Sunday, May 1, 2011
'BANNED in the USA!!' Game's 'REDNation' video BANNED by BET & MTV
I guess it goes a long way these days to have your video BANNED on both MTV & BET. Well, Game hold that dubious honor today. Described as an all-out 'RIOT SCENE', the visual for 'REDNation' was banned from both networks because it was deemed 'too controversial'. Game took to everybody's favorite venting network, Twitter, to voice his anger.
"So BET "BANNED" the #REDNation video !!!!! Said me & @liltunechi were too gang affiliated in it."
He later said:
"This just in: the video so HARD it just got 'BANNED' from MtV too ha ha ha ha....F--- IT !!!! I'm [sic] premering it on Thursday online MYSELF!!!" He then proceeded to list outlets where the video could still be viewed. "Guess ya single gotta be called 'Bubble Gum' to get love ha ha ha....#REDNation premiering on AOL, Vivo & Worldstar Thursday.#bannedFromTV. Who needs the they tube when you got "YOUTUBE.com," Game wrote. "They banned 'ONEBLOOD' then soon as it got over 1,000,000 views on YouTube they jumped on the sack."
Game describes the video to BOOMBOX:
"We got to the video and this dude has stuff like he was shooting a video for Puff Daddy; it was lights, fire, crazy looking costumes, it was crazy!" Game told the BoomBox. "We end up doing the first scene, which is me against the wall and 100 hundred people behind the gate going crazy with this red light; it looks like a riot and it's crazy. I'm trying to deliver my lines and these people are trying to break the gate and get at me; it felt real, so that's how I knew it was going to be classic."
In this day and age, controversy surrounding a song usually pays off in the end for the artist. The more you try to censor and shut down the process, the massess want it even more. So, even if it does not run on BET or MTV, the project is not dead in the water. In the Internet age, all you have to do is put your video on a popular site and let it spread like wildfire! This is how many people today view new music content anyways. So Game is still 'WINNING'!
Shout out to WORLDSTARHIPHOP & TAYDOE TV for the EXCLUSIVE! THANKS!!!!!
The TRACK GOES HARD!!!!!
LOVE IT!
Game's fourth LP, 'The R.E.D. Album,' is scheduled to hit stores this summer.
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