Don't be fooled, ALL of the well known video vixens slept around with artists and video producers. Karrine (aka Super Head), was the only one bold enough to profit financially from it. The others were too afraid of what people would think. She's not the only "super head" in that video vixen group.
Yet Superhead tried to walk everything back when her son was getting clowned in school smh. At least if you're gonna do something, live your truth and own that shit
Is this gonna talk about the negative side of being a video vixen. Because I know not everything was peachy clean. Like sexual harassment and other issues.
Y'all really tryna glamorize the objectivization and the degradation of women's bodies by saying "we changed the culture. "All this is a love letter to beautiful Black women." Yes, video vixens definitely impacted hip hop. But it also had an impact on rape culture, misogyny and women being viewed as merely sex objects for the sexual pleasure of men. The video vixen era did have an impact on the culture but it also had a destructive impact on Black women's humanity and sexuality.
MsSoaringstar18 pleaes, same females be BITCHING about not getting any attention and how black men or men in general don't want them. NONE of these women were forced to do this. They get $ and attention which most women want. So leave that feminist bullshit at the door
MsSoaringstar18 Truth that no-one wants to hear, but truth nonetheless. To balance the argument out, there's an expose series here on RUclips called "Hip hop vs America", the arguments are explosive!
Samuel Birku she was clipped by an 18 wheeler. Her Jeep flipped multiple times and she had some really bad injuries, ..including bleeding on the brain. Just Pray for her. God Bless her💓💓💓
Look for it online or even here on YT... The crash pictures are horrific and will cost her probably 6 figures to get through, hopefully social funds will make it through.
Well back then, those girls were natural, soon as those women started cashing money, other girls with no body started to change their body to be a video vixen, but for example melyssa ford is all natural.
Something about videos vixens I loved was how mysterious there was like no social media or anything. You just kinda wondered who they were and how they got they makeup to look fly lol I’d lip sync in the mirror with a fan thinking I was melyssa. I remember getting magazines to see who’s who. I think nowadays in the instagram era, the girls are cute... then they bore you with over edited Facetuned pics. Ex:india love, Aaliyah petty, etc.
Amber Rose was the epitome of the “mysterious beautiful woman”. Now she’s annoying AF and I wish we could just go back to those times were we just WONDERED what she sounded like lmao
I like how they are trying to spin women being sexualized and objectified in the music medias, only being valued for sexual quality, as something glass-ceiling breaking in the history of progression for women. There’s nothing wrong with those women feeling confident with their bodies, but that’s a very naive take on what’s actually happening. Most of those women had surgery done to enhance their sexuality for men, risking their health- not owning their beautiful body. The men get covers with their clothes on, and they are valued for their talent and ability, with looks being secondary and not commonly surgically altered. The culture wants sexy women with barely any clothes on to be on the covers, yet also want to call those same women worthless whores. Is that really progress?
There were men in the music industry portrayed as "sex symbols". Tyrese and Tyson Beckford never had their shirt on. The women portrayed as "video vixens" come and go when the peak of the vixen was in 2000-2006 until the industry changed because the music sells. Current "Instagram" models are featured on the hip hop magazine covers. They're on the cover because their youth and natural or artificial features.
Another angry feminist. I don't recall anyone calling these women worthless whores. They were respected n desired by mainly black men. If that's not to your liking you don't have to pursue that line of work.
Yes I would love to give those mags to my 10 yr old daughter and say to aspire to be half naked and shaking her body parts for money and status. Vixens helped rap and black community go down even more. It was already greatly immoral and hurting black community. The blacks who profited are of course the ones who would lead in saying it was good for hip hop and black community. Smh. King mag could've actually pushed men and women in suits doing legit businesses outside of sports and hip hop but they simply took the pimp route of using women to grab attention to bring in their money. They encouraged our black men to lust after women - not love us. Did they teach black men how to self analyze and dig deep on how to heal and love (black) women? I never saw it. We call good evil and evil good these days. And folks will have something to say against my comment to defend this vid. Anyway, praying Ford heals up really well. So glad that wreck didn't take her life.
