Top Ten Hip Hop Videos from 2012

OK so we are already 3 months into 2013. Why am I waiting till now to post a best of 2012 list you might ask. Well a couple reasons. One I didn't think of it until today. Two, well I kinda am jealous that our fellow Mole James knows so much about music to come up with 25 albums of 2012. And third, music videos are important to Hip Hop. They visualize what the song is meant to represent. Only certain songs make the cut to get their very own video. It speaks a lot about a song for it to be made into a video. Plus I love watching them. So without further ado I present my list of top 10 Hip Hop Videos from 2012:

10. Robot by Trip Lee - Typography spot

What can I say about this video. It really isn't much of a video. It's just a bunch of words sprawled out across the screen for your viewing pleasure. However, typography's are very much a part of music videos. So I felt it necessary to put one up on the list. The song itself is a great song about how we are born as being robots to the world. We do what the world tells us to do. In the end Trip Lee uses this song to challenge us to stop being robots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qDZJJ6WUxg

9. 25 Bibles on my Dresser by DJ DMD ft. Bizzle & Jarred Phillips

This song makes our list as our fun video. DJ DMD came out with a song called 25 Lighters back in the day, but he eventually became a Christian. So he decided to remix his hit song into a Christian version. It really has no meaning behind the song except to tell us to have some fun every once in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BHMuSmZNCE

8. Loud Music by Canon ft. Derek Minor

This video is another fun type song, but I put it on here as the club hit. Hip hop culture is very much apart of the club scene. So who is to say that Christian Hip Hop can't play in that game? If I were to go into a club I would absolutely lose it if I heard this song. The video itself is a great representation of just wiling out for Jesus. Plus every video should have a gorilla suited up man walking around a grocery store c'mon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4JE6JbyzFI

7. Work by Canon

Let me just start by saying that Hip Hop kind of has this fake misconception that it's all play and no talent or work. However that's just false. There's a lot to go into it. This video gives a good representation of what exactly goes into it. The song also gives some good proof that these artists are working to pay the bills and share their ministry. "I don't need a hundred grand to stay a hundred man". 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghfHA-1stIc

6. I'm Focused by Derek Minor 

This is the old style video spot. Watching this video reminds me so much of old school videos. Cutaways, black and white, gritty spots and lines. Derek Minor was always one of my favorite rappers in the Christian scene and he delivers again here. With a ruptured Achilles heal he decides to go ahead and make this video proving ever more that he's staying focused. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSrVD3RwScA

5. Regular People by Bizzle

Well we have made it half way though. It always cracks me up how I expect these long drawn out posts and in reality they are pretty short synopsis's  This video was the first I time I ever put any thought into the idea of rappers being regular people just like me. This video does a fantastic job at showing just who these people really are. Bizzle shows that rappers aren't who they make themselves out to be in their videos all the time. They rent the cars and houses they use, they wear makeup, that's water in the cup not Cristal. It's real and gritty and just truth. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqdow8IYL1E

4. Show Me by Tony Tillman ft ZG 

OK now this is one of those videos that chokes me up a little bit. There is so much I can relate to this video. When I first was told I was going to be a father I was shocked not overjoyed. I thought I was immune to becoming a parent. Not that I was sterile or anything, but just that it shouldn't of happened to me. However, it happened so what was I going to do about it. But in the end it's God who has to show us all how to be parents. And that is something that I had to learn. this video reminds me still that I need help from the Heavenly Father to do my job correctly. Even when I think I fail, as long as I'm looking to God I'm not. This video represents these things so well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcH_6O2XB8

3. Fallin' by Trip Lee ft. J. Paul

So it may seem that most of these videos have more of a description about the song then the video. Well that's because I am not the greatest blogger out there, but the videos are all great and worthy choices for the top 10. But even I can't mess up describing the number 3's spot. This video represents pure cinematography. It matches up so well to the song that it sweeps me away every time I watch it. Trip Lee has always had the ability to make good videos. This one is probably one of his best if not hist actual best. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG723F0PWrQ

2. Church Clothes by Lecrae

Alright some of you may be surprised that I have put a Lecrae video in my top 10 list as those of you who know me know that I closely despise this cat, let alone the top 2 spot. Well not really, but he's not one of my favorites. But I can't get enough of this video. Shot from the point of view of a regular every day sinner. Why should the regular every day sinner repent when everyone else is doing what they want? Even the church is lacking. Lecrae really stepped up his game on this one. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlWvx0wdySk

1. Motivation by Thi'sl

At first glance I hated this song and video. I thought to myself this guy is talking about himself and saying he is the neighborhood's motivation. But after deeper breathing from God I see the video and song for what it truly is. God put this guy on this earth for a purpose. That purpose is to shine a light on the ghetto he lives in. The more I watch this video the more I get the impression of community and being one in the body of Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wp2EFcbmI0


Honorable Mention. End of Dayz by Sevin

This is something that I completely forgot about before so I am adding it in now. In this video we get a good testimonial and metaphor for Sevin's life. The video is beautifully portrayed with realism. It has Sevin walking through the streets as a homeless man collecting all the idols of the world; from money to the Koran and books on Scientology and witchcraft, music CDs, the American Flag, and even a bible. At the end of the video Sevin burns it all and right at the 5:50 time stamp of the video we see just what remains of it all. Truly a beautiful representation. I definitely recommend spending the 6 and a half minutes watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6hN8rxnPY

Well you have made it all the way through my top 10 list of Hip Hop videos from 2012. Thanks for checking it out. Please spread this post with all your friends. And as always stay Holy my friends.