If they create videos which are polarizing, it’s usually for their “strong” tone on politics or social issues. I remember first seeing the video on a friend’s computer while in high school, with a grin on my face marvelling at why we never have such house parties when we decide to bunk school.īET Uncut came to an end after many complaints about the show being distasteful and constituting soft porn. Uncut aired from 2001 till 2006, playing mostly Hip Hop videos with gross sexual imagery that had many teenagers risk getting an ass-whipping just to watch their favourite artists, next to some of the finest booty you’ll ever see.Ī slew of explicit Hip Hop videos aired in those five years but nothing was raunchier than Nelly’s Tip Drill which saw dudes in throwback jerseys, du-rags and Air Forces at a house party that probably had three naked women for each fella in the video. I know right, my eyes rolled too.īlack Entertainment Television (BET) designated their late hours to these explicit music videos, in a programme called BET Uncut. So bad, that MTV would only broadcast the video with an introduction from Jay-Z explaining that it was a metaphorical death, not a real one. It was viewed as something done in bad taste. In the last scene, a defenceless Jigga is shot at multiple times on a sidewalk. Shot in Brooklyn, New York the video depicts life for niggers in the hood and the city. Rapper Jay-Z found himself in some trouble for his 99 Problems video. Be it nudity, unpleasant language or the depiction of violence in a music video-and more. Dirty doesn’t only pertain to women gyrating their rears in front of the camera it is what viewers deem offensive. Artists still make clean versions of their songs for radio and will have the explicit joints on their albums. I grew up in a time where tracks had two versions of the video, the dirty one and the clean version for prime time television. Bar the excitement my body couldn’t hide from seeing erotic scenes, I actually sat there pondering for what seemed like an eternity, on the paucity of X-rated versions of music videos. It was the triple ‘X’ in the title of the video that got my attention. It's a shame that if someone wants to see Nelly swipe a card through some chick cheeks or is curious about what that things actually does smell like, now they've got to search for their answers on YouTube as opposed to BET providing them.I’d like to think I’m writing this after seeing the best video category from this year’s South African Music Awards nomination’s list.But it was rather going through a friend’s external hard drive and coming across 2PAC’s How Do You Want It with the brothers K-Ci & JoJo. BET bowed to pressure and pulled the plug on BET: Uncut on July, 8th 2006. Sadly "women's groups" objected to the content of the videos and made it a national story (is there any fun they can't ruin?). It was a place where one could find not only barely censored versions of "Disco Inferno" and "Right Thurr", but also hidden gems like Black Jesus' "What That Thing Smell Like." In fact "What That Thing Smell Like" was probably the video that best represented BET: Uncut it was poorly produced, hastily thrown together guilty pleasure that you'd be ashamed to be caught watching but strangely transfixing at the same time. BET: Uncut gave you a free pass that you could redeem from the comfort of your couch. You know, the ones on the wrong side of town that you'd never set foot in not only because you were afraid of what you'd catch, but also that you might catch a bad one. And what BET: Uncut offered was hands down the best smut available on free cable in the middle of the night.īET: Uncut was like a glimpse into the grimiest strip clubs. BET: Uncut was a program that didn't care about taste or standards or quality of any kind. Sure it was a programming block, but it was a programming block that featured some of the worst looking videos, and frankly video hoes, ever. And today we at Fish & Spaghetti mourn another passing, the passing of BET: Uncut. Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, that chick from the poster in the 1970's, TV's drunkest sidekick.
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