I can’t believe they had the audacity to add that snippet in the end about representation for black girls... as if we want our daughters to aspire to take their clothes off for rappers money...
Aish right, now it ain't worth it. It's like nowadays they feed the girls free food from the food truck and maybe $200 if she lucky. No girl getting paid $5,000 or more to do videos. Plus these girls be in more underground wack rappers video more then anything just to feel like a video vixen. Like sis you know he ain't going make it.🤗
Melissa Ford, Gloria Velez, Lola Monroe, and Buffy The Body....if any one of these females were in your video, you MADE IT!.... these ladies were the go to's for all videos back in the day.
What happens when sophisticated technology are in the hands of the people. Everyone now can be a girl in a video. That is how we went from music videos to Instagram and how money for women figures came so low. There is much more of a “supply.”
Melissa Ford is just everything. Very Very educated, underrated- not given enough wins in the game. Her value for self makes her even more beautiful...
This was a great breakdown! I just realized that seeing these beautiful women of color as a teen helped boost my self esteem back then. I was so used to seeing Britney Spears and the like get so much attention. It was good to see a different kind of beauty highlighted and made the object of interest to our favorite rappers lol.
He said " these girls are stars" yea till they hit 25 yrs old or get fat, than it's out with the old & in with the newer , prettier , younger girl.. & they keep saying women of color but the girl they are most glorifying is Spanish not black.
Don't forget Black folks created Rock & Roll. Along with Doo Wop, Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Soul, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Funk, Disco, Jazz Rock and Smooth Jazz. Rap/Hip Hop is just another step in the progression of Black artistry.
Yikes. I remember the video vixen era. Yes the vixens were bigger than the women on the runway but they all still had the same shape. Even the plus size vixens were still hourglass shaped. In addition, most of the women were very light in complexion and had straight or wavy hair. I didn't identify with most of the vixens I saw because they didn't look like me and it def did nothing for my confidence 😗😕
None of these women, with the exception of Melyssa Ford, are known for anything NOW except for the videos they did decades ago. Stop glorifying this when it's done nothing short of helping to perpetuate colorism and sexism for generations to come.
Melissa Ford - " My first video was a video called Northern Touch. Pretty obscure." Hey hey hey. That's a Canadian hip hop classic. You put some respect on that video.
The part about giving black girls an alternative view of beauty is a reach. If the alternative view is centered around the male gaze and male satisfaction then that's not helping girls.
Aaron took her and f()(ked her without even introducing himself. She got his name tatted above her twang on day 3 of messin around with him. Shyt's crazy. 😂😂😂
I don't care what nobody says Melyssa Ford is the goat of Video Vixens PERIOD And outside of her videos she is very classy very well spoken and I really do like her a lot 💯😊
That Gloria girl wasn't even dancing that well in the big pimping video. She seemed to be offbeat. She is not even that beautiful but bc she has light skin she was celebrated smh!
Any video with Hype Williams directing it back then did it for me because he kept beautiful models in them, he defined that whole era, the 90's and 2000's.
@@thefactsaccordingtogabbie149 Exactly, his stuff was beautiful, the shots, lights and the beauty made it so watchable. I still look at many of his till this day.
ZD right, but old hype lost his touch tho. But it all good.....i guess he don't want to put much visual in today's artist with their wack ass music of today's😏 but his videos in the 90's and early 00's was RIGHT.
@@thefactsaccordingtogabbie149 Right, i'm sure he sees how thing's are with this crazy music today lol. Plus the attention span is so short today due to the internet.
thatlovegirl12 right, back when the only thing was most likely fake and a women would be proud to admit is fake is....their boobs now it's the boob, ass, lipo, lips and cheeks😒 straight up build a bear body chick.
❤❤💖💖💗💗💜💜😚.......me sum Melyssa Ford! she will always B an icon & I'm thankful 4her giving her knowledge 2the Younger Generation on being A video vixen,what&what not 2 accept,& how2 better yourself! She is in my prayers!!! Melyssa Ford please get well soon baby.......
