The music video has been around a long time, but it wasn't until Michael Jackson released the 14 minute mini-movie for his masterpiece Thriller that the idea really took hold as a viable art form. Music vids only became more popular after that, and it's hard to find a hit song from that era that doesn't have one.
Hip hop has its own style of music video, usually accentuated by stacks of cash, beautiful women and nice cars. Of course, sometimes the artists choose to portray the grittier side of life with depictions of poverty, hardship and gang violence.
The 100 hip-hop videos in this list are very different, but they all have one thing in common - they're all great.
