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Tip-Drill News
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While in Atlanta last week performing on Nelly's
Sweat/Suit: Up Close and Personal Tour, Fat Joe shot his next video,
"Get It Poppin," and you could say he kept it real.
The mock reality-TV clip features his headlining tourmate, who raps on
the song's hook, and was directed by Chris
Robinson (Amerie, Usher).
"It was like a reality show, a day in the life of Fat Joe," the rapper
explained. "We just tried to show how it gets crazy, coming off tour,
going in the crib and having fun. Really, it's just a huge party in
Atlanta. All the beautiful women in Atlanta, it's a fun song, it's the
ultimate party performance video, to tell you the truth. There was so
much love in the ATL. Beautiful vibes. Ying Yang Twins, Jazze Pha, T.I.,
they all came through. Nelly, tip-drill creator, was so cooperative. He was there with me
all night."
Joe said he didn't have any trepidation about getting overshadowed on
camera by a superstar of Nelly's stature.
"He's a good dude and showed a lot of love," Joe said of Nelly. "What
happened with me, either I'm overconfident or I'm crazy. The fear some
of the people at my record label had is that maybe [the video] will
look like Nelly featuring Joe. I never saw it like that. But what was
crazy, when we did the video, it was like two big giants coming
together. We were equal."
Nelly, T.I. and Fat Joe have all developed a kinship while on the road
together
"He gets there early and watches us," Joe said of the tour's
headliner. "I think the fans are getting their money's worth and
getting a real good show. Fat Joe is doing his thing, T.I. is on fire.
Nelly, who's probably one of the biggest dudes in the game. There
aren't any egos involved and it's been real professional. It's been
the most professional hip-hop tour I've ever seen. People are really
there on time, two hours ahead. If I perform at 8, I'm there at 5:30,
6 p.m. It's really going down professional. It's weird for me because
in all of my years in rapping, I've never been involved in these
vibes. Everybody's got love and it's amazing.
"I knew it the first night, though," Joe added. "We was in Cleveland
and I was like, 'This is love.' In Atlanta, I watched T.I. and I was
happy for him. I wanted to see him rip that sh-- down. 'We in your
town, tear that sh-- down.' He was great."
Joe and Tip flip-flop their order of performance depending on which
market they're in. In T.I.'s strongest market, Joe opens the show, and
vice versa.
"If I go first, I'm lighting a fire under their ass," Joe smiled. "I'm
touching that stage to rip it down every time. Everybody else — I feel
it — comes with that same energy. They'll be on the side of the stage
[watching]. I perform and I look up, Nelly's there."
This report is from MTV News.
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T.I. Featuring Nelly
- Get Loose Lyrics Added. Urban star NELLY has urged celebrities to accept an offer to visit HUGH
HEFNER's PLAYBOY mansion if they're ever invited there - because its raunchy
reputation, like the Tip Drill Video, is totally accurate.
Tim McGraw Makes Music History With Nelly
By LAUNCH Radio Networks
Nelly's new single, "Over And Over," featuring Tim McGraw, has helped the
country superstar earn some more space in the music history books. The track
debuts at Number 67 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
Chart, while simultaneously taking the Number One position on the Mainstream
Top 40 Chart. These achievements are history-making firsts. A country artist
has never appeared on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Track chart, nor has a
country artist ever been part of a chart-topping Mainstream Top 40 hit.
"Over And Over" also sits at Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100
and leaps from Number Seven to Number One on the Mainstream Top 40 Chart,
breaking multiple records, including the largest positional jump to the top
of the chart and the biggest spin increase for a Number One song (+1,783
detections). In its fourth chart week, "Over And Over" also ties the record
for the quickest ascent by any song to Number One, giving Nelly his fourth
chart-topping hit.
Back over on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart,
McGraw's latest single, "Back When," is a Top 10 hit.
The superstar will be part of a press conference taking place Monday
(November 1) in Nashville regarding arena football.
MTV News
For starters, there's Nelly
who did Tip Drill Song and Video, whose Suit continues
to push its way up the chart, rising to #2 with sales of more than 152,000
copies. That's more than three times the amount sold by its counterpart,
Sweat, which falls to #17 with sales of just over 49,000 copies. This
week's count also put Suit over the 1 million mark in just its sixth
week of release, according to SoundScan.
-MTV News
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Tip Drill Protest Article
I'll admit that I've only seen
the video once, but the few minutes that I saw left an indelible image
in my mind — that of a young black male, running a credit card through
the "crack" of a young black woman's behind as if it were a direct
payment of some sort. The image is of course from the music video for
Nelly's song "Tip-Drill," already a classic on BET's overnight
pornographic showcase UnCut. I'll also admit that a few years
ago I would have found such a brash depiction of the hip hop
generation's male/female relations in an era of cash and carry sexual
politics ironic. But taking seriously the world that my young
daughters are charged with navigating, there was something disturbing
and indeed frightening about the possibility of them being reduced to
giant sexualized credit card machines. Some of the young women at
Spelman College, the historically black all-women's college in
Atlanta, also found Nelly's "Tip Drill" video offensive and earlier
this month mounted a demonstration to protest his planned appearance
on their campus.