Lol 4sho.......but nawL...... they 4sho get paid like rappers....wit all they gigz& appearances and performances! Believe me a video vixen, if they do tha thing right, is always on point with getting a bag!👌👌👌👏👍👜👛💄💍💍👑👑$$$$$$$$LOL
Only for Videos 1. You have no idea how much money they still have 2. Rappers don't hold onto their money either. At least not all of them. Most rappers are broke, only a few are successful enough to make a career out of it.
Only for Videos nobody said they got paid like Jay. Why would you pick the highest paid rapper of all time to use as a measuring stick? I'm a rapper, and on average they made what a lower level rapper is making for guest appearances. Don't be so defensive on a topic you know very little about.
Only for Videos first off, we're talking about videos. There's no royalties for those. Second, how do you know what they spend their money on? Third, I know from experience. That's why I spoke up, the rest of you are commenters who just dislike models for some reason.
Video vixens were around because music videos are large infomercials for fans to buy music. Someone back in the early 2000's bought a new album because the music video was visually stimulating or the R&B hook. Video vixens also add evils like the promotion of colorism. A lot of women were either lightskinned or Latina and it was a newly acquired power from rappers to have pretty women in their videos.
As a black little girl, these video vixens never made me feel beautiful. I was embarrassed by how oversexualized they were. They made me feel ashamed of my body because boys thought they could touch it without my permission. Brandy as Cinderella made me feel beautiful. Oprah and Waangari Maathai and Genevieve Nnaji made me feel beautiful.
I will keep it real. There is nothing about Melissa Ford that is special to me. She and her look are so ordinary. There are Black girls from every neighborhood that look better.
These vixens hunny had morals not like the things today! They actually represented a fantasy Lol it was a dream to be with one of them now these new breeds is just OPEN WIDE HUNNI!!
If they didn't show Amina Diop in this video, i'd swear it was Nicki Minaj commentating. I've never heard a natural TWIN VOICE before... she sounds exactly like Nicki, wow!
10:23 the video's all good but i have to disagree with this guy. never have i ever felt beautiful when i saw all these "video vixens" in music videos of my favorite songs.
There was one documentary called Video Honeys back in ‘03 with Gloria, Melissa, Ki Toy, and Sarah Pickett from Sean Paul’s I’m still in love video I can’t find it no where
Don't be fooled, ALL of the well known video vixens slept around with artists and video producers. Karrine (aka Super Head), was the only one bold enough to profit financially from it. The others were too afraid of what people would think. She's not the only "super head" in that video vixen group.
Cosmo Energy true
Exactly
Yep
Well that goes without saying!
Yet Superhead tried to walk everything back when her son was getting clowned in school smh. At least if you're gonna do something, live your truth and own that shit
Is this gonna talk about the negative side of being a video vixen. Because I know not everything was peachy clean. Like sexual harassment and other issues.
Shortytogood Ik I’m late but there is a video of that
Peachy keen? 😂
No their gonna sell it like it's to die for they're not gonna mention the abuse that comes with it smdh.
Man they had to suck many dong yuck
That thong song, Bet uncut, and Nelly’s tip drill video defined the early 2000’s
Windex sum it up perfect
Windex facts
YG had a nice throwback to the Nelly 'Tip Drill' video, called 'Pop It, Shake It' look for the 18+ video
What are you doing here? They are all over 18, begone.
So true. Those were the days.
Now the vixens are the rappers
💯...yeah cuz the feminine/masculine roles have been reverse 🥴
Y'all really tryna glamorize the objectivization and the degradation of women's bodies by saying "we changed the culture. "All this is a love letter to beautiful Black women." Yes, video vixens definitely impacted hip hop. But it also had an impact on rape culture, misogyny and women being viewed as merely sex objects for the sexual pleasure of men. The video vixen era did have an impact on the culture but it also had a destructive impact on Black women's humanity and sexuality.
MsSoaringstar18 pleaes, same females be BITCHING about not getting any attention and how black men or men in general don't want them. NONE of these women were forced to do this. They get $ and attention which most women want. So leave that feminist bullshit at the door
I totally agree, and the ones disagreeing probably wanna be a IG model dressing half naked, participating in over sexual ass challenges... Y'all stfu
Rape culture? That only exists in prison, male prison!
