“We The Best”? – DJ Khaled’s “I’m So Hood” Remix Video
GENERAL By TSSCrew on November 13, 2007 at 12:44 pmWords By Matthew Mundy
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DJ Khaled – I’m So Hood (Remix) Video
It’s rare that I’ll stumble across something so atrocious, so execrable in every way, that I am compelled to write about it. It is even rarer still that DJ Khaled, an irrelevant, screeching hyena of a man with no clear talents of his own (aside from being able to coerce every single rapper below the Mason-Dixon to appear on his songs, the vast majority of which are not even produced by him), would elicit such strong feelings from me.
The piece of wretched, abominable art that was able to wrench a string of hyperbole and venom out of me is – drum roll, please – the video for ‘I’m So Hood’ remix.
Now, I love this song — featuring no less than eight rappers and one vocoder-voiced hook machine, it’s a posse cut par excellence. The video itself boasts, aside from the assorted talent involved in the song itself, a stunning array of guest spots, including E-40, Bushwick Bill (!!!), DJ Drama, Slim Thug, Joell Ortiz, and others.
What could go wrong?
The answer, my friends, is everything.
1. DJ Khaled - Now, his intros have long launched themselves past parody, making Jazze Pha’s look positively brief and rational by comparison. This one is a special one though. First, he looks absolutely ridiculous, parading his bizarrely shaped frame around as he attempts to trump his previous hand gestures with even more exaggerated and out-of-place gesticulations. Second, and most delightfully, he says a bunch of absolutely crazy shit (including the questionable dropping of the n-bomb), capping it off with his signature ‘We the best!’ and ‘We run this!’ All of this, of course, is said in his inimical voice, a hysterical screech that more often than not haunts me when I fall asleep at night.
2. The green (or blue) screen – Oh, yes. This is the shittiest employment of this technology I have had the misfortune to which my eyes have born witness. Ever. Why they couldn’t simply walk outside and film in front of buildings is beyond me. Surely they weren’t sufficiently impressed enough with the effects being employed that they thought that this would be a suitable stand-in for a dilapidated building. While I’m not privy to such decisions, I find it absolutely remarkable that more than one person signed off on this. It’s stunning…the depths of human stupidity.
3. DJ Khaled…again – The possibility of Khaled being a performance artist, perpetrating an elaborate hoax on hip-hop, just sprung to mind as a potential explanation for his continued existence. Nothing else could explain his hilarious signaling and waving in the background as Jeezy (and everybody else) rhymes. Just watch him. Every single movement seems choreographed to elicit maximum laughter. It’s a stunning piece of physical comedy. He also keeps on mouthing everybody’s words and fucking them up.
4. The police car – This looks like it came out of a bad video game. Perhaps this is an advertisement for an ‘I’m So Hood’ video game? That would be the only thing explain the shoddy, shoddy graphics. That, and congenital blindness.
5. The ‘WE THE BEST’ graphics that go over Luda’s middle fingers – At this point, I’m almost at a loss for words as to what’s going on this video. And why did some random dude just walk up to make a call on the (poorly) digitally penciled-in phone booth?
6. Luda knocking over said phone booth at the end of his (legitimately awesome) verse – Priceless.
7. The weird tilting of the camera - I suppose that this was one of the reasons that they decided to go with the shitty graphics of shitty buildings, rather than the shitty buildings themselves. Khaled must have been like “It would be – we the best! – great if we could get the camera to do weird, jerky – we run this, man! – movements all over the place while people are just trying to watch the video. And interrupt those epileptic movements with – I make hit records! –poorly executed zooms and – it’s what I do! – other camera tricks. We the best!”
8. Busta’s clothes – Wow. This video gets better and better. Just when you thought the dull palette and piss-poor animation had satisfactorily plumbed the depths of visual mediocrity, in comes Busta with one of the most unintentionally hilarious costumes I’ve ever seen. Cloaked in a huge, ugly jacket, a puffy, bloated leather hat, and wearing what appears to be 215 pounds of chains around his neck, Busta gets high marks for the boldness of his vision. One second, he takes his jacket off. Then, in the very next scene, he has his jacket back on, and there’s money falling down from the fake buildings all around him, interspersed with random close-ups of some anonymous girl. At this point, DJ Khaled is just getting uncomfortably, Beanie Sigel-close to the rappers, half-heartedly flailing his arms around his considerable heft. It’s a performance for the ages.
9. The random kid appearing next to Big Boi with what looks to be a mummified puppy in his arms – Sweet. I don’t know how, or why, Big Boi gave the go-ahead on this video, but he did. He must have negotiated a little harder than the others though, as Khaled bestows upon him not one, but two startlingly mediocre backdrops to rap in front of.
