I saw over a decade ago that proved that not only was the crib with the guy sleeping on the floor was fake but 90% of the stuff in the show was purchased less than 2 days before at a Walmart. The Spuds bog poster thing was a remake sold at Walmart and someone at Walmart came out instantly and proved it with the receipts that the MTV left at the registers. Also the guy that was sleeping was a member of the MTV staff they literally had pretend to sleep and the guy showing off the crib didn't even know the guy at all. The ones that seem to hold up better are because MTV made them look relatable but in reality were not relatable at all and in fact the fakest part of the show.
A severely underrated one is Ying Yang Twins, who rented a house that looked absolutely nothing like anything two young rappers would live in and hilariously clowned on the pretense the entire time.
It sounds weird to us now, since we take for granted that we are able to basically "chat" with celebrieties on Twitter and stuff. But back in the day, we knew celebrities only from movies and music videos. So watching someone famous going around their own personal kitchen like "Yo, this is where I eat my cereals" just felt unreal and cool af.
Social media normalized seeing absolutely anything in the blink of an eye unfortunately. The feeling of seeing somebody famous on stage or in real life is gone. We see all. we know all (if you do your research).
@@passionsv.2right these artist aren’t even necessarily famous anymore. I remember seeing 50cent in the airport and everyone going crazy. You can see trippie redd today and just walk by lol
I feel like record labels probably had some part in this. They didn't want people to see how much they were ripping off these musicians. It probably helped trick new people into contracts and keep the cycle going.
I remember listening to Howard Stern talking about Cribs years ago when it was still on the air, and he pointed out how anyone who knows anything about how the recording industry works knows that most artists start out owing their labels so much money that it takes at least three or four hit songs before they really start making real money for themselves. So there's no way these artists with only one hit song to their names could possibly afford massive mansions and fleets of super cars.
True because most first time artists don’t get paid until a few albums & most people them had bad contracts in which they weren’t able to buy anything.
Fun fact, I was on set for the filming of the episode with Mario(R&B Singer from Baltimore….not Sisquo lol). His “Crib” was a model unit at Silo Point here in Baltimore. So it wasn’t even a lived in or rented unit. None of the stuff in there was his either. Including the iPhone used to control the A/V system. There was also a rental Maserati. I know the 5 series BMW was his because I ran into him at a bar a few months later.
There are some rappers who go against the grain and don't feel the need to flaunt their wealth, but it's definitely not the majority. It sucks that the music can't just speak for itself.
I also loved his hallway that was full of photos with him and other famous figures, like the president, and it was sooooo obvious that all of them were photoshopped. He knew it was obvious too which just helped sell the joke so well.
Redman's episode was great. The fake ones were so obvious you'd see like one artist that had only had one hit at the time or weren't even known internationally and they had these huge mansions and you were just like nah I don't belive it.
@@ps-yk8su master p and crew was legit wealthy tho, snoop said all you saw in they music videos and home made movies and shit was all legit they own cars and money and all that.
@@kamenanew9867 yea people forget that his net worth towards the end of the 90s was over 600 million. theres a tosh.o segment where he does a " guess this celebrity's net worth ", and its a picture of master p. people were guessing on the low end and he showed the actual net worth and it was well over 600 million. ive seen hella people recently comment how master p is actually, what people think jay z is. ive been a soldier since 97 lmao when i was 10. seen every movie and heard every album up to about 2001.and yea like you said, just ask snoop. hes so supportive of p. he knows those miller boys are the truth. free c murder!!
Watching that clip of Moby made me literally say out loud, " yeah that's definitely a real musician's home." 😂 A lot of them live for the fame but some live for the music.
Red man’s episode was the best - especially looking back. It was honest and humble, and in this day and age of fact checking and being able to check someone’s story? Those were the best.
Love Redman’s episode. Could see him being the type of guy who drives a 1994 Acura Vigor with 400,000 miles on it and faded paint with 9 figures in the bank.
fake it till you make it. mostly popular in the rap industry. it's practically a tradition for newcomers showing off jewelry and cars and a lifestyle they can't afford.
A lot of the wealth you see from rappers is fake. They rent jewelry, they rent cars for music videos, they use stacks of movie prop cash for their stupid photos.
The years prior to "The Real World" definitely looked to be the golden age of MTV, where-as the 2000s era that I grew up with was the bronze age. And the current age is just the uncontrollable vomit era.
@@MediaPastimes I remember watching the premier of MTV and from that day all the way up to "The Real World" we legit had a TV that played only MTV every day all day. Everybody at school knew all the new videos that came out and we all went home and when we weren't out riding bikes or doing something otherwise outside we would hang out at one of our houses with MTV at least in the background. That started to change around the time "The Real World" came out but by then I was older and had a kid and a job so life was already different but I still miss those days
We only had basic cable when it came out. I didn't get MTv until 1989 when I was 19. I used to watch it at my friends houses. By 1985 I could tell it was already going to an all modern pop format, which didn't appeal to me. When the original Headbangers Ball went off air, they lost all relevance. Basically, I was forced by my cable provider to have it as part of the expanded/full package I had.