MsSoaringstar18 Nobody made these chicks be video vixens. They chose to be.
MsSoaringstar18 Truth that no-one wants to hear, but truth nonetheless.
To balance the argument out, there's an expose series here on RUclips called "Hip hop vs America", the arguments are explosive!
Melyssa Ford is an icon. Hands down.
Ayesha Go. Your a icon
You're in literally every comment section
Prayers up for her horrific accident. She has a brain bleed.
She's was number one back then
She looks the exact same. I fell in love with the thing song remix video because of her
"Ig baddies" ain't got nothing on them
Leslie M they got break babies and side babies
Sure ain't, I mean...they had beauty and some had brains too 🙄
They were building brands not just a song, a bag and a couple minutes of fame.
@@tishsharay7509 what's a break baby? Lol if the dude was single when that baby was conceived, than the baby should be expected
music videos back in early 2000’s was the best ones!!! very original and well thought out
Praying Melissa has a speedy recovery..🙏🆙
Still praying for Melissa 💓💓💓
Dayo Odom what happened to her?
Samuel Birku car accident
Samuel Birku she was clipped by an 18 wheeler. Her Jeep flipped multiple times and she had some really bad injuries, ..including bleeding on the brain. Just Pray for her. God Bless her💓💓💓
word? when this happen?
Look for it online or even here on YT... The crash pictures are horrific and will cost her probably 6 figures to get through, hopefully social funds will make it through.
Back when they had more natural looking bodies
Are you blind? Some one there women had work done😂
@@CupcakeMafia Like they said most women then were natural besides the occassional boob job.
@John Smith Uh these bodies do not look like the fake bbl bodies girls have now. They are slim thick but in a nice athletic way.
Black women have natural body that are curves and small waist.
“They will never get credit for making black/brown girls feel beautiful”... which black/brown girls??? Definitely not the dark skinned ones..
Raffy Allal ok and?? and where was their representation in those music videos? Teach master Don’t play dumb..
So we are going to forget about Buffy the Body.
you see the little girls they showed at that part...
Diamond Eubanks Buffy compared to the hundreds of ls video vixens
@@DiamondEubanks ONE GIRL? Stop it
Loved hearing from Melyssa. I pray she has a speedy recovery.
She fine and back at working on her radio show
I loved the vixens back in the day verses today
Precious Cargo there isn't any vixens today
⛄ AudioXVNVX ⛄ 🗣 thank you!!! Today's girls in booty videos are strippers or IG model who act and expose themselves like a stripper.
🙊Well I guess So Wen aint Nobody Real No Mo 🤷
@@thefactsaccordingtogabbie149 🙄 Umm dnt 4Get bout Doo💩-Bi😏💃😝🤷🤦
Ur name...Ima Aries& i like virgo(men) too😂👍🏽
Buffie the Body still looking good
Romel Jones she’s actually a fitness coach check her RUclips
She said natural bodies LMAOOO
cookinsoul They were more natural back then. You would normally only see the occasional boob job.
cookinsoul 😭😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🙊
Sagittarius420 Cheefie exactly, these days you almost can't tell what's real.
Bodies was real back then, but now it's a guessing game these days.
Well back then, those girls were natural, soon as those women started cashing money, other girls with no body started to change their body to be a video vixen, but for example melyssa ford is all natural.
10k a video? I came of age during the wrong time! I ain’t mad at Melyssa Ford at all. I hope she gets well soon.
L Gill 🤣
yeah 10k per video but dont for get the 10 penis sandwiches you have to eat they not telling you about
Right 😂😂😂
@Sofi like they say, sell your soul - sell your hole 😳
@@funrun9324 😂😂😂. Good one. You're right though.
So we going to act like these women did something amazing because they danced well with rappers?
I swear some of the people in this video act like video vixens cured world hunger and ended all racism.
