Puff Daddy Victory (feat. The Notorious Busta Rhymes) (1998)
Directed by Marcus Nispel on March 31, 1998. The almost eightminutelong video featured cameos from Dennis Hopper as a New World Order dictator ( President Victor Castiglione ) and Danny DeVito as a live action reporter. Tamara Beckwith was also in the video. Hopper and Devito reportedly appeared in the video pro bono as a favor to Combs. Sean Combs character (known as Contestant, 5 or codename PD ) runs through the dark streets of the year 3002 AD, chased by armed gestapoesque forces of Chase TV. At one point, Contestant, 5 is cornered on a rooftop, where he decides to leap off instead of submitting to the armed troops. Footage from Biggie s One More Chance video was used in ghost images, representing a flashback for Sean Comb s character. Busta Rhymes, dressed in black feathers, raps atop a statue representing Victoria, the goddess of victory. The Victoria statue overlooks the chase scenes. Biggie appear in the video only through archive footage due to his death a year earlier.
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