Fun fact: mtv to this day still does the same thing, except now it's on their TV show "catfish." Majority of the people's "houses" they go to are actually rented out air BnB's. There's been multiple guests who have done AMA's on reddit that have admitted mtv rented a local air bnb and passed it off on the episode as belonging to the person on the episode. Presumably it's partially a safety thing as to not give away where the people actually live, and also they can rent a big enough house to fit the film crew inside comfortably plus the people on the show and the hosts
They did the same thing with Pimp My Ride. I get the safety concerns, but for a show where the person is giving an "intimate tour" of their home... all I ask is that they show their actual home.
According to some of the people who were on Pimp My Ride, if their house didn't look good for TV the producers just moved them into a nice rented house for Xzibit to roll up on.
@@SEEYAIAYE Nah, every house was rented. I made an entire video about PMR and consulted a former contestant who said that every home shown on PMR was in close proximity to West Coast Customs or GAS, because Xzibit legitimately drove the contestant vehicles to the shops.
I think its great how Redman endeared himself to a plethora of kids/teens by just being himself and showing off his true home, not some rented place. Id say his episode is the most remembered and discussed to this day; i know its my favorite episode.
Wasn’t it her pool flanked by classical Roman/ Grecian statues? Some urban woman with new money said “ you know they be missin arms or whateva, is how you tell they worf $o much” 🙄
They can try and revive it and make it what it was before, but Architectural Digest has taken the crown of this kinda content. They've already got videos with modern celebrities and they have more time to go in depth on the houses
Not only that, but MTV doesn't have nearly as much appeal in the youth and college markets. Only millennials, Gen X, and boomers still torture themselves with marathons of Ridiculousness and Catfish 😅
I'll never forget when Kelly Rowland was giving her tour, but couldn't remember any facts about the place. Kept stumbling to explaon what everything was, that was when I realized it was fake. 😂
Redman was the only one that kept it real, and people could relate to it plus it was entertaining. Seeing one of his friends sleeping on the floor was hilarious
Ying Yang Twins will forever be my favorite episode. "First room you're gonna SEE is the SEA ROOM! This didn't take no wo-man. It took us men!" So many great quotes.
There were more legitimate segments than just Redman, but a good 80-90% of the homes toured on CRIBS displayed something that was planted for the show. Problem is, a lot of those old episodes are long gone due to copyright issues. So many songs were used in the background of these episodes, and MTV doesn’t want to pay royalties to those artists.
@@napalm_lipbalm86that wasn’t JoJos house. It was a family members house. I didn’t believe it was hers because she had a lot of hits out when that came out. I didn’t know she got screwed over though. I just thought she’d have a bigger house is all when I was a kid.
I remember watching red man’s episode as a kid and being too tears. Watching his segment in the vid brought those same feeling back. His episode in my opinion aged the best. I been going back and revisiting 2000s reality TV like True life and Pimp my ride. Honestly red man’s mtv crib tour and ODB’s limo segment of him and his children getting food stamps is probably some of the best early IRL moments on TV. Love the vid, very well done and nostalgic af haha
I agree the Redman episode was hands down the best one ever. I remember me and my brother watching it and wondering if it was legit or if he was just being funny (because that's how he is) Turned out to be legit though and I respect tf out of him for keeping it 100% in not posing and faking a lifestyle that he wasn't really living (like so many of them do) It tokes a REAL mf to keep it REAL and not pitch more fakeness and ilusion to the world like it's all luxury and glitz and glamour
It's funny when you really think about it, these mfs are actually selling them more slavery in pretending they're living the high life like "Yeahhhh look at how good I'm doing don't you want to come live like this?" When in actuality they aren't even living like that and know the slaves they've become thrmselves
When I was Teen watching these in the 2000's, I thought how could these celebs spend all their wealth in just Ludacris ways, well now seeing it from a adult's eye most were no way near as wealthy as they make out. But, quite honestly I still enjoy these shows because of all these things I listed. Great vid!
I didn't speak English when I was younger, so I learned about MTV Cribs later on, but my favourite was most definitely YingYang Twins' episode, it was so clearly not their house, it was like some soccer mom's suburban house, it was hilarious
Miss that period of “excess” in the early 2000’s. As a kid growing up in that era, anything felt possible, there was a great sense of optimism reflected in media. DUB cars, “crunk” rap, lavish mansions on Cribs, everything was about Beverly Hills etc. Things haven’t really felt the same since. World is a lot more jaded nowadays, or maybe I just grew up, idk :(
I miss the early 00s so much. Just a simpler time. MTV was must watch television at those times. I remember watching The Real World and thinking "Wow that's what being an adult is like". My favorite part of Cribs were the cars. If you read DuPont Registry back in those days, it was like watching that magazine on a CRT TV Screen. I vaguely remember a Cash Money episode with Birdman and Lil Wayne that I loved. Trick Daddy had one where I think his girlfriend or something was frying chicken in the kitchen lol
The Ozzy episode is interesting to look back on before the whole Osbournemania started as everyone looked so different: Kelly was a blonde teenybopper, Sharon was a typical relaxed and low key mom, and Ozzy was intelligible. Lol
This video was great. Admittedly, I haven't seen an episode of 'Cribs' in at least 16-17 years. Even then, I knew that some of the celebrity homes/cars, etc. had to be a set-up. Anyway, thanks for highlighting some of the more egregious segments. I got a HUGE laugh out of both Sum41's and Red Man's cribs...downright hilarious (the random cousin sleeping on the floor was gold).