@@jocelyncooper1738 Right! 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
They acting like they wasn't hoes LoL
For me i enjoyed seeing the different shades black women. And different sizes especially in neyo she got her own
Melyssa, Buffie, Gloria, and a few others were the 'It' girls from 99-05!!
HI ... BOO
When black girls where video vixen
Wendy Grace not only black. Latinas as well. Both beaitiful
Wendy Grace so true I miss those days now rappers videos are so different 🤦🏾♀️
Gloria Valle she said black though
Wendy Grace Yep it started with Us Black girl Afro latinas Blasian we were everywhere then they get fed up and took white and biracial
Wendy Grace
They still are..
Something about videos vixens I loved was how mysterious there was like no social media or anything. You just kinda wondered who they were and how they got they makeup to look fly lol I’d lip sync in the mirror with a fan thinking I was melyssa. I remember getting magazines to see who’s who. I think nowadays in the instagram era, the girls are cute... then they bore you with over edited Facetuned pics. Ex:india love, Aaliyah petty, etc.
Curly Girl I have the same exact thoughts. Not knowing that much about them made you like them more.
Amber Rose was the epitome of the “mysterious beautiful woman”. Now she’s annoying AF and I wish we could just go back to those times were we just WONDERED what she sounded like lmao
So true
Facts
Exactly, you knew nothing about them but how beautiful they were and you were curious! 😍👏🏽
RIP BET Uncut
marlon harrison
Man Yes!!
I remember those damn days when ASS and TITS was REAL. Now it's FAKE as FUCK!
Lol
marlon harrison Yeah"
marlon harrison I swear, that comes to mind in certain clips.
marlon harrison i miss bet uncut those where the good old days
I like how they are trying to spin women being sexualized and objectified in the music medias, only being valued for sexual quality, as something glass-ceiling breaking in the history of progression for women.
There’s nothing wrong with those women feeling confident with their bodies, but that’s a very naive take on what’s actually happening. Most of those women had surgery done to enhance their sexuality for men, risking their health- not owning their beautiful body.
The men get covers with their clothes on, and they are valued for their talent and ability, with looks being secondary and not commonly surgically altered. The culture wants sexy women with barely any clothes on to be on the covers, yet also want to call those same women worthless whores. Is that really progress?
There were men in the music industry portrayed as "sex symbols". Tyrese and Tyson Beckford never had their shirt on.
The women portrayed as "video vixens" come and go when the peak of the vixen was in 2000-2006 until the industry changed because the music sells.
Current "Instagram" models are featured on the hip hop magazine covers. They're on the cover because their youth and natural or artificial features.
lj033 exactly
Another angry feminist. I don't recall anyone calling these women worthless whores. They were respected n desired by mainly black men. If that's not to your liking you don't have to pursue that line of work.
💯💯💯💯
Right... it's a false sense of empowerment
Yes I would love to give those mags to my 10 yr old daughter and say to aspire to be half naked and shaking her body parts for money and status. Vixens helped rap and black community go down even more. It was already greatly immoral and hurting black community. The blacks who profited are of course the ones who would lead in saying it was good for hip hop and black community. Smh. King mag could've actually pushed men and women in suits doing legit businesses outside of sports and hip hop but they simply took the pimp route of using women to grab attention to bring in their money. They encouraged our black men to lust after women - not love us. Did they teach black men how to self analyze and dig deep on how to heal and love (black) women? I never saw it. We call good evil and evil good these days. And folks will have something to say against my comment to defend this vid.
Anyway, praying Ford heals up really well. So glad that wreck didn't take her life.
exactly
I can’t believe they had the audacity to add that snippet in the end about representation for black girls... as if we want our daughters to aspire to take their clothes off for rappers money...
Exactly!!! And this almost cost melissa her life.
It's entertainment relax
Wisdom In Red
So women are suppose to stop living their lives to raise your daughter?
Man Melyssa Ford was fine breh lol. Still is !
Early 2000’s video vixens were everything lol I was like 8 years old wanting to be a video girl
Aish right, now it ain't worth it. It's like nowadays they feed the girls free food from the food truck and maybe $200 if she lucky. No girl getting paid $5,000 or more to do videos. Plus these girls be in more underground wack rappers video more then anything just to feel like a video vixen. Like sis you know he ain't going make it.🤗
I didn't want to be a video girl. But they definitely were more well known and iconic for their field, back in those days.
