2 Chainz - “Watch Out” (Official Video)

2 Chainz – “Watch Out” (Dir. Motion Family)

So 2 Chainz is clearly biting his former label boss Ludacris’ “Rollout (My Bizness)” video from 2001, and he appears to be doing it on a fraction of the budget. In theory, this is pretty lame. In practice, as with so much of what 2 Chainz does, I still love this stupid shit.

Rae Sremmurd - “Come Get Her” Explicit (Official Video)

Thus far, SremmLife, the debut album from Mississippi swag-rap duo Rae Sremmurd, has produced four fairly big hit singles: “No Flex Zone,” “No Type,” “Throw Sum Mo,” and “This Could Be Us.” That is an absolutely ridiculous hit rate, one that’s practically unheard-of for rap albums nowadays. And now they’re working on their fifth. The duo just shared a video for the strip-club jam “Come Get Her,” and it’s an absolutely ridiculous one. The video’s plot, such as it is, revolved around Rae Sremmurd being accidentally booked to perform at a country-music line-dancing club, and it involves deeply goofy stereotypes about horses and pigs being allowed into the bar. It’s about as over-the-top as a video like this should be, and I cackled pretty much the whole way through.

Drake - “Energy” (Official Video) Explicit

The Drake “Energy” video has arrived! Looks like Future isn’t the only one dropping new material today. Drake just went on Beats 1 radio and dropped the video for “Energy,” one of the best songs off his suprise mixtape from earlier this year If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. He pokes fun at plenty of media and celebrity fiascos, from Kanye West in the “Bound 2″ video to President Obama, Miley Cyrus, and Oprah Winfrey. There’s even a Drake-looking Ken doll.

Miguel - Wildheart Chapter 1: Find What You Love And Let It Kill You Short Film (Explicit Version)

Miguel just released his really good new psychedelic R&B album Wildheart, and he’s already given us a sexy video for its sexy lead single “Coffee.” Now he’s put together a 13-minute short film called Wildheart Chapter 1: Find What You Love And Let It Kill You, which is basically one extra-long and extra-sexy music video for “…goingtohell,” “Coffee,” and “NWA,” interpolating the previously seen “Coffee” video and expanding upon Miguel’s torrid love affair with his blue-haired muse. At the end, Miguel goes for a sunny neighborhood stroll, and Kurupt is there too.

Rihanna - “Bitch Better Have My Money” (Official Video) Explicit

Take a deep breath and savor the moment. We’re going to have a very short time before the parents’ groups of the world start loudly freaking the fuck out over Rihanna’s new video for “Bitch Better Have My Money,” so we need to appreciate every moment that that isn’t happening. Rihanna shared a preview of the video a few days ago, promising nudity and language and violence. She wasn’t kidding. The clip features Rihanna and a couple of friends kidnapping a rich lady and holding her for ransom, and it ends with a naked Rihanna, covered in blood, smoking weed while sitting in a trunk full of cash. The actors Mads Mikkelsen and Eric Roberts appear in the video, and there is an actual story arc. But all that is secondary to the sheer bold imagery of Rihanna, lounging in a blow-up pool on the deck of an oil tanker, firing an uzi off into nothingness, or getting her hostage high while throwing money up in the air in a hotel room somewhere. It’s a hell of a video, and Rihanna co-directed it with Megaforce.

Carl Barat And The Jackals - "A Storm Is Coming" (Explicit Video)

‘A Storm Is Coming’ is the second single from the forthcoming debut album ‘Let It Reign’ by Carl Barat And The Jackals– out 16 February 2015 on Cooking Vinyl and Grand Jury (US). Pre-order the album now and get ‘A Storm Is Coming’ and ‘Glory Days’ to download straight away.

‘Carl Barat And The Jackals on tasty form – it’s uplifting stuff’ - **** Q Magazine

"Pile-driving punk confidence" - NME

"If you like the Libertines you will like this." The Independent

Schoolboy Q - “Hell Of A Night” (Official Video)

Schoolboy Q released the EDM-infused banger “Hell Of A Night” way back in May 2013, and it showed up on his #1 album Oxymoron early this year. Now Q has finally gotten around to making a video for the track, “cuHz i was bored.” Jonathan Augüstavó directed the clip, which features Q sipping on an “Earl“-like drug smoothie and hallucinating his way around a wild party. There is also some organ thievery perpetuated on a guy tripping so hard he looks like a character from the “Black Hole Sun” video.

Big Sean - “I Don’t Fuck With You” Video (Feat. Kanye West)

Big Sean’s new single “I Don’t Fuck With You” was produced by Kanye West and DJ Mustard, and both of them show up in the new football-themed video for the track. Kanye is the coach for the team and gives advice from the sidelines. Guest rapper E-40 also makes an appearance.

Juicy J - “Low” (Feat. Nicki Minaj, Lil Bibby & Young Thug) Official Video

Juicy J’s new single “Low,” which has on-fire verses from Nicki Minaj and Lil Bibby and a lovably slurry Young Thug on the hook, is one of the most dizzily fun rap singles in recent memory. It deserved a video that reflects its energy, but that’s not what it got. Instead, director Benny Boom gave it a total boilerplate rap video, full of butts and colored smoke and four-wheelers popping wheelies and conspicuous product placement. It’s still worth watching, but only because the song is amazing.

