Making Rap Videos For Dummies (i.e. Rappers)
1. Rent every possible piece of clothing from your local pro sports teams
2. Rent gaudy, over-tricked H2's, Mercedes, Escalades, and Bentleys
3. Rent gaudy costume jewelry, fake gold teeth, etc.
4. Rent gaudy, whorishly dressed chicks from last popular rap video (may help to make one or two topless so that American censors can blur out the naughty bits and make you seem risque)
5. Rent empty bottles of expensive cognacs and champagnes and fill with your choice of cheap hooch and/or malt liquor.
6. Rent gels to accent certain colors and fish-eye lenses for close-ups.
Once you have the gear try to hire someone to film repeated close-ups of your blinged out face and neck, and slo-mo dancing scenes with nameless borderline retarded members of your "posse" or "entourage", and whores pretending to drink expensive cognac or champagne. Blend scenes intermittently and integrate slo-mo scenes of yourself in expensive rented sportswear or vehicles making a grand entrance. It also helps to try to look as tough or bad as possible.
This is the recipe for a perfect rap video hit.
**Note: it may help if you fabricate either a "feud" or violent past with a more popular rapper. Also may help if you fake prior gang activity or gunshot wounds.