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We’ve come up with a new feature here on The Bocker, fittingly called “Gully Video”, where he find you the grimiest, dirtiest, ghettoest, cheapest, most over the top rap videos ever produced and give them the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. Hip Hop videos are notorious for being either ridiculously over budget, where rappers rent cars, houses, chains and hoes to look big time, or terribly under funded, think a camcorder, a grimy neighborhood and some homeboys. This characteristic leaves them open for ridicule and unintentionally humorous. This is where we at The Bocker step in. Always itching to mock someone or something, this is the perfect forum to display our jokes, or lack there of. Our first subject is Brooklyn rapper Illa Ghee with his video for “Let ‘Em Know”. Notice the apostrophe before the “Em”, that means he’s not only hard but he’s careful with punctuation.  Commentary after the jump.

Wallace: Right off the bat you’ll notice that Illa Ghee is the classic example of fat man who took too much protein to get big and ended up with a gut and monstrous biceps.  The way he rubs his hands together at the beginning of the video alerts viewers to the fact that he’s hard, and that he’s possibly itching for action.  Or he just finished using some anti-bacterial hand cleaner and is distributing over his hands to disinfect them.  It’s hard to tell if this video was shot on using a camera phone or a camcorder, but the classic widescreen effect makes me lean towards the latter.

Tony: “Make a n*** mad and he will malfunction”  Illa brings the hardest lyrics and nevermind his boys in the back.  I’ve never seen guys trying to look so hard in my life.  I liked this one scene they cut from around 2:10 where this guy turns his head to the camera while wearing just one ipod earphone , as if thats very tough look.   Then you have  slow motion smoker at 0:48 displaying his ability to ominously exhale smoke.  Illa Ghee might have the roughest group of guys in the rap game today.

Wallace: What do you expect out of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Sumner Houses Anthony? A part of me wonders if Mr. Ghee even knows these guys though.  I mean it’s quite possible he just found these guys hanging out on the benches in front of their building and starting rapping in front of them.  I mean no way these guys could be acting this hard.

Tony: What is the significance behind the ‘h’ in Ghee?

Wallace: I’m thinking that Illa was going for the hard ‘G’ sound and not the ‘gah’ soft ‘G’ sound.  He knew if he spelled it Gee people might screw up his name.  Plus the ‘h’ stand for hard.

Tony: I was not ready for what happens at 3:30.  The song just drops out and then Green Hoodie steps to the mic and just blows up.  Repping the GMC Truck.  By the way, must you reference The Wire in any hood rap track?  I don’t mind it, but I feel like I have heard too many guys rhyming Marlo to Partlow.

Wallace: Anthony, you of all people should know that no street reference is complete without throwing The Wire in there.  If you are referencing the hood, or black people in today’s society, or drugs, or police, or the problems in the media, you have to reference The Wire.  Everyone knows that The Wire was the perfect depiction of the decay of our cities and was the most realistic portrayal of life on the streets.  It’s just common knowledge, son.

Tony: I’m just glad that Illa Ghee is keeping it gangsta while still staying up with the times and distributing his videos over the web.

Well, we hope you enjoyed our first installment of Gully Video.  Check back soon for more break downs of your favorite crap rap music videos.  If you have any suggestions for the next Gully Video send them to thebocker@gmail.com.