Young Jeezy must have called in a bunch of favors because a long list of rappers appear in Who Dat. Ice Cube, Rick Ross and Fabolous all show up. DJ Khaled, Akon, Jadakiss, Young Buck and B.G. are there too. Hell, Busta Rhymes even dragged Spliff Star along to be in the video. It’s pretty impressive considering none of them are on the track.
There isn’t much to the Who Dat music video apart from that. There is the one court scene, but the rest is just Jeezy and friends standing in front of a green screen. However, it is a great music video. I still remember this being Jam of the Week on MTV Jams. I must have watched it like ten times a day.
What makes it so good is the fact the video perfectly captures the song. They dovetail so well. Considering Young Jeezy co-directed Who Dat, it is easy to see how that happened. The video was meant specifically for this song. It wasn’t a case of a director hearing the track and coming up with a story around it.
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Song: Who Dat
Artist: Young Jeezy
Year: 2008
Quote it:
I got court tomorrow
I don’t need to go
I don’t need a show
I got shit to do
Only God can judge me
Who the fuck is you?
Best Video Moment: Anything with the dorky white lawyer is pretty epic. Seeing him lose his shit at 1:43 is probably the best single moment.
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Watching the courtroom stuff play out during the Who Dat music video really adds an extra element to it. Also, the video editing here is super underrated. Everything is so smooth and seamless. That’s not always an easy feat to pull off, especially when you aren’t working with a ton of different footage.
Young Jeezy sees Who Dat get censored big time
For some reason, MTV and BET started cracking down hard on music videos in the late 2000s. The censorship got pretty lame with Young Jeezy and the Who Dat music video being a prime example of that. The overzealous dropping of lyrics is laughable.
What really takes the cake though is the blurring of stuff throughout the video. The letter “T” in Trap is censored. The logo of sports teams on hats are censored. Who is being protected here? The best part of all this is when the word brick is edited out in the song but Jeezy is holding a brick which is plainly visible.
Censorship is dumb.
