Busta’s Arab Money- Hands Down Worst Video of the Year
Ughh. The day I’ve been dreading since September has arrived. Busta’s ignant-ass song featuring his ignant-ass dance and Ron Browz’s ignant ass singing fake arabic is below. Click if you dare.
I think I’ve gone HAM on enough dumb rappers for one week, and plenty of folks have pointed out the xenophobia and cultural insensitivity of this song so I’ll just ask a few simple questions about the video:
1) Really DJ Khaled? Really?! Last I checked you were of Palestinian descent. How about you not be in a video with a bunch of morons stereotyping all Arabs to have “oil well money in the desert playing golf/ Dolce shorts, dashiki with a Louie Scarf”?? How bout you have some f*cking common sense and decline to cosign that buffoonery? You wouldn’t see my black ass in a video called “I Cook Black Folk Chicken” dancing around with a 2 piece and a biscuit. But maybe that’s just me.
2) Is Busta really playing cards with the ghost of Yasser Arafat?! Why oh, oh why would anyone really take the time to even CGI the Arafat ghost in? It’s like some sick joke that I clearly don’t get.
3) Why would grown men do that stupid ass dance?! And isn’t it just a half-ass version of the Get Silly dance?
4) Is this supposed to be a roundup of all the non-talented and washed-up rappers in hip hop? I couldn’t bear to watch it more than twice, but I think I saw Soulja Boy, Shawty Lo, Jim Jones (sorry, Kiana) AND Rick Ross (methinks the fat man is overrated).
5) Can we quit with the scarf already? I thought the kaffiyeh trend was dead when they started slanging them in every color of the rainbow on 125th street in Harlem. And then Rachel Ray wore one in a Dunkin Donuts ad to make sure the thing was dead.
6) What’s next? “We Gettin Asian Grades?” “We Runnin Italian Numbers?” The possibilities are endless.
Yeah, that’s pretty much all I wanna know at this point. If you have any answers, please let me know.
Tags: Arab Money, Busta Rhymes, DJ Khaled, Ron Browz, Stereotypes, The Fader, The Root
December 2nd, 2008 at 21:45
Please don’t put the idea of “we gettin asain grades out there” because Soulja Boy will make that mess. lol, this is hilarious though! But, let’s not let the world think I like Jimmy Jones like that, lol…I just think he’s funny except when he’s changing nigga to Obama.
December 3rd, 2008 at 02:57
I lost 5 mins of my life watching him explain the concept of this on 106 and Park….didn’t even stick around to see the video
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:42
Jasmine- whats was his explanation? I cant even try to imagine
December 3rd, 2008 at 16:20
so mad at getting Asian grades & running Italian numbers! lol!
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December 8th, 2008 at 01:24
lmao
responding to your #3, what’s even worse is that a whole crowd of people do that dance at the end of the video
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March 4th, 2009 at 17:26
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money money money yeaaaaah people Arab Money yeaaaaah
i dont now y i watch this fuckn video … say what u want people we dont care
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