They Shootin'! The Biggest Arsenals in Rap Videos

Guns used to be a regular occurance in hip-hop videos, but could they be experiencing a renaissance? Call it Second Amendment rap.

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A bandolier? Not even Gucci Mane would try that one.

So the other day Tony Yayo dropped the video for a new track called "Bullet Whistle," and our immediate reaction was: yaaaaawn "sweet fancy Brady Bill, we hope your P.O. doesn't see this." Everyone's favorite predicate felon packs more guns than a little bit, and at one point JUGGLES A MOTHERFUCKIN' GRENADE. That's not gangsta, that's Modern Warfare 2.

But it did get us thinking about how rare it was to see firepower in a video nowadays; once upon a time, before shiny suits and iTunes, rappers would flash enough jammies to make the ATF blush. So we went back and compiled 10 of our favorite artillery displays—and trust, all of these give you more bang for the buck-buck.

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• ATL's newest trapstar Pill dropped the video for his dopeboy anthem last summer. His homie holding an assault rifle while guarding isn't even the gulliest part—that honor goes to either him literally cooking crack on the stove or the under-aged youngun' being used as the video girl. That shit had our eyeballs goin' ham. Ham!

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