Hip-Hop music will play a prominent part in the return of VH1’s popular video series “Pop Up Video,” which will return to air this fall.
“Pop Up Video” originally aired from 1996 until 2002. Pop Up Video had cool facts about the particular video, pop up during the duration of the videos. Anything from facts about the artist, to the things that took place while shooting the video.
Recently, VH1 announced it had ordered over 60 new episodes of the series, which will air for the first time in over nine years this September.
Producers of the show told The New York Post that Hip-Hop videos will be featured in this series, which is a radical departure from programming procedures of the network in the past.
“Back in the day, when [then-VH1 president] John Sykes bought the original series, VH1 was playing a lot of Boyz II Men and Michael Bolton and Gloria Estefan [videos] so we had to steer clear of rap and Hip-Hop,” “Pop Up Video” co-creator Woody Thompson told The New York Post. “We were hitting what was big back then — Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, Creed — and we did a ton of ’80s videos…so we’re excited to cover some of the history of rap as opposed to re-popping old Madonna and Billy Idol videos.”
According to Thompson, all of the videos featured in the new episodes of “Pop Up Video” will be from 1995 and later.
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