10. Weezy – By far the best part of his verse is when a shirtless Wayne holds up a computer printout (I was impressed they used a color printer) of a Maybach and rips it, only to reveal – through the impressive use of mid-90s digital trickery — a different scene entirely!
11. Fat Joe – At least he shows up for a second to compete with Khaled as the most untalented person there. It was looking like a runaway victory for a second.
12. Baby not getting the memo for who was supposed to wear the most chains in the video – Unfortunate, for him.
13. Rick Ross – Oh, yes. What in the world is Ross wearing? He looks deranged & homeless with the beard, the sunglasses, and the ill-fitting red tracksuit. Then, there’s the hand-drawn 2 for 40 sign. At this point, I think Khaled was given $185 for the video, Ross just lost out on the last verse and was given the privilege to rap in two giant red plastic bags.
14. The Koch Entertainment ending credit – Just in case you were unsure what world-beating record label was behind this masterpiece.
The “We Takin’ Over’” video seems so far away right now.
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Damn, I just saw this on a re-run of 106&Park… you summed it up: bad graphics, tons of rappers looking their worst.
I deemed “I’m So Hood”, the original, one of the better videos from this year (in dealing w/ more than 2 rappers).
I can’t wait for “I’m So Hood” the video game!!!
haha, hilarious run down.
World beating indeed.
“It’s rare that I’ll stumble across something so atrocious, so execrable in every way, that I am compelled to write about it. It is even rarer still that DJ Khaled, an irrelevant, screeching hyena of a man with no clear talents of his own (aside from being able to coerce every single rapper below the Mason-Dixon to appear on his songs, the vast majority of which are not even produced by him), would elicit such strong feelings from me.”
OK… one mo’gain from the top. This time tell us how you really feel…
LMFAO… I feel your pain sir… Who
ARE THESE PEOPLE???
Let me clarify…
Not the guest MC’s… The Khaled’s of the world.
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Just in time for Xmas I guess…
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Very nice review Matt. I was thinking the exact same things when I saw this piece of shit this afternoon.
My main complaint is…IF YOU’RE SO HOOD, WHY DO U FILM IN FRONT OF A BLUE SCREEN OF THE HOOD??????????????
You’ve got the money, the ghetto passes, right? Then go to the fucking hood and shoot a video.
LMAO @ this shit. Tell em’ Mundy…
Hey Boogie! That Chris Brown lasted a clean 5 minutes on the iPod. Grade A manure…
wow that was funny…and im told im a hater. good job cause folks get too many passes these days …
What the fuck is this shit R&B that comes on the page the whole time???..That’s what you should be complaining about..Fucking gay
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@ boogie tonight,
You can grab streams with a few different progs. The only one I use is TotalRecoder, which I bought several yrs ago. I can grab the track later when I get in from work if you want or if nobody else gets to it. Send me an email with what you need.
chief78@gmail.com
This video sucks a fat bag of dicks, what a joke.
“a man with no clear talents of his own”
I’m not a fan of Khaled, but if you ever been to one of the spots in the MIA where he spinnin’…dude actually got skills on the tables.
“Fat Joe – At least he shows up for a second to compete with Khaled as the most untalented person there. It was looking like a runaway victory for a second.”
Never heard Represent? Or Jealous One’s Envy? Or Don Cartagena?
If he got his toungue cut out im sure nobody would miss them horrible intros from khaled
LMAO @ Beware & tc
* searches Khaled in iTunes. Select All. Delete.
What a worthless piece of shit video
and don’t let Pun fool you that you like or liked Fat Joe. Dood is straight trash!
I COMPLETELY AGREE!!!! I saw this video this mornin and was tellin my girl “this shit is terrible.” I didnt understand wither why they simply couldn’t go outside and shoot the video. Given time and schedule restraints, I thought they could’ve done better. Khaled is dumb annoying and
– “First, he looks absolutely ridiculous, parading his bizarrely shaped frame around as he attempts to trump his previous hand gestures with even more exaggerated and out-of-place gesticulations” –
is the best line on the page.
ha ha hilarious read. i had never even seen the video but after your intro i had to peep it.
truly atrocious
We run this hood..oops I mean green screen to make it look like it’s the hood cause we ain’t exactly in the hood…but you know what I mean
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holla
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i can’t seem to find anything with the search box.
thx
Why no mention of KRS in the video.
^ We…well, I…well, nevermind.
LOLOL, run down is hillarious. It looked like the backdrop was scenes from Streets of Rage.
Rick Ross did look like a killer tomatoe.
@ bong those expired already i think
It looked like the backdrop was scenes from Streets of Rage.
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Best description so far. This video is horrible. It’s like rape, but for your eyes.
yeah that video was terrible. did yall notice busta didn’t take off his bluetooth for the video? did he have that shit surgically attached to his ear or something?
