Too Hot For TV

Dope music videos from 2014 that were too explicit to air.

Too Hot For TV - There were a bunch of great music videos this year as you've see in our Notarized Top 100 countdown, but some of your favorites didn't make the list. It's not because they weren't dope. Truth be told, some of the visuals either fell outside of our broadcast standards and practice or were just too risky for prime time viewership. Fortunately, these videos flourished on the Internet despite getting much airplay on networks. Check out the list of some of the hottest music videos that were deemed too hot for TV, but deserved to be recognized. -Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from left: Brad Barket/BET/Getty Images for BET, Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, Roger Kisby/Getty Images)

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Too Hot For TV - There were a bunch of great music videos this year as you've see in our Notarized Top 100 countdown, but some of your favorites didn't make the list. It's not because they weren't dope. Truth be told, some of the visuals either fell outside of our broadcast standards and practice or were just too risky for prime time viewership. Fortunately, these videos flourished on the Internet despite getting much airplay on networks. Check out the list of some of the hottest music videos that were deemed too hot for TV, but deserved to be recognized. -Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from left: Brad Barket/BET/Getty Images for BET, Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET, Roger Kisby/Getty Images)

Azealia Banks - "Chasing Time" - Azealia Banks re-channelled Madonna and gave her "Vogue" rendition with the boy-infatuated "Chasing Time." The Harlem MC's bugged out video also featured a few spaced out dance scenes but her pasties and body paint were a little too spicy and the fear of a nipple-gate debacle put her on ice. (Photo: Prospect Park Music)

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Azealia Banks - "Chasing Time" - Azealia Banks re-channelled Madonna and gave her "Vogue" rendition with the boy-infatuated "Chasing Time." The Harlem MC's bugged out video also featured a few spaced out dance scenes but her pasties and body paint were a little too spicy and the fear of a nipple-gate debacle put her on ice. (Photo: Prospect Park Music)

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Wash featuring French Montana - “Can’t Trust Thots” - Wash gave the gold diggers an anthem to dance to and get there freak on with this French Montana assist this November. Reliving the exploits of women on a bottle- and money-chasing mission, the visual for "Can't Trust Thots" lived up to its expectation and seems to set to the R&B crooner up for a monstrous 2015. Wash spoke a lot of truth, which made it a little too heavy for prime time TV.(Photo: Intersope Records)

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Wash featuring French Montana - “Can’t Trust Thots” - Wash gave the gold diggers an anthem to dance to and get there freak on with this French Montana assist this November. Reliving the exploits of women on a bottle- and money-chasing mission, the visual for "Can't Trust Thots" lived up to its expectation and seems to set to the R&B crooner up for a monstrous 2015. Wash spoke a lot of truth, which made it a little too heavy for prime time TV.(Photo: Intersope Records)

He's From Flatbush, Brooklyn, by way of Florida - Shmurda reps Flatbush, Brooklyn, all the way — he even shot his debut video in his neighborhood. He also lived in Florida as a child, until his mother relocated his family.(Photo: GS9 Entertainment, Fetty Films)

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Bobby Shmurda - "Hot Boy" - Shmurda put eyes back on NY this year as "Hot Boy" stayed in video rotation on the net and rocked clubs in 2015. The video also introduced his now famous "Shmoney Dance" which took on a Vine life of its own. The Gold-selling single produced a spawn of remixes and topped out at No. 6 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts. While Bobby Shmurda took over the streets with "Hot Boy," the gun visuals and shoot 'em up lyrics made us push the pause button over here but we still knew what time it was.(Photo: GS9 Music)

Ne-Yo featuring Juicy J -  “She Knows” - Ne-Yo has built his reputation as being a smoothed out ladies man but for his latest smash "She Knows," he turned it up a notch and created a new strip club anthem. With Juicy J riding shotgun, the video was off the chain as it featured several athletic women trying to best one another in a pole dancing competition, which made it a little too steamy to put into rotation.(Photo: Motown)

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Ne-Yo featuring Juicy J -  “She Knows” - Ne-Yo has built his reputation as being a smoothed out ladies man but for his latest smash "She Knows," he turned it up a notch and created a new strip club anthem. With Juicy J riding shotgun, the video was off the chain as it featured several athletic women trying to best one another in a pole dancing competition, which made it a little too steamy to put into rotation.(Photo: Motown)