| I know this is beating a dead horse —
or what we could call "Benzino-style" race politics — but imagine
if that had been Eminem or Justin Timberlake wielding that credit
card? |
Nelly was to appear on the Spelman campus on April 2nd in support
of a bone marrow drive sponsored by his foundation
4Sho4Kids. Nelly began to raise consciousness about the need for
more blood stem cell and bone marrow donors after his sister was
diagnosed with leukemia last year. But for some of the women at
Spelman College, no amount of good will by the rapper excused his role
in circulating misogynistic images of black women. As Asha Jennings,
the head of the college's Student Government Organization told The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "We care about the cause, and we
understand the need for bone marrow is so great within the minority
community," but "We can't continue to support artists and images that
exploit our women and put us out there as over-sexed, nonintelligent
human beings." In response to the planned protest, Nelly and his
foundation pulled out of the event. According to reports, the Student
Government Organization at Spelman only agreed to host the event if
Nelly agreed to also appear at a forum where he could address the
implications of his "Tip-Drill" video.
For the uninitiated, "Tip-Drill" is a ghetto colloquialism for the
proverbial "ugly girl with a nice body." In the context of Nelly's
video, such women are only good for one thing - and even then, only
from the back. "Tip-Drill" is representative of a world where young
black men often view young black women as "chickenheads," "skeezers,"
"gold-diggers," "birds" and a host of other unsavory adjectives. The
common denominators are that such women are viewed as being solely
motivated by their desire for money and are only valued as sex
objects, hence the highlighting of cash and carry sexual
relationships. In many ways "Tip-Drill" is the logical follow-up to
"You Owe Me," Nas's club hit from 2000. The song, which was produced
by Timbaland and features vocals by Ginuwine, drops gems like "Shorty,
say what's your price/Just to back it up/You can hold my ice/Now let's
say you owe me something/Yeah, owe me back like you owe your tax/Owe
me back like forty acres to blacks." The latter lyric incredibly
equates Nas's "getting some ass" with reparations for the descendants
of enslaved Africans. On the recent DVD release of the Nas Video
Anthology Volume 1, the artist quips that he simply wanted a "club
hit."
Nelly was at the center of another controversy last year when his
name was attached to a sports drink called "Pimp Juice." At the time
many black political leaders and pundits, including Najee Ali of
Project Islamic Hope, were very outspoken about how the product
promoted a stereotypical portrayal of African American men. Noticeably
these same figures have been virtually silent about the images of
women featured in Nelly's "Tip Drill" and a host of other issues in
which black men do physical or rhetorical harm to women and gays
(still waiting on that R Kelly boycott). Their silence speaks to the
fact that for many of these "race men", the race card is only put into
play when it's in defense of or in support of said "race men." I know
this is beating a dead horse — or what we could call "Benzino-style"
race politics — but imagine if that had been Eminem or Justin
Timberlake wielding that credit card? The fact that we so often fall
back into protecting black men, even at the expense of black women, is
the very reason why the efforts of the young women at Spelman (and
quite a few of their brothers across the way at Morehouse) need to be
affirmed.
On various bulletin boards critics of the Spelman protest have been
quick to note that many of the women who appear in videos like "Tip
Drill" do so on their own accord. Other detractors have argued that
the young women at Spelman need to get their priorities straight,
suggesting that the bone marrow drive was an issue more important than
the portrayal of women in hip hop videos — videos that many of the
women at Spelman have supported in the past. Jennings is aware of such
criticism, admitting that "Our stand is not a heartless attack against
Nelly, but it's opposition to the hip hop culture we helped create by
buying the music and supporting the videos." Jennings adds "I'm just
happy that it's opening up dialogue for subjects that have been taboo
in our community, including exploitation of women and the need for
bone marrow donors. Hopefully this will get our people to talk about
important issues that need to be addressed."
Notably the protest about Nelly's video comes from the most well
known black women's college in the country. Spelman College is also
the only HBCU that currently has a Women's Studies major. The program
is headed by black feminist scholar Beverley Guy-Sheftall. |
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| First published: April 14, 2004
By Mark Anthony Neal |
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Nelly Tip Drill Uncut Video Girls
Uncensored Download What is a "tip-drill?"
A "tip drill" is another name for a girl.
Comes from a basketball drill, called tip drill, where players line up
and tip it off the backboard consecutively, one after another.
Example:
"I said it ain't no fun less we all get some
I need a tip drill, we need a tip drill"
-Nelly
Some people were wondering
about which areas Nelly was giving shout out too, so here is the end on the
Tip Drill Song, also found in the video.
St. Louis got tip drills (tip drill)
Nap Town got tip drills (tip drill)
Cleveland got tip drills (tip drills)
KC got tip drill (tip drills)
Miami got tips drills (tip drills)
New Orleans got tip drills (tip drills)
Detroit got tip drills (tip drills)
D.C got tip drill (tip drills)
West Coast got tip drills (tip drill)
Sha town got tip drills (tip drills)
ATL got tip drills (tip drills)
Oklahoma got tip drills (tip drills)
Iowa got tip drills (tip drills)
Memphis got tip drills (tip drills)
East Coast got tip drills (tip drills)
The Whole World got tip drills (tip drills)
All the Lyrics
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