The History and Fakery of MTV CRIBS | Looking Back

In today's episode of Looking Back, we'll be discussing MTV Cribs. The long running series that gives viewers a firsthand look into the homes of various celebrities.
Cribs debuted its first episode on September 20th, 2000. The show aired during MTV's late-night block called the 10 spot. Created by Nina L. Diaz, Cribs showcased the homes of various celebrities, from actors, to musicians, to athletes. Homes ranged from the smallest of apartments to the biggest mansions imaginable. Cribs was an immediate success. The show had large scale specials dedicated to one celebrity or group, such as the Mariah Carey episode, 50 cent mansion tour, b2k edition, jackass edition, also spawning several spin-offs (Teen Cribs, CMT Cribs, Extreme Cribs). Several examples of fakery have surfaced, involving 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Jojo, Robbie Williams, 3LW, and Bow Wow (Lil Bow Wow).
Video Sources:
MTV 2002 VHS Recording - UserDDA ( • MTV 2002 VHS Recording... )
MTV Commercials July 2000 - FNP Films ( • MTV Commercials - July... )
MTV Commercials - December 31, 1999 / January 1, 2000 - FNP Films ( • MTV Commercials - Dece... )
Real World New Orleans Season 9 Intro - HowHow Vibing ( • Real World New Orleans... )
MTV2 The Future Of Music Television Is Now Promo - Music Television Promo Lover Jr. ( • MTV2 The Future Of Mus... )
MTV 10 Spot Real World X & Becoming Promo 2001 Jessica Simpson Analog Indulgence ( • MTV 10 Spot Real World... )
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (February 6, 1994) - pannoni14 ( • Lifestyles of the Rich... )
All other clips are property of their respective owners.
Music (in order)
Countach - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Warm Nights - Lakey Inspired
In My Dreams - Lakey Inspired
Vapor Influence - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Chocolate - LuKremBo
Rainy Day - LuKremBo
Onion - LuKremBo
Daily - LuKremBo
Overjoyed - Lakey Inspired
The Process - Lakey Inspired
Travel - LuKremBo
Empty - LuKremBo
Ambient - Mixkit
Chapters:
Intro - 0:00
MTV in the Early 2000s - 0:43
MTV Cribs Origins / Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - 1:45
First Episode of MTV CRIBS / The Osbournes - 2:53
CRIBS Tropes: Where the Magic Happens - 4:11
CRIBS Tropes: Fridge Tours and Cristal Bottles