996's end. I would love to see the OG video, with Pac performing the third verse with the Egyptian setup, rather than listening to Top Dogg's gay ass verse while he drives around in a chopped NEW BEETLE (of all cars).
Baby Don't Cry - I thought it was cool that the Outlawz used footage from Keep Ya Head Up, but it was weird that the rappers themselves (E.D.I. and Young Noble) were the bad guys they were rapping about, but it was neat that Napolean was the dude in the car who did what Pac should've done that night, letting the girl go and fighting the guys trying to take advantage of her.
Until the End of Time - Another Changes-like video, but with new video effects. I wasn't a big fan of how they tried to make RL look like he was really in the studio with Pac. But it was cool that they used a lot of the footage of Pac recording with Boot Camp when he's wearing his North Carolina hockey jersey.
Letter 2 My Unborn - Not a bad video, but the video concept was getting redundant since it had been used for Changes and Until the End of Time. Plus what I thought was lame was that at certain points, certain lyrics would be highlighted, but the words would pop up in such a sudden manner, and they weren't always words that seemed to be needing attention. Plus this video wasn't released in the U.S.
Thugz Mansion - This is where the complete downfall of Pac videos begins. It's cool that they got Nas in it and also that they were trying a new concept, but it sucked. No Pac at all other than an album cover on someone's desk, just a bunch of people walking around, listening to their walkman. No thugs, no mansions, nothing. At least the video ends.
Ghetto Gospel - Another lame video, but at least there are thugs in it. It didn't really have much to do with the song itself though, and it's not even a happy video.
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