10 Most Expensive Music Videos Ever Made

10. '2 Legit 2 Quit' - MC Hammer

Cost: $2.5m ($4.5m with inflation)

Release: 1991

Trust MC Hammer to open up this list with the most overblown production of the lot. Somehow, despite creating a near-15 minute mini movie, Hammer's '2 Legit 2 Quit' (how impossibly 90s is that?) cost the least amount of money to put together.

The actual song doesn't get going until almost nine minutes into the video, and there are more cameos than one could care to count. Danny Glover is there, so is Queen Latifah, and even the N.W.A lads show up for some p*ss-taking fun. It's...as weird as it sounds.

James Brown takes the prize for his over-the-top performance though. All this and Hammer is still best known for baggy trousers and 'U Can't Touch This'. Nobody is blasting '2 Legit 2 Quit' in 2020, put it that way. Well, apart from you just now.

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