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The new Clipse video was shot in front of Obama Fried Chicken, but the MTV version wipes out the sign.
YouTube version
MTV version
Reasons for this:
1. Obama Fried Chicken, a classy joint, did not want to be associated with Clipse.
2. Clipse, a classy joint, did not want to be associated with Obama Fried Chicken.
3. The song is about hanging outside a Popeyes, not Obama Fried Chicken.
4. Clipse did not want to propagate this racist stereotype of black Americans by showing the Obama Fried Chicken sign in their video.
5. But it is okay to sing about this stereotype; blind people would still know about it because they would hear the lyrics, but it is also impossible for blind people to be racist, or at least accurately racist.
6. Cam'ron's decision
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