Aish Ewww
Sad
Aish I guess that’s the same feeling young girls nowadays feel about instagram models
This was the best era of hip hop. No argument needed.
Melissa Ford, Gloria Velez, Lola Monroe, and Buffy The Body....if any one of these females were in your video, you MADE IT!.... these ladies were the go to's for all videos back in the day.
Lisa Kelly Tahiry and Esther
TAE HECKARD BRO, DON'T FORGET TAE!
Lisa Kelly leillha archieri. the prettiest ever
Buffy the Body locked up??
Tae Heckard and Melyssa Ford are the standard ✍🏿
Get well soon Melyssa 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Inspired By wats wrong wit ha
Paris Carter she was involved in an accident
Still waiting on the dark skinned chics.
Smh
Me too
Bria Myles.
You aint dark skin tho
@@youngking2128 😂😂
get over it already these videos are 20 yrs old.
It brought about a world being superficial and materialistic.. it created a mess
Brought about...history would beg to differ, "ain't nothing new under the sun."
Superficial and materialistic literally defined America since the 1980s
Stop blaming the employees for CEO product... the content of the music was being created by the rappers.. the vixens displayed their vision
I wonder if they gon get Esther Baxter for this...Another beautiful 🐐 #goat
Ebony G right, I was wondering that like them 3 was the top and main video vixen make then.
Ebony G that's the same thing i was thinking I loved her 😍😍😍
She’s normal now. Along with many other girls.
Ebony G She was my fav😍
Lola Monroe too
What happens when sophisticated technology are in the hands of the people. Everyone now can be a girl in a video. That is how we went from music videos to Instagram and how money for women figures came so low. There is much more of a “supply.”
Hmmmm... Interesting.
Melissa Ford is just everything. Very Very educated, underrated- not given enough wins in the game. Her value for self makes her even more beautiful...
This was a great breakdown! I just realized that seeing these beautiful women of color as a teen helped boost my self esteem back then. I was so used to seeing Britney Spears and the like get so much attention. It was good to see a different kind of beauty highlighted and made the object of interest to our favorite rappers lol.
Gloria was lying about her age. She was 21 turning 22 that year at the time. I just googled her birthday. Still love her tho!
Leiah Davis yes . She forgot she's 40😂
Love Gloria, shes my birthday twin!
Hell yeah she was lying about her age LOL😅
Damn she forgot her specific age inspector gadget smh
Woooowww, you really have some time on your hands. . .
This is sooo good! I used to love these women growing up
He said " these girls are stars" yea till they hit 25 yrs old or get fat, than it's out with the old & in with the newer , prettier , younger girl.. & they keep saying women of color but the girl they are most glorifying is Spanish not black.
Thats not true. The queen of video vixens was Melissa ford n Karrine steffans.
Exactly!!
I'll still listen to Big Pimpin in 2019.
They truly forgot VIDA GUERRA she was one of the baddest video girls in hip hop history 💯💯
Gloria she really dont look like the same girl.. but it is.
Prayers up for melyssa
Don't forget Black folks created Rock & Roll. Along with Doo Wop, Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Soul, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Funk, Disco, Jazz Rock and Smooth Jazz. Rap/Hip Hop is just another step in the progression of Black artistry.
Lies black folks didn't create nothing
Yikes. I remember the video vixen era. Yes the vixens were bigger than the women on the runway but they all still had the same shape. Even the plus size vixens were still hourglass shaped. In addition, most of the women were very light in complexion and had straight or wavy hair. I didn't identify with most of the vixens I saw because they didn't look like me and it def did nothing for my confidence 😗😕
None of these women, with the exception of Melyssa Ford, are known for anything NOW except for the videos they did decades ago. Stop glorifying this when it's done nothing short of helping to perpetuate colorism and sexism for generations to come.
Gloria and Melyssa was the most sorted out females in video! Beautiful women indeed and pray Melyssa get well soon!
