I dunno about this Lucky - I considered posting this as well.

This vid was produced by Nas, in response to how hip-hop went from empowerment to ridiculously stereotypical silliness. He recruited Nick Cannon and (I believe) Affion Crockett to don blackface and perform as Shuck & Jive.


This particular embed doesn't have the explanatory message (voiced by Nas) that the original vid did (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRAgJI7aoc), and out of context this vid would seem to be totally racist. It is, however, a commentary about the degree to which *hiphop has lowered itself, and the extent to which 'artists' are whoring themselves out to corporate 'slave masters' in the name of money & fame.

See here:
http://www.ampradio.com/2009/08/nas-nick-cannon-eat-dat-watermelon/
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.3430/title.nas-nick-cannon-affion-crockett-eat-that-watermelon-psa

Tags for this video have been changed from 'nas, stereotype, step and fetch it, Nick Cannon, Affion, Satire' to 'nas, stereotype, step and fetch it, Nick Cannon, Affion Crockett, Satire' - edited by marinara

Tags for this video have been changed from 'hip hop, shuck n jive, nas, watermelon, racism, step and fetch it' to 'nas, stereotype, step and fetch it, Nick Cannon, Affion, Satire' - edited by marinara