Haha my day has been made. Thanks MM
@ EF Huttin –
“It’s like rape, but for your eyes.”
wow. that really had me laughin.
Chief thanks see ya email
“getting uncomfortably, Beanie Sigel-close to the rappers”
Matthew, the Quotation King.
I said the same shit when I first saw it.
The song itself is garbage.
The only good verse (through and through) from it is Luda’s.
lol this is the funniest shit i’ve read in a long time… thanks…
cosign Moniker; Luda merks his verse.
DS – I swear I’m biased & don’t want to point out shit, but man I literally fuckin laughed when I read that line lol. I’ve been pissed all day that nobody else caught it but me until now lol.
I can’t believe KRS-1 co-signed on this shit.
This shit is going down as a classic post.
brilliant
Loooll Damm dude u know how to use words! (ever thought of ghostwritting?)
that post was hilarious
“that DJ Khaled, an irrelevant, screeching hyena of a man with no clear talents of his own (aside from being able to coerce every single rapper below the Mason-Dixon to appear on his songs..he looks absolutely ridiculous, parading his bizarrely shaped frame around as he attempts to trump his previous hand gestures with even more exaggerated and out-of-place gesticulations”
lool
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“Fat Joe – At least he shows up for a second to compete with Khaled as the most untalented person there. It was looking like a runaway victory for a second.”
I feel u kid
had me crying laughing
thanks
hilarious. thanks for that article, man, every notable wtf-moment was on point. I would have never watched this video otherwise, I would have instantly turned the channel. But I’m glad to see how unintentionally, hilariously bad hiphop videos have gotten.
When you’re right you’re right. The fact that so many artists are involved with this does nothing but damage to peoples perception of Hip Hop.
LMFAO!!!!!! what shiiiiiiit!!
i always wondered why this waterbeek sandbag fuck was screaming out NIGGUAR like he had 1 drop of slave blood in him. shit dont even sound right coming out his mouth, whit is a nigguar anyway? he better at least be cuban or something, the prick looks like a swami
Is that Grand Theft Auto Atlanta? Shit! I heard that might be comin…
F-cking hilarious! This is how one should start the morning. It stings a little b/c I’m from Dade, but a lot of this is true. I like the track though, and Khaled is actually an amazing f-cking DJ.
Speaking of Jeezy, I got some behind-the-scenes of the Boost Mobile commercial with Jermaine Dupri and Mickey Avalon coming soon.
kill some time over here.
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Busta’s clothes? I don’t agree with that. What kinda shit do you be wearin bro. that was Slick Rick fly to me.
DJ Khaled, an irrelevant, screeching hyena of a man with no clear talents of his own (aside from being able to coerce every single rapper below the Mason-Dixon to appear on his songs, the vast majority of which are not even produced by him)
You don’t think this is a talent?
finally someone put it to words
That was some of the funniest shit I’ve read in years were can I read your writing’s on a regular? Love the comment about the song your so hood but none of it is shot in any hoods whatsoever??
Who told this arab he could say the n-word??? That n*@#%# aint black enough to be doing that isht, ya hurd!!
LMAO!! That was hysterical!! WE the BEST? WHO?? WEEE??? I really do like this song…but my neice gets scared and confused with the long into by Khaled. She always feels like he’s yelling at her.
LMAOO…why does Rick Ross remind me of Santa Claus??…they soo did tht shit on purpose..
haha PURE comedy!
if these niggas are soo “hood”, why are they shooting the fuckin video in front of a blue screen?? haha synthetic thugs at their finesttt =D
It is just a thought that maybe the horrible video was on purpose. I’m just saying….the name of the song is “I’m So Hood” and isn’t this the hoodest low budget ish you’ve seen in a while? I think they made their point….like I said, Just a Thought
This was so hilarious i couldnt stop laughing
What a great write up of this video…classic….
yea, Khaled needs to leave the n-word alone…period. Thats why I dont buy or support his sh!t….damn towel head…sorry
man i live in fortlauderdale and i know that this track/video is whats up. i love the whole effect. it was cool. the video was too hot!!! all the rappers from everywhere was hot!!! I represent the hood and FA SHO THEY ARE REPRESENTING THE DIRY SOUTH. you gotta be about it to know about it. yeah dj khaled voice is annoying but he did his thing on this track by bringing in all these fly ass rappers from all over. and RICK ROSS is big but the dude got mad talent in and out the streets. STOP HATING ON WHAT YA DONT UNDERSTAND!!!!
yo, LMAO!, that was hilarious, i was literally cryin while reading this…good read thanx
you suck
exspecially DJ Khaled…Ha Ha Ha