They should explore how colorism played a role in video vixen/hip-hop culture
Melissa Ford - " My first video was a video called Northern Touch. Pretty obscure."
Hey hey hey. That's a Canadian hip hop classic. You put some respect on that video.
I think she was an early Glenn Lewis video too.
Praying for you Melissa ❤
Hi
I hate the fact that some of them be tryna act like they ain’t sleep w/ the rappers especially Melyssa Ford...superhead just told the truth 🤷🏽♀️
Back when the bodies were more natural looking.
Although video Vixen era had a lot of negativity.I will say at least it was a lot of natural beautiful black women. Cant beat natural beauty.
The part about giving black girls an alternative view of beauty is a reach. If the alternative view is centered around the male gaze and male satisfaction then that's not helping girls.
Gloria Velez, looks like a total different person. Isn’t she the one who has a baby, by Aaron Hall?
she is. God bless her, tho.
Yep...her and Aaron Hall have a son. He's like 22 now...
kim cumms
Was Gloria Velez in an Aaron Hall video?
adbc1f72 no, but she has an adult son with him
Aaron took her and f()(ked her without even introducing himself. She got his name tatted above her twang on day 3 of messin around with him. Shyt's crazy. 😂😂😂
The culture was so dope & iconic around this time 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽. Prayers for melyssa
And now they get strippers, give'em $127.00, and Destiny child cassette tape, a uber to and from the set shhhit they straight.
LMFAO!
@@lovelylayla4978 o yes
VIXEN : not just visually pleasing.
Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't care what nobody says Melyssa Ford is the goat of Video Vixens PERIOD And outside of her videos she is very classy very well spoken and I really do like her a lot 💯😊
Where tf is the full documentary?
Taejon B
Ikr
"American money. Tax free and under the table."
Well, that's an incriminating statement.
2:05 That WAS SO ME ♎
Most of these rappers didn’t want dark skin girls in there video! I commend the ones that demanded the dark skin girls get a shot, like OUTKAST
That Gloria girl wasn't even dancing that well in the big pimping video. She seemed to be offbeat. She is not even that beautiful but bc she has light skin she was celebrated smh!
Hi queen
She was always a tall butterface to me 😖
You on the other hand are beautiful 😁😉
you sound 100% like a hater
@@crencottrell7849 awww thanks love!
@@paid4life276 haha hi there 😃
I love hearing people talk about pimp c.... that’s dope she (Gloria) has a memory with and about him
Get better Melyssa!!! Praying for you
Any video with Hype Williams directing it back then did it for me because he kept beautiful models in them, he defined that whole era, the 90's and 2000's.
ZD Yes, he was the best music director back then. It's like you can tell which videos he directed.
@@thefactsaccordingtogabbie149 Exactly, his stuff was beautiful, the shots, lights and the beauty made it so watchable. I still look at many of his till this day.
ZD right, but old hype lost his touch tho. But it all good.....i guess he don't want to put much visual in today's artist with their wack ass music of today's😏 but his videos in the 90's and early 00's was RIGHT.
@@thefactsaccordingtogabbie149 Right, i'm sure he sees how thing's are with this crazy music today lol. Plus the attention span is so short today due to the internet.
Melyssa will come back better than ever. 💜💜💜💜
Melissa Ford is beautiful..she looks soo classy.. she has an amazing body
wow, sorry to hear about what happened to Melissa, my prayers go out to her. She was the only reason i ever bought KING. Hope she is OK.
No lie for years i have waited foe this .
Back when natural bodies were considered beautiful 💕
thatlovegirl12 right, back when the only thing was most likely fake and a women would be proud to admit is fake is....their boobs now it's the boob, ass, lipo, lips and cheeks😒 straight up build a bear body chick.
Melyssa FORD IS AN ICON SHE SHOULD MENTOR THESE NEW VIDEO VIXENS
❤❤💖💖💗💗💜💜😚.......me sum Melyssa Ford! she will always B an icon & I'm thankful 4her giving her knowledge 2the Younger Generation on being A video vixen,what&what not 2 accept,& how2 better yourself! She is in my prayers!!! Melyssa Ford please get well soon baby.......