Man, looking at MTV Cribs in my 30s, '00s celebrity affluence feels empty and sterile. It's even worse now obviously, but I see now where it all started.
W comment here. Got one guy living in a house with 25 bedrooms. Like, WTF you gonna do with all those rooms? It’s all about the machismo and putting on “the show” for everyone. A lot of these guys learned the hard way, however, because a lot of them went bankrupt.
i mean, i always thought it was weird for a well known celeb to invite a film crew into their actual private residence. maybe they brought a couple things they owned to show off but i always kept wondering, "wow, they're not worried about stalkers?"
Birdman did own his mansion. Sadly it's abandoned and taken over by mother nature. ALSO, in the 80s when MTV was created, they played nothing but music. I miss those times. 😭
I was a gullible kid I thought it was all real lol, Lil Wayne recently said he wants to fire his accountant because his net worth is nowhere close to what Forbes claim it is, Giselle Buchden said the same thing.
Jermaine Dupri saying "you ain't no big dog unless you got one of these" referring to his Bentley, literally made Bentleys popular af over night. And there were a bunch of episodes that came after where people said they literally went out and bought a Bentley because JD compelled them to with that line on Cribs.
I always thought those mansions looked fake. Like how someone would stage a house to be sold-not like someone actually living in it. I figured that they would clean up before MTV cameras got there. The Marylin Manson episode made me suspect that it was a rental home due to how ordinary it looked for Marylin Manson-and the cheap Halloween Store spooky stuff there was.
The performer's personal style would be tacky as hell, yet their house looked like an art museum. Plus, they only had three hit songs at best, yet they lived like Bill gates.
I’ll never forget how Lil John made sure everyone knew that he had the exact same rug in his bedroom as Usher. And that one guy who showed off his Crystal Light
It seemed to me that some of those houses were too expensive for some of the celebrities on "Cribs". People with one hit song or a recurring role on a sit com had mansions with stables sitting on huge plots of land and a garage with five luxury cars. It was questionable even then so this makes a lot of sense.
its not fakery, its early influencing business. very good productplacement opportunities like the fridge and the garage. To have products placed in celebreties big houses is just so smart. like at min 13:34..
50 cents pontiacs were not his either. They were on loan from a dealer (I saw one for sale). I also love that he got lost several times in the house during filming.
Ja Rule is the biggest goofball in the universe. Also Vin Diesel and Ja Rule are definitely related. You can’t tell me otherwise. They have the same voice
Plot twist! We can’t take any of it with us. So technically everything is rented / borrowed. Some people can just borrow better things, on better terms and for longer than others.
I still remember mid 90s to late 90s and really early 2000s watching music videos none stop late night or really early in the morning the good old days and in the 90s watching beavis n butthead roast music videos lol those were the days best days that we will never come close to getting back I’ll never forget beavis n butthead watching smells like teen spirit when it’s starting they see the janitor and butthead says “beavis’s dad” lol
Wait, wasn't Prestige the same company Bowwow took the picture from of the car and private jet, insinuating that he was traveling in them? Then someone saw him in coach at the exact same time he posted the photo?
MTVcribs with help from BlockBuster's used videos, caused me to have a massive DVD collection. Since I couldn't afford the car collections (neither could they apparently) but almost every episode had to mention their DVD collection and then pulling out Scarface.
My favorite is still the Jackass one. Turns out the Chris Pontius living in his car was real since he didn't move into a house until he had a family in 2010s.
Imagine being knocked out sleep, then you wake up and the house is empty and then a week later you look at the TV and you're on MTV with a super zoom on you sleeping 😂
In Consumerist, Consumption Heavy 1980’s, Lifestyles of the R & F was KING! Showed audiences what REAL Wealth looks like - giving an incredibly rare look at “how the other half lives.”
Redman’s episode sticks out in my mind as being a kid and seeing someone actually being genuine with their lifestyle. Already a Wu fan, but this really made me respect him even more. … goes to prove, if they stuck with the basic formula of cribs, and didn’t fake anything- chances are, it would’ve been more successful with a balance of lifestyles of fame… There really are people with fame on both sides of the wealth spectrum- and they had the opportunity to showcase that.😊
Another great video, man! Did you ever see the Ricky Gervais Cribs parody? I think it was an extra on the Invention of lying DVD. I seem to recall it being pretty funny, but my brain could just be bullshitting me I dunno 🤷
There were so. many. parodies... I legit had to scroll past like, dozens of them while searching out clips for this. But I haven't seen that one, although Ricky Gervais does rock 🤙
thats brazy! NEVER RENTED ANYTHING. prestige imports is where i bought my orange lamb from its in miami. call brett david the owner of the dealership and ask em …. matter of fact he came out and said he sold me my lamb. NOTHING FAKE ON CRIBS. the miami crib NOT A RENTAL. it was mine.
I wasn't expecting to feel sorry for some of these celebs, but some had giant empty mansions that looked like an art museum. It didn't seem like anyone actually enjoyed life there.