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DJ Mustard featuring Jay 305 and Tee Cee - "Hood Tales" - DJ Mustard stayed in rotation this year as his beats ruled the charts and he even dropped his stellar debut 10 Summers in August. The project was led with a gritty production paying homage to Eazy-E's "Boyz n the Hood." "Hood Tales" featured emcees Tee Cee and Jay 305 and was a little too hard for TV. Filled with chronic, gats, 40s and more, "Hood Tales" kept to the young O.G. script, making it's TV appearance limited. But it still banged throughout trunks from Cali to NY. (Photo: Roc Nation)

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DJ Mustard featuring Jay 305 and Tee Cee - "Hood Tales" - DJ Mustard stayed in rotation this year as his beats ruled the charts and he even dropped his stellar debut 10 Summers in August. The project was led with a gritty production paying homage to Eazy-E's "Boyz n the Hood." "Hood Tales" featured emcees Tee Cee and Jay 305 and was a little too hard for TV. Filled with chronic, gats, 40s and more, "Hood Tales" kept to the young O.G. script, making it's TV appearance limited. But it still banged throughout trunks from Cali to NY. (Photo: Roc Nation)

A$AP Mob - "Hella Hoes" - A$AP Mob turned up for Harlem once again as they boasted about the number of women in their circle and their street exploits on this track. Rocky, Ferg, Nast and Twelvy stayed in iPod rotations but the heater was a little too wild for the television airwaves. They turned a house in the hood into a strip club where shorties had no problem shaking what they were blessed with. (Photo: RCA Records)

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A$AP Mob - "Hella Hoes" - A$AP Mob turned up for Harlem once again as they boasted about the number of women in their circle and their street exploits on this track. Rocky, Ferg, Nast and Twelvy stayed in iPod rotations but the heater was a little too wild for the television airwaves. They turned a house in the hood into a strip club where shorties had no problem shaking what they were blessed with. (Photo: RCA Records)

O.T. Genasis - “Touchdown” - Busta Rhymes' protege O.T. Genasis put on for Long Beach and the D-Boys across America with his weight-moving anthem "Touchdown." The Cali MC also kept his product in rotation with "CoCo" but the "Touchdown" lyrics and visuals were a little to revealing for TV.(Photo: Atlantic Records)

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O.T. Genasis - “Touchdown” - Busta Rhymes' protege O.T. Genasis put on for Long Beach and the D-Boys across America with his weight-moving anthem "Touchdown." The Cali MC also kept his product in rotation with "CoCo" but the "Touchdown" lyrics and visuals were a little to revealing for TV.(Photo: Atlantic Records)

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Tyga featuring Young Thug - "Hookah" - Tyga's "Hookah" with Young Thug has been viewed over 70 million times on YouTube as the Cali emcee scored another huge hit. But the fact that he was paying homage to smoking and the visual consisted of clouds of white smoke circulating throughout the air put it on a video rotation time out. (Photo: Cash Money Records)

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Tyga featuring Young Thug - "Hookah" - Tyga's "Hookah" with Young Thug has been viewed over 70 million times on YouTube as the Cali emcee scored another huge hit. But the fact that he was paying homage to smoking and the visual consisted of clouds of white smoke circulating throughout the air put it on a video rotation time out. (Photo: Cash Money Records)

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Young Thug - "Stoner" - Young Thug kicked off his monstrous year letting you know that Mary Jane had a strong hold on him. Birdman, Migos, and DJ Drama even slid through for the spaced out video but while marijuana may be becoming decriminalized across the U.S., the gas references and smoke-filled visuals from Thug's breakout single still had a few clearance violations that made TV cough a little.   (Photo: Cash Money Records)

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Young Thug - "Stoner" - Young Thug kicked off his monstrous year letting you know that Mary Jane had a strong hold on him. Birdman, Migos, and DJ Drama even slid through for the spaced out video but while marijuana may be becoming decriminalized across the U.S., the gas references and smoke-filled visuals from Thug's breakout single still had a few clearance violations that made TV cough a little.   (Photo: Cash Money Records)

