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Xzibit - What U See Is What U Get

Music Video | 1998
ArtistXzibit
SongWhat U See Is What U Get
Album40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
DirectorGregory Dark
Director of PhotographyMatthew Libatique
IntroNo
OutroNo
LabelLoud
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

Asked to pick up milk from a nearby store, Xzibit sets off through Los Angeles, greeting friends and moving through the neighborhood with casual confidence. Along the way, he finds a $100 bill, performs briefly at a local concert, and passes a series of increasingly chaotic incidents, including a carjacking, shooting, bombing, and store looting. None of the disruption changes his focus. After returning home with the milk, he is immediately sent back out for hot sauce.

Factoids & Trivia

  • Xzibit came up with the idea for the video as a single continuous shot, an approach he wanted to use to make a stronger impression within Loud Records.
  • The apparent one-take structure was assembled from 13 separate shots. Xzibit later said the production was completed in about two days.
  • The exploding-car sequence was one of the video's major set pieces. Flavor Flav, who is referenced in the song, happened to show up and was included in the finished video.
  • The ending dedication honors Michael Lucero, the music video director who had recently died. Lucero's company had previously worked on Xzibit's "Paparazzi" and "The Foundation."
  • The video became one of Xzibit's early career breakthroughs and spent six weeks at No. 1 on BET's Rap City Top 10 countdown.
  • The single was released in 1998 as the first single from Xzibit's second album, 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz. It reached No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the Hot Rap Singles chart.
  • Cameos include Flavor Flav, King Tee, Tha Alkaholiks, and Xzibit's son, Tre Capital.

Lyrics

[Speaking:]
And so it was written, and after all these things,
I saw another angel come down from heaven
Having great power and the eath was lighted with his glory
And he cried mightily with the strong voice saying "Babylon the great has
fallen,
it's fallen and has become the habitation of devils
and the home to every fowl spirit and a cage of very unclean and hateful men"

What you see is what you get now
Xzibit never wait around for kick downs, get my own shit, blowe
Shot heard around the world
Uplift, bench press, arm curl, keep the structure of the temple
...
© Xzibit - What U See Is What U Get. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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