Music Video Clichés No.3 - Boats N' Hoes

Punctuating the otherwise underwhelming Will Ferrell movie Step Brothers is a spoof that skewers that most hackneyed cliché - hip-hop’s obsession with boats and bikinis. It's a convention that's ripe for parody. More recently, The Lonely Island teamed up with T-Pain for the spot-on 'I'm On A Boat', a big-budget parody that plays on Hip-Hop Law Number 32: No major artist shalt appear in a video without several million dollars' worth of gleaming yacht somewhere in shot. [...] Read more!

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