Most Expensive Rap Video - RRT

**Pirate X.** · 10-07-2007, 10:51 PM

YouTube - Puff Daddy ft. Busta Rhymes & Notorious BIG - Victory

"Victory"
Cost: $2,700,000+
Artist: Puff Daddy (featuring Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes)

"Victory," like 5 others of the videos on this list, is a rap video, and what a rap video "Victory" is. It has everything, including exploding airplanes, suicidal leaps from buildings, helicopters, and shootouts. Like much of Puff Daddy's repertoire, this video is about a man's escape from the police who are wrongly accusing him of a crime. As P.D. runs across the city's rooftops, a bunch of snobs in a party look out the window at the ensuing action, obviously wishing that they had such excitement in their lives. And playing through the background of the entire video is an opera aria that lends the entire video a dramatic flair. While it may not have much computer animation, this video definitely has a "movie feel" to it; this level of detail is what makes the video cost so much, and seem so cool.

* Building an airplane and blowing it up: $55,000
* Pyrotechnic special effects: $100,000
* Artificial rain: $10,000
* Helicopter rental: $21,000
* Stuntman fee: $5,000 per jump from building to building
* Security on the set: $10,000