15:18 Yes! I remember this episode! God that was the best cribs for me! I remember watching with my friend's fam and we just laughed out loud. "This guy is living in his truck!" 😂
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That Vin diesel joke was so bad it made me laugh. Vin diesel isn't even that big.
@@mikejones1298 @vindiesel this guy has something to say to u
WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE BABY LOTIONS FOR FOR💀💀💀💀💀💀
Uhm, actually he lifted a car in Fast X so clearly he's jacked.
I saw over a decade ago that proved that not only was the crib with the guy sleeping on the floor was fake but 90% of the stuff in the show was purchased less than 2 days before at a Walmart. The Spuds bog poster thing was a remake sold at Walmart and someone at Walmart came out instantly and proved it with the receipts that the MTV left at the registers. Also the guy that was sleeping was a member of the MTV staff they literally had pretend to sleep and the guy showing off the crib didn't even know the guy at all. The ones that seem to hold up better are because MTV made them look relatable but in reality were not relatable at all and in fact the fakest part of the show.
Red man episode is a classic. Rubbing two wires together to get the door bell had me rofling
He still lives there, too. I know he did an updated tour of it at some point but I couldn’t find it 🤔
I love that one so much, I remember watching that and my mom chiming in about how much she liked his attitude :p
Didn’t he have cousin /friend sleeping on the couch and large media collection😂
@@yukimasaheppe Yep, it was his cousin. 😅 #ShitExhibit
@Yukimasa Heppe yeah, or the floor or something 😂
Redman's cribs is the essence of MTV. That's what it was supposed to be but it wanted to be so Hollywood.
His was the best.
That was the best episode ever and he was💯 " De La Casa"
Yes but his episode was boring. I wanted to see houses nicer than mines not the Same ones or ngl worse.
@@TheBasher-_- damn. You live in a big house too?
A severely underrated one is Ying Yang Twins, who rented a house that looked absolutely nothing like anything two young rappers would live in and hilariously clowned on the pretense the entire time.
Redman is an honest dude. What a legend.
His house looked cozy 😊
It sounds weird to us now, since we take for granted that we are able to basically "chat" with celebrieties on Twitter and stuff. But back in the day, we knew celebrities only from movies and music videos. So watching someone famous going around their own personal kitchen like "Yo, this is where I eat my cereals" just felt unreal and cool af.
That’s a solid point!!!!!
Well said!
Social media normalized seeing absolutely anything in the blink of an eye unfortunately. The feeling of seeing somebody famous on stage or in real life is gone. We see all. we know all (if you do your research).
@@passionsv.2right these artist aren’t even necessarily famous anymore. I remember seeing 50cent in the airport and everyone going crazy. You can see trippie redd today and just walk by lol
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I feel like record labels probably had some part in this. They didn't want people to see how much they were ripping off these musicians.
It probably helped trick new people into contracts and keep the cycle going.
I think so too. The record companies would rent a house for their hot star and say it's yours. The yours part was very relative of course.
1000%
Get it
This comment is anti-Semitic.
as well as sell expensive products and the illusion of "success" to dumb teenagers.
I remember listening to Howard Stern talking about Cribs years ago when it was still on the air, and he pointed out how anyone who knows anything about how the recording industry works knows that most artists start out owing their labels so much money that it takes at least three or four hit songs before they really start making real money for themselves. So there's no way these artists with only one hit song to their names could possibly afford massive mansions and fleets of super cars.
Depends were you live. Look at 50 cents 52 room mansion. It only cost $4,000,000. You cant even get a house for less than $1,000,000 where I live.
@@bobo42024 Big 🧢 But hey I guess you can be anyone you want on the internet.
@@jesusshuttlesworth8972 nah thats jus how it is in the city
True because most first time artists don’t get paid until a few albums & most people them had bad contracts in which they weren’t able to buy anything.
@bobo42024 You gotta sell millions of copies to earn that 4M. If you dont, you lose it all! That's the bigger point here.
Don't forget every rapper on cribs had the line "gotta have the Scarface" when showing off the DVDs or else they weren't gangsta
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 & their white robes.
That’s how I learned about that movie!😅 Had to have my mom explain to me why so many rappers loved that film.
Fat joe n dem
That happened in 1 single episode.
The Redman episode was hands down the best one.
Them and the jackass crew
Facts👍
Fun fact, I was on set for the filming of the episode with Mario(R&B Singer from Baltimore….not Sisquo lol). His “Crib” was a model unit at Silo Point here in Baltimore. So it wasn’t even a lived in or rented unit. None of the stuff in there was his either. Including the iPhone used to control the A/V system. There was also a rental Maserati. I know the 5 series BMW was his because I ran into him at a bar a few months later.
Smh
rappers are the epitome of "fake it till you make it" and even when they've made it they will still fake it....
There are some rappers who go against the grain and don't feel the need to flaunt their wealth, but it's definitely not the majority. It sucks that the music can't just speak for itself.
Criminally underrated comment!
i thought every celebrity in the history of entertainment fakes it til they make it. rappers are just the latest example
That’s how you keep your money.
