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It’s that time of the week, where we tell you what juicy videos we have in store this week for ya on MuchAXS…For all you lovas of smooth r&b and hip-hop jams then pay attention because we’ve got a whack load of some of the summer’s most poppin’ videos. We’re talking about the return of ‘the real g homie’ T.I, Gym Class Heroes, Fabulous ft. Ne-Yo (my love)…

BUT first off, let’s discuss Rihanna’s new vid ‘Shut Up and Drive.’ I thought ‘Umbrella’ would be the summer jam of ‘07 but after seeing Rihanna’s saucy new video I must say that this song is going to own. Rihanna takes a cue from *NSYNC a la the ‘Girlfriend’ days and sets the video in a garage with a bunch of her smokin’ gal pals… There’s not too much to the video besides the fact that there are hot girls and hot cars, which for some people is enough. Nevertheless, this song and vid makes you want to drive with your tops down low along the coast. I bought it, I’m sure you guys will too.

Moving onto, T.I…T.I. the full-time rapper and part-time wannabee actor tries his hand at acting in his new video ‘You Know What It Is.’ Though, he does a mediocre job of it, the song itself is catchy enough to satisfy all of your T.I. needs. It has your trademark T.I.’s ‘eh, eh, eh’ in between the chorus. Really, all this video needs is T.I. looking like his fine self to make it worthwhile
SIDENOTE: T.I. is going to be in the new Ridley Scott movie ‘American Gangster’ with Denzel Washington,Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Common and it looks GOOD - there’s probably going to be loads of Oscar buzz around this flick Watch the trailer!

BUT the one song out of all the new adds this week that completely caught me off-guard has to be The Gym Class Heroes’ ‘Clothes Off.’ DAMN. This song is tight and with Patrick Stump singing on the chorus it just makes it more solid. The video itself, matches the cool nature of the song and is worth checking out because of all the cameos…

That’s it!

p.s. Went to this crazy dance party at The Social last night and saw Thunderheist for the first time and they were PHENOMENAL. If you’re looking to find new hip-hop acts then definitely follow-up on this group. The NewMusic did a story on them a couple of weeks ago that is worth checking out!

Posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm by Jen and is filed under Music & Videos.

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