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Fabolous - “Lituation” - Fabolous took a few scenes from the classic film King Of New York when he shot the visual for his latest street anthem "Lituation." The Young OG delivered his lyrical wordplay telling a few stories of drug deals that went astray, but the gun-busting and his chick tying up his rival's baby moms and putting her in a trunk made the plot a little too when-keeping-it-real-goes-wrong to air. (Photo: Def Jam)

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Fabolous - “Lituation” - Fabolous took a few scenes from the classic film King Of New York when he shot the visual for his latest street anthem "Lituation." The Young OG delivered his lyrical wordplay telling a few stories of drug deals that went astray, but the gun-busting and his chick tying up his rival's baby moms and putting her in a trunk made the plot a little too when-keeping-it-real-goes-wrong to air. (Photo: Def Jam)

OT Genasis - With his NSFW single "Coco," O.T. Genasis caught the attention of Busta Rhymes and signed a record deal soon after. He was also another rising star at the 2014 Hip Hop Awards and was featured in a cypher showing off his skills and hunger for the fickle rap game.  (Photo: Atlantic Records)

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O.T. Genasis - "CoCo" - O.T. Genasis had everyone screaming "I'm in love with the CoCo, I git it for the low low," but visuals of cutting up work and blowing on haze in the process kept the video in the trap and off TV. (Photo: Atlantic Records) 

ScHoolboy Q - "Hell Of A Night"  - ScHoolboy Q took us through one of his wild nights and showed what women will do once they get turned up. His psychedelic hit produced by DJ Dahi was banned from TV because of chicks popping mollies in the hypnotic visual.(Photo: Top Dawg Entertainment)

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ScHoolboy Q - "Hell Of A Night"  - ScHoolboy Q took us through one of his wild nights and showed what women will do once they get turned up. His psychedelic hit produced by DJ Dahi was banned from TV because of chicks popping mollies in the hypnotic visual.(Photo: Top Dawg Entertainment)

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OG Maco - The self-titled OG Maco EP is making waves because of lead single "U Guessed It." The song was so influential that many even feel as though Beyoncé picked up on some of his style and swag for her "7/11" music video. That's debatable, but what isn't is OG Maco's staying power as a party anthem-maker. (Photo: Quality Control Records)

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OG Maco - "U Guessed It"  - OG Maco's "U Guessed It" set the streets on fire, and its visuals of him wilding out in a hotel with his crew even gave Beyoncé inspiration for her latest video "7/11." However, the tracks shoot 'em up lyrics and the Atlanta emcee's rampant screaming of the word "B**h" kept it off the airwaves. (Photo: Quality Control)

HS87 – “Grindin’ My Whole Life” - Hit-Boy rounded up his crew as they spit about their struggles while chasing money and success. The Cali producer/MC got grimmey for the visual as he revisited the hood with a few homies who flexed that pistol to demonstrate their previous hustles, which caused it to be blocked. It was still a win for The Plug and had crowds going ape at his live performances. (Photo: Interscope Records)

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HS87 – “Grindin’ My Whole Life” - Hit-Boy rounded up his crew as they spit about their struggles while chasing money and success. The Cali producer/MC got grimmey for the visual as he revisited the hood with a few homies who flexed that pistol to demonstrate their previous hustles, which caused it to be blocked. It was still a win for The Plug and had crowds going ape at his live performances. (Photo: Interscope Records)

Vince Staples - "Blue Suede" - Vince had heads rocking with "Blue Suede" as he spit about life growing up in Cali and wanting to live and make it out the hood. He set it off with the visual which seemed to mock the old school West Coast video standards of having 40s of malt liquor in abundance and chronic smoke everywhere. He may have dug too deep because the empty Old English bottles proved a little too much for the tube.  (Photo: Def Jam)

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Vince Staples - "Blue Suede" - Vince had heads rocking with "Blue Suede" as he spit about life growing up in Cali and wanting to live and make it out the hood. He set it off with the visual which seemed to mock the old school West Coast video standards of having 40s of malt liquor in abundance and chronic smoke everywhere. He may have dug too deep because the empty Old English bottles proved a little too much for the tube.  (Photo: Def Jam)

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