Except Redman
Ryan Nyquist's joke about the crystal light was actually hilarious
Yeah it was totes magotes LOL. I LOL’d like sooooo haaarrddd
his complete episode was hilarious
I also loved his hallway that was full of photos with him and other famous figures, like the president, and it was sooooo obvious that all of them were photoshopped. He knew it was obvious too which just helped sell the joke so well.
@@E2theBizzle Lol I just remembered that. Your username is EXTREMELY 2000s 😂 110%
@@johnwayne3904 Seeing as I made my account in September of 2006 and never changed the name, you would be correct.
Redman's episode was great. The fake ones were so obvious you'd see like one artist that had only had one hit at the time or weren't even known internationally and they had these huge mansions and you were just like nah I don't belive it.
Silk the Shocker
@@ps-yk8su master p and crew was legit wealthy tho, snoop said all you saw in they music videos and home made movies and shit was all legit they own cars and money and all that.
Was Aaron Carter's episode fake too?
Redman the goat
@@kamenanew9867 yea people forget that his net worth towards the end of the 90s was over 600 million. theres a tosh.o segment where he does a " guess this celebrity's net worth ", and its a picture of master p. people were guessing on the low end and he showed the actual net worth and it was well over 600 million. ive seen hella people recently comment how master p is actually, what people think jay z is. ive been a soldier since 97 lmao when i was 10. seen every movie and heard every album up to about 2001.and yea like you said, just ask snoop. hes so supportive of p. he knows those miller boys are the truth.
free c murder!!
TLC used to be The Learning Channel. Now, I'm pretty sure it stands for Terrible Life Choices.
TLC will help you learn about the 600lb sisters, which is more valuable than anything else.
😂😂😂
Lolz!
Love it lol
Exactly
"The first three houses on Cribs are Moby, Ozzy Osbourne, and Jewel."
Say a more 2000 sentence. I DARE you.
And the wild thing is, all three of those people are still extremely relevant.
I like it here. Good times.
Watching that clip of Moby made me literally say out loud, " yeah that's definitely a real musician's home." 😂 A lot of them live for the fame but some live for the music.
"GIT-R-DONE"
There. Now that's about us " 2000s" as it gets.
I like no doubt and Korn
Redman's episode when he shows the tiny ass closet... "I got a walk in closet...I step in, I step out. You walk in, you walk out." Lmao
he’s not wrong…he showed that it’s a bad name for a closet!
14:17 “His bedroom had a Sega Dreamcast and a bottle of baby lotion set up on the nightstand….” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂Dead.
Red man’s episode was the best - especially looking back. It was honest and humble, and in this day and age of fact checking and being able to check someone’s story? Those were the best.
Love Redman’s episode. Could see him being the type of guy who drives a 1994 Acura Vigor with 400,000 miles on it and faded paint with 9 figures in the bank.
You mean driving a broke vigor.
I always use to wonder how artists I’ve never even heard of had such lavish homes. Makes so much sense now.
Or just Google it
Just because you haven’t heard of them don’t mean shit
Who are you referring to? They were all pretty famous, lol
fake it till you make it. mostly popular in the rap industry. it's practically a tradition for newcomers showing off jewelry and cars and a lifestyle they can't afford.
A lot of the wealth you see from rappers is fake. They rent jewelry, they rent cars for music videos, they use stacks of movie prop cash for their stupid photos.
I remember when MTV first aired and for about a year and half there wasn't any commercials.
The years prior to "The Real World" definitely looked to be the golden age of MTV, where-as the 2000s era that I grew up with was the bronze age. And the current age is just the uncontrollable vomit era.
@@MediaPastimes I guess you could say their current age is, ridiclous ;)
I remember when the black music artist MTV played was Michael Jackson
@@MediaPastimes I remember watching the premier of MTV and from that day all the way up to "The Real World" we legit had a TV that played only MTV every day all day. Everybody at school knew all the new videos that came out and we all went home and when we weren't out riding bikes or doing something otherwise outside we would hang out at one of our houses with MTV at least in the background. That started to change around the time "The Real World" came out but by then I was older and had a kid and a job so life was already different but I still miss those days
We only had basic cable when it came out. I didn't get MTv until 1989 when I was 19.
I used to watch it at my friends houses. By 1985 I could tell it was already going to an all modern pop format, which didn't appeal to me. When the original Headbangers Ball went off air, they lost all relevance.
Basically, I was forced by my cable provider to have it as part of the expanded/full package I had.
Fun fact: mtv to this day still does the same thing, except now it's on their TV show "catfish." Majority of the people's "houses" they go to are actually rented out air BnB's. There's been multiple guests who have done AMA's on reddit that have admitted mtv rented a local air bnb and passed it off on the episode as belonging to the person on the episode. Presumably it's partially a safety thing as to not give away where the people actually live, and also they can rent a big enough house to fit the film crew inside comfortably plus the people on the show and the hosts
They did the same thing with Pimp My Ride. I get the safety concerns, but for a show where the person is giving an "intimate tour" of their home... all I ask is that they show their actual home.
According to some of the people who were on Pimp My Ride, if their house didn't look good for TV the producers just moved them into a nice rented house for Xzibit to roll up on.
