The video has finally made it to YouTube. The chummy buddy crap at 1:40 is unbearable. Look, I don't care how badly these dudes want to convince us they're Best Friends Forever and Ever and Ever. We all know the only reason he's even in this video, on this song, or has the new collabo with Jay-Z is because after the one-two punch of 808 and Heartbreak and then his public harassment of Taylor Swift, no one is gonna buy a Just Kanye anything. See: Right around the 58-second mark, Ye completely flubs mouthing along to Jay-Z's verse. Hey, here's a pitch for an out-there, expectation-crushing music video: Two of the biggest names in the rap game trash a custom vehicle with a buzz saw and a blow torch, while hanging out with ugly women, eating gross-looking food, and doing whippits. Wouldn't It Be Cooler If They Trashed That Car But you've been hyping this shit for weeks and it's only 196 seconds long?Ģ. "Otis" is barely three minutes long! Look, MTV, we know attention spans are extinct. Remember when an MTV Music Video World Premiere meant, like, Michael Jackson presenting a half-hour saga, the subtext of which was how much more he had descended into madness since the last video. Video Premieres Used to Mean Something, Dammit It's totally no good! After the jump, check out Crossfade's five reasons Jay-Z and Kanye's "Otis" video totally sucks.ġ. Put simply, this pair of premiere rap man-baby millionaires has, quite predictably, substituted soul for swag.
Making the auction even more intriguing is the fact that Daimler-Benz has decided to cease production of the luxury vehicles in 2013 due to lackluster sales, which is surprising considering that the cars, in street-appropriate, all-four-doors-and-windows condition, cost upwards of $350,000.Earlier in the week, Crossfade reported on the new Hova-slash-Yeezy collabo "Otis" and how the track totally misses the point of the original Otis Redding song it samples.
Phillips De Pury estimates that the car, a heavily “customized” 2007 Maybach 57 with a V12 engine, will go for between $100,000 and $150,000. in New York with proceeds benefiting Save the Children. The auction will take place at Phillips De Pury & Co. The vehicle will be auctioned on March 8, which gives you exactly one week to liquidate the savings bonds your grandparents set aside for you at birth, undoubtedly anticipating an investment opportunity of this exact nature.
It may not have extravagant features like windows or doors, but it transported Jay-Z, and that feature is invaluable. Well, now you can purchase the exact Maybach used in the music video for the Grammy-winning song. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.ĭo you remember the Spike Jonze–directed music video for the Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration “Otis” that premiered in August? The one in which Jay-Z and Kanye West sample Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” and whiz around an abandoned lot in a deconstructed Maybach 57 with four gorgeous models, and inexplicably, Aziz Ansari-just like you do every other Friday, weather permitting? Right.