How "Blank Check" Embodies Every Hip-Hop Cliché of the Last 20 Years

Preston Waters and A$AP Ferg have more in common than you think.

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Blank Check is more hip-hop than you remember. Let's put Disney's classic kids movie, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary today, into perspective: Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall) is a kid who happens upon a blank check and turns himself into a millionaire. With that million bucks, he buys himself a mansion, a sweet ride, and a mahogany-covered office, complete with a leather throne. When he's not throwing lavish parties at his crib, Preston is throwing down stacks at the mall, getting pampered at fancy European luxury retailers, and flirting with beautiful women at places straight out of a romance novel (in his case, an epic fountain). 

If you still can't picture it, allow us to jog your memory with this supercut comparing all the hip-hop scenes in Blank Check to your favorite rap videos. And if the film's street pedigree is still under question, consider this: Blank Check director Rupert Wainwright previously directed N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton" video. Also, the video for MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." OK, one out of two isn't bad.

Music video key:
Jay Z - "Excuse Me, Miss" 
Notorious B.I.G. - "Warning"
Trick Daddy - "I'm a Thug"
Cam'ron - "Oh Boy"
Kris Kross - "Jump"   
Fabolous f/ The-Dream - "Throw It in the Bag" 
Nas - "If I Ruled the World"
Drake - "Started From the Bottom"  
Nicki Minaj f/ Drake - "Moment 4 Life" 
Jay Z - "Roc Boys"  
Nicki Minaj - "Right by My Side"  
Rick Ross - "Diced Pineapples" 
LL Cool J - "Paradise"  
Beanie Sigel - "Feel It in the Air"  
Eminem - "Mockingbird" 
Jay Z - "Roc Boys"  
Notorious B.I.G. - "Hypnotize" 
A$AP Ferg - "Shabba" 

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