@@SEEYAIAYE Nah, every house was rented. I made an entire video about PMR and consulted a former contestant who said that every home shown on PMR was in close proximity to West Coast Customs or GAS, because Xzibit legitimately drove the contestant vehicles to the shops.
for JoJo it made sense, she was still a young teen when it aired so she at least deserved to not have stalkers after her
That's what u get for watching catfish like what
I think its great how Redman endeared himself to a plethora of kids/teens by just being himself and showing off his true home, not some rented place. Id say his episode is the most remembered and discussed to this day; i know its my favorite episode.
Redman had the greatest episode ever! The realist guy in the game.
They did the edits to like he had a mansion 😂
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I’ll never forget Missy Elliot’s insane legit car bed 😂
Ferrari Testarossa!
Also her big signature at the entrance of her crib inside
I’ll never forget her elevator
Wasn’t it her pool flanked by classical Roman/ Grecian statues? Some urban woman with new money said “ you know they be missin arms or whateva, is how you tell they worf $o much” 🙄
They can try and revive it and make it what it was before, but Architectural Digest has taken the crown of this kinda content. They've already got videos with modern celebrities and they have more time to go in depth on the houses
Not only that, but MTV doesn't have nearly as much appeal in the youth and college markets. Only millennials, Gen X, and boomers still torture themselves with marathons of Ridiculousness and Catfish 😅
I'll never forget when Kelly Rowland was giving her tour, but couldn't remember any facts about the place. Kept stumbling to explaon what everything was, that was when I realized it was fake. 😂
Most of them have multiple houses and most of them weren't even mansions
I get a little emotional everytime I find videos of throw back shows from MTV. I miss the channel when it was classic.
I miss when it used to show music videos, 40 years ago.
Redman was the only one that kept it real, and people could relate to it plus it was entertaining. Seeing one of his friends sleeping on the floor was hilarious
Ying Yang Twins will forever be my favorite episode. "First room you're gonna SEE is the SEA ROOM! This didn't take no wo-man. It took us men!" So many great quotes.
When I was a kid I thought all of this was %100 real , it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I thought maybe some of it was staged
There were more legitimate segments than just Redman, but a good 80-90% of the homes toured on CRIBS displayed something that was planted for the show.
Problem is, a lot of those old episodes are long gone due to copyright issues. So many songs were used in the background of these episodes, and MTV doesn’t want to pay royalties to those artists.
@@mattalan6618 and Jojo's. She literally sat on a Sit and Spin in a house she grew up in looked like mine I grew up in.
Ok so? Then
I thought this and pimp my ride was 100%real turns out it isnt
@@napalm_lipbalm86that wasn’t JoJos house. It was a family members house. I didn’t believe it was hers because she had a lot of hits out when that came out. I didn’t know she got screwed over though. I just thought she’d have a bigger house is all when I was a kid.
Wow Redmans crib. That N64 "Ready to Rumble 2" case really brought me back.
Those games ruled 🥊
I remember watching red man’s episode as a kid and being too tears. Watching his segment in the vid brought those same feeling back. His episode in my opinion aged the best. I been going back and revisiting 2000s reality TV like True life and Pimp my ride. Honestly red man’s mtv crib tour and ODB’s limo segment of him and his children getting food stamps is probably some of the best early IRL moments on TV. Love the vid, very well done and nostalgic af haha
Even as a kid, i thought "I would never show my house for the world to see, even worse if i was a celebrity"
It comes as no surprise whatsoever that Redman is down to earth and feels better keeping it real.
I agree the Redman episode was hands down the best one ever. I remember me and my brother watching it and wondering if it was legit or if he was just being funny (because that's how he is)
Turned out to be legit though and I respect tf out of him for keeping it 100% in not posing and faking a lifestyle that he wasn't really living (like so many of them do)
It tokes a REAL mf to keep it REAL and not pitch more fakeness and ilusion to the world like it's all luxury and glitz and glamour
It's funny when you really think about it, these mfs are actually selling them more slavery in pretending they're living the high life like
"Yeahhhh look at how good I'm doing don't you want to come live like this?"
When in actuality they aren't even living like that and know the slaves they've become thrmselves
I loved this show as a little kid. It expanded my mind as an aspiring artist. Love how you flip the words around in your outro
Are we gonna pretend that this isn’t the problem with a lot of the influencer home tours? 😂
I can’t believe they still are making them 😂 I thought this was over a long time ago
Redman had the best episode by far lol It was funny as hell.
This video was literally just recommended to me and I am so happy! The nostalgia from my teen years is bursting 😂 thank you for making this video 😊
When I was Teen watching these in the 2000's, I thought how could these celebs spend all their wealth in just Ludacris ways, well now seeing it from a adult's eye most were no way near as wealthy as they make out. But, quite honestly I still enjoy these shows because of all these things I listed. Great vid!
I didn't speak English when I was younger, so I learned about MTV Cribs later on, but my favourite was most definitely YingYang Twins' episode, it was so clearly not their house, it was like some soccer mom's suburban house, it was hilarious
That’s when i realized this show may not be legit.