Future - “I Won” (Feat. Kanye West) Official Video

The celebratory and sentimental Future/Kanye collab “I Won” now has a video to go along with it. The video’s a subdued, mostly black-and-white affair featuring some of the sexiest dancing on a beach since Beyoncé danced on a beach for her “Drunk In Love” video. In case you missed it, Future also shared his André 3000 collab earlier today and you can stream most of Honest right now. Watch the Hype Williams-directed video.

Rick Ross - “War Ready” (Feat. Jeezy) Explicit Video

Rick Ross’s new album Mastermind tends to sag under the weight of its own opulence, but it finds one of its few moments of true shout-along catharsis with “War Ready,” a six-minute shout-along death-threat anthem that unites Ross with former foe Jeezy. Now, that track gets an appropriately low-budget and violent video. The clip has a warehouse gun battle, a lot of goons in creepy metallic masks, and cameos from street-rap luminaries like Meek Mill and YG. TAJ_TPK directs.

Beyoncé - "Partition" (Explicit Video)

Music video by Beyoncé performing Partition. (C) 2013 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

Now that “Drunk In Love” has effectively conquered the known universe, Beyoncé has marked “Partition,” the skittering sex-in-the-limo jam that’s my favorite song from her amazing self-titled album, as the next single to blow up. Since BEYONCÉ was a “visual album,” the song already had a stylized, negligee-happy video from director Jake Nava. But if I’m not mistaken, this edit of the video is just slightly dirtier than the one that ended up on the album, and it’s got Beyoncé in states of undress that may test your workplace conduct codes. Either way, it’s the first time you cheapskates who didn’t buy the album can see it without hunting through janky quasi-legal video sites. Jay Z, shrouded in shadow, makes a few brief appearances.

Schoolboy Q - “Break The Bank” (Official Video)(Explicit)

The L.A. rap spitfire Schoolboy Q is one day away from releasing his furious new album Oxymoron, and now he’s made a video for one of its best songs, the splenetic Alchemist-produced banger “Break The Bank.” Director Jason Goldwatch’s clip is an absorbing piece of sun-infused tough-guy verite, and it stars both an extensively face-tatted Latino gangster and Q’s four-year-old daughter in a tutu. Q contains multitudes!

Killer Mike - “Ghetto Gospel” (Official Video) Explicit

Before Killer Mike and El-P teamed up as the fearsome rap duo Run The Jewels last year, El produced all of Mike’s great 2012 album R.A.P. Music. And today, for whatever reason, Mike has given us the video for the rumbling album track “Ghetto Gospel.” In directors Trevor Kane and Carlos Haynes’s clip, Mike dons his Sunday best and drives a pickup truck to a backwoods church before engaging in a few more illicit activities.

Beyoncé (Feat. Jay Z) - "Drunk In Love” (Official Video)

"Beyoncé" The Visual Album
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Music video by Beyoncé feat. Jay Z performing Drunk in Love. (C) 2013 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

R. Kelly - “Cookie Video” Explicit (Official Video)

Black Panties as great Album, and one of the best reasons to check it out is “Cookie,” an absolute monster of an R&B song that compares cunnilingus to sumptuously licking the cream out of an Oreo. Now that song has a hyper-misogynist video in which Kellz inhabits a mansion staffed by scantily clad ladies who do his bidding. Really takes the charm out of an otherwise first-rate sex romp! Anyway, watch below.

A$AP Mob – “Trillmatic” (Feat. Method Man) Video

A$AP Rocky is already a star, A$AP Ferg is already a cult hero, and next year, we’ll hear from the rest of the A$AP Mob. The crew’s as-yet-untitled compilation album will be out in a few months, and first single “Trillmatic” is almost entirely a solo showcase for crew member A$AP Nast. But the ’90s-style boom-bap track also has a verse from Method Man, and Meth sounds nasty on this thing. The video sticks with the Timberlands-era aesthetic, going hard on the dudes-rapping-in-project-hallways style that used to dominate the Box and Rap City.

Eminem - "Rap God" (Explicit) Official Video

The video for “Rap God,” the honestly impressive six-minute fast-rap excessive from Eminem’s not-great new album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, has landed, and it’s a weird one. For whatever reason, Em and director Rich Lee have based the video on Max Headroom, the jittery CGI TV host who seemed to signify the ’80s even as the ’80s were actually happening. The video also casts Em as a berserk rap robot, a levitating cypher demon, a walking-on-water deity, and Pinhead from Hellraiser.

Pusha T – “Hold On” (Feat. Rick Ross) Explicit Video

Pusha T released his awesomely stark and snarly album My Name Is My Name last month, and for months, he’s been making cold and minimal and effective videos for the album’s tracks: “Numbers On The Board,” “King Push,” “Nosetalgia,” “Sweet Serenade,” “Pain.” Now, he’s got another one, for the Rick Ross collab “Hold On,” which Kanye West and Hudson Mohawke co-produced. This one is probably the least interesting of the bunch, but it still has some cool imagery. It revolves around Pusha and Ross conducting what appears to be an emotional dope-house symposium, and frequent Ross collaborator DRE Films directed it.

Future - “Real And True” (Feat. Miley Cyrus & Mr. Hudson) (Official Video)

Last week, we heard “Real And True,” the bizarrely Coldplay-esque piano ballad that the great Atlanta Auto-Tune gargler Future recorded with Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson. That song now has what might be the first post-Gravity music video. Director Rankin has cast Future and Hudson as astronauts, and Future has “Future” written across the back of his spacesuit, which I love. A bodysuited Miley plays a glittery glowing alien, which seems about right. The video is perfectly ridiculous, and you can watch it at YOUKU.