Throw bacckkkkkk 🙌 B.E.T. Uncuttt!! 😂🙌💀
Paid like rappers? Doubt it
$10k per video or more is definitely rapper money. Plus club appearances and hosting gigs, modeling...they made bank.
Lol 4sho.......but nawL...... they 4sho get paid like rappers....wit all they gigz& appearances and performances! Believe me a video vixen, if they do tha thing right, is always on point with getting a bag!👌👌👌👏👍👜👛💄💍💍👑👑$$$$$$$$LOL
Only for Videos 1. You have no idea how much money they still have 2. Rappers don't hold onto their money either. At least not all of them. Most rappers are broke, only a few are successful enough to make a career out of it.
Only for Videos nobody said they got paid like Jay. Why would you pick the highest paid rapper of all time to use as a measuring stick? I'm a rapper, and on average they made what a lower level rapper is making for guest appearances. Don't be so defensive on a topic you know very little about.
Only for Videos first off, we're talking about videos. There's no royalties for those. Second, how do you know what they spend their money on? Third, I know from experience. That's why I spoke up, the rest of you are commenters who just dislike models for some reason.
Video vixens were around because music videos are large infomercials for fans to buy music. Someone back in the early 2000's bought a new album because the music video was visually stimulating or the R&B hook. Video vixens also add evils like the promotion of colorism. A lot of women were either lightskinned or Latina and it was a newly acquired power from rappers to have pretty women in their videos.
Esther Baxter was a video vixen too
Very INSIGHTFUL and INFORMATIVE video about an INTERESTING and CONFUSING time in black American culture.
I like the last comment about Kim Kardashian
Quisha F Me too! She was definitely influenced by these women
I was crazy about these vixens back in the day!🔥
Am I the only one seeing nothing but LIGHT SKIN females?? I'm just saying....
Awww I luv Melissa Ford ...❤️❤️❤️
As a black little girl, these video vixens never made me feel beautiful. I was embarrassed by how oversexualized they were. They made me feel ashamed of my body because boys thought they could touch it without my permission.
Brandy as Cinderella made me feel beautiful. Oprah and Waangari Maathai and Genevieve Nnaji made me feel beautiful.
MAN STFU
This is dope.
"They were glorifying our natural bodies" 🤣
3:49 yesssssss love Melyssa Ford.
I will keep it real. There is nothing about Melissa Ford that is special to me. She and her look are so ordinary. There are Black girls from every neighborhood that look better.
Grim Reaper CRAZY
Melyssa Ford is the Goat of this Video Vixen world. Great video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️
Hi honey
These vixens hunny had morals not like the things today! They actually represented a fantasy Lol it was a dream to be with one of them now these new breeds is just OPEN WIDE HUNNI!!
Some of them I'm sure they had to perform sexual favors and sleep with some of the guys to book jobs some not all.
If they didn't show Amina Diop in this video, i'd swear it was Nicki Minaj commentating. I've never heard a natural TWIN VOICE before... she sounds exactly like Nicki, wow!
Prayers to Melissa 🙏🏾
Dominique Speaks I hope she’s doing better🙏🏾
Director X at 5:23 with his cap 🧢 Cane and cape oh my!!
Paid like rappers...lmao
I'm so glad I came across this video, my perception has completely changed
I couldn't tell some of these chicks apart if my life depended on it. I'm glad they got paid, though. I hope they invested well, too.
Thisis a REALLY GREAT SERIES!! Keep them coming!!
Darlene Ortiz of the late 80s was the first video vixen superstar.
Melyssa Ford My Favorite VV Model In Visual History💯
😍😍😍😍😍
10:23 the video's all good but i have to disagree with this guy. never have i ever felt beautiful when i saw all these "video vixens" in music videos of my favorite songs.
There was one documentary called Video Honeys back in ‘03 with Gloria, Melissa, Ki Toy, and Sarah Pickett from Sean Paul’s I’m still in love video I can’t find it no where