Cribs made us dream as kids
Miss that period of “excess” in the early 2000’s. As a kid growing up in that era, anything felt possible, there was a great sense of optimism reflected in media. DUB cars, “crunk” rap, lavish mansions on Cribs, everything was about Beverly Hills etc. Things haven’t really felt the same since. World is a lot more jaded nowadays, or maybe I just grew up, idk :(
I miss the early 00s so much. Just a simpler time. MTV was must watch television at those times. I remember watching The Real World and thinking "Wow that's what being an adult is like". My favorite part of Cribs were the cars. If you read DuPont Registry back in those days, it was like watching that magazine on a CRT TV Screen. I vaguely remember a Cash Money episode with Birdman and Lil Wayne that I loved. Trick Daddy had one where I think his girlfriend or something was frying chicken in the kitchen lol
The Ozzy episode is interesting to look back on before the whole Osbournemania started as everyone looked so different: Kelly was a blonde teenybopper, Sharon was a typical relaxed and low key mom, and Ozzy was intelligible. Lol
And I was called a "conspiracy theorist" when I said the same thing at the time.
Nice that you caught up
The show really motivated me to try to get enough money to have mansions like these celebs… I guess it didn’t motivate me enough 😭
You can still motivated to rented some mansion though 😁
Hahaha! 😂 Didn't We All. Fun ride though
How is your life now compared to these celebs? lol
Mariah Carey’s episode is very real though. It’s really her NYC appartement that she bought when she left her first husband in the late 90´s.
I didn't diss Mariah, her episode was legendary.
@@MediaPastimes I knooowwww you didn’t ! I was just saying, just a little info ! You did an amazing job! For real
Eminem was in there with her lol
This the only other episode I remember besides REDMAN’S
@@roseroselyne9045 you meant M&MS ? 😌
This was well done. Brought back memories for sure. Keep up the good work!
Thank you 🙏🏻
This video was great. Admittedly, I haven't seen an episode of 'Cribs' in at least 16-17 years. Even then, I knew that some of the celebrity homes/cars, etc. had to be a set-up.
Anyway, thanks for highlighting some of the more egregious segments. I got a HUGE laugh out of both Sum41's and Red Man's cribs...downright hilarious (the random cousin sleeping on the floor was gold).
Man, looking at MTV Cribs in my 30s, '00s celebrity affluence feels empty and sterile. It's even worse now obviously, but I see now where it all started.
W comment here. Got one guy living in a house with 25 bedrooms. Like, WTF you gonna do with all those rooms? It’s all about the machismo and putting on “the show” for everyone. A lot of these guys learned the hard way, however, because a lot of them went bankrupt.
Underrated comment
i mean, i always thought it was weird for a well known celeb to invite a film crew into their actual private residence. maybe they brought a couple things they owned to show off but i always kept wondering, "wow, they're not worried about stalkers?"
Birdman did own his mansion. Sadly it's abandoned and taken over by mother nature.
ALSO, in the 80s when MTV was created, they played nothing but music. I miss those times. 😭
You gotta be in your 40s. A little too old to be watching MTV
Unfortunately, being a music only channel wasn't profitable, so they either had to change the programming or eventually go bankrupt.
The one on the show was rented. He actually went into foreclosure on his real house that was much smaller than the Cribs rented house he showed
5:41 Damn, Ryan Dunne with his cars. If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye then I don't know what would. Rest in peace.
I can remember being a kid watching Cribs regularly believing it 100% hook line and sinker
I was a gullible kid I thought it was all real lol, Lil Wayne recently said he wants to fire his accountant because his net worth is nowhere close to what Forbes claim it is, Giselle Buchden said the same thing.
Damn the Redman episode makes me feel old I was 21 when that episode dropped. Lol I was high as hell watching it 😂😂😂😂😂
Jermaine Dupri saying "you ain't no big dog unless you got one of these" referring to his Bentley, literally made Bentleys popular af over night. And there were a bunch of episodes that came after where people said they literally went out and bought a Bentley because JD compelled them to with that line on Cribs.
I knew that house that 3LW used wasn’t theirs because they didn’t know where shit was😂😂😂😂
And on top of that they didn't even get alone
Redman's "Cribs" episode was the most iconic of all! It's the only one that I still remember 20+ years later.
I always thought those mansions looked fake. Like how someone would stage a house to be sold-not like someone actually living in it. I figured that they would clean up before MTV cameras got there.
The Marylin Manson episode made me suspect that it was a rental home due to how ordinary it looked for Marylin Manson-and the cheap Halloween Store spooky stuff there was.
The performer's personal style would be tacky as hell, yet their house looked like an art museum. Plus, they only had three hit songs at best, yet they lived like Bill gates.
I’m glad you covered the red man episode. It is the best cribs episode and I love that he kept it real.
I’ll never forget how Lil John made sure everyone knew that he had the exact same rug in his bedroom as Usher. And that one guy who showed off his Crystal Light
those Gorton's™ Fish Fillets are actually pretty damn good in the air fryer. redman is so real for that.
Moby had a view of the Twin Towers! @3:40
I love that you made it a fact that mtv literally was our hub to watch and listen to music
Redman was the only one with the real house 💯
@5:29 that "cristal light" joke was pure gold!
