How Busta Rhymes ruined "Arab Money"

All it took was two easy steps:

1) He hired Rik Cordero to direct the video.

Hiring Rik Cordero, aka the cancer of music videos (note that I can't claim credit for that one - it was some douche in the comments section over at XXL), to direct your video is automatic fail anyway, in that it's not gonna be any good. Even if it only costs $700 to make, it's gonna look like it cost less.

But Busta Rhymes pretty much invented the big budget rap video back in the 1990s. He can't just switch to doing shitty, low budget videos 15 years into his career. As Elliott Wilson would say, it's just not good for his brand. He might as well just use his album budget to take a single page ad in the Times that says, "I'm not as important as I used to be."

2) He let the TIs talk him into changing A-rab money to Ah-rab money.

Who the fuck says Ah-rab? Maybe it's not as offensive as saying A-rab (which is to say, kinda), but the whole rest of the video is still a fucking Arab-themed minstrel show. You think any of the PC types who were pissed at it being A-rab money are gonna care that he changed it to Ah-rab money?

Check the video for yourself after the jump.