It seemed to me that some of those houses were too expensive for some of the celebrities on "Cribs". People with one hit song or a recurring role on a sit com had mansions with stables sitting on huge plots of land and a garage with five luxury cars. It was questionable even then so this makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, those were more like Record Label Executive level homes. 😂
its not fakery, its early influencing business. very good productplacement opportunities like the fridge and the garage. To have products placed in celebreties big houses is just so smart. like at min 13:34..
This is making me feel super old.
That Redman segment is forever iconic
I remember realizing Robbie Williams English estate wasn’t his. Recognized Jane Seymour’s St Catherine’s Court.
In my research I saw that she’s always been very public when it comes to that castle, it’s hilarious that he tried to pass it off as his own.
@@MediaPastimes Right? I think they had rented it out to record in & then just stayed to do CRIBS.
I really enjoyed this channel, this was my era. Love it
50 cents pontiacs were not his either. They were on loan from a dealer (I saw one for sale). I also love that he got lost several times in the house during filming.
I couldnt stand the man, total idiot - Very happy to see that he didnt own the hos and he later went bust
I remember seeing Redman's legendary episode when I was younger. He had the best episode... True classic.
Ja Rule is the biggest goofball in the universe. Also Vin Diesel and Ja Rule are definitely related. You can’t tell me otherwise. They have the same voice
Yours is by far the most accurate comment... maybe ever. Goobers, both of them!
They might be cousins.
@@CarolineBearolineI’m gay
@@Stonewall29 my man ❤️
I miss being gay with you guys over on Future's channel
Ying Yang Twins was an obvious rental even watching it back then.
Man, you just gotta love the old days of MTV.
lmao That close up on the dude sleeping on the floor had me dead
Wish they do an MTV Vintage and just play all the old 24 hour slots from the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.
Id watch
Plot twist! We can’t take any of it with us. So technically everything is rented / borrowed. Some people can just borrow better things, on better terms and for longer than others.
Great way to look at stuff. Thought it was just us… sad one will take a life for things they can’t even take to prison with them.
I still remember mid 90s to late 90s and really early 2000s watching music videos none stop late night or really early in the morning the good old days and in the 90s watching beavis n butthead roast music videos lol those were the days best days that we will never come close to getting back I’ll never forget beavis n butthead watching smells like teen spirit when it’s starting they see the janitor and butthead says “beavis’s dad” lol
Wait, wasn't Prestige the same company Bowwow took the picture from of the car and private jet, insinuating that he was traveling in them? Then someone saw him in coach at the exact same time he posted the photo?
MTVcribs with help from BlockBuster's used videos, caused me to have a massive DVD collection. Since I couldn't afford the car collections (neither could they apparently) but almost every episode had to mention their DVD collection and then pulling out Scarface.
An interesting show would be “Cribs: 10 years later” and see how people are really doing
Yoooooooo our boy has risen from the ashes ! Great video as always man
They call me Media “Phoenix” Pastimes for a reason, playboi 😎
@@MediaPastimes Amazing, I'll try to get a face tattoo of that
I understood that reference.
Man ja rule was making controversy back then too
Bros been a clown for 20 years lol
"What would I do without ya baby":........🤣🤣🤣.....they were playing that in that mansion all day
W
Redman's Crib is exactly how we were living through College ☺ We Felt Pretty Damn Special at that point!
My favorite is still the Jackass one. Turns out the Chris Pontius living in his car was real since he didn't move into a house until he had a family in 2010s.
Imagine being knocked out sleep, then you wake up and the house is empty and then a week later you look at the TV and you're on MTV with a super zoom on you sleeping 😂
In Consumerist, Consumption Heavy 1980’s, Lifestyles of the R & F was KING! Showed audiences what REAL Wealth looks like - giving an incredibly rare look at “how the other half lives.”
I loved that show.
Redman’s episode sticks out in my mind as being a kid and seeing someone actually being genuine with their lifestyle. Already a Wu fan, but this really made me respect him even more.
… goes to prove, if they stuck with the basic formula of cribs, and didn’t fake anything- chances are, it would’ve been more successful with a balance of lifestyles of fame…
There really are people with fame on both sides of the wealth spectrum- and they had the opportunity to showcase that.😊
Another great video, man! Did you ever see the Ricky Gervais Cribs parody? I think it was an extra on the Invention of lying DVD. I seem to recall it being pretty funny, but my brain could just be bullshitting me I dunno 🤷
There were so. many. parodies... I legit had to scroll past like, dozens of them while searching out clips for this. But I haven't seen that one, although Ricky Gervais does rock 🤙
thats brazy! NEVER RENTED ANYTHING. prestige imports is where i bought my orange lamb from its in miami. call brett david the owner of the dealership and ask em …. matter of fact he came out and said he sold me my lamb. NOTHING FAKE ON CRIBS. the miami crib NOT A RENTAL. it was mine.
I wasn't expecting to feel sorry for some of these celebs, but some had giant empty mansions that looked like an art museum. It didn't seem like anyone actually enjoyed life there.
15:18 Yes! I remember this episode! God that was the best cribs for me! I remember watching with my friend's fam and we just laughed out loud. "This guy is living in his truck!" 😂
I am glad that ,I am 41 and mtv and bet were cold asf joe!Such great cable tv from the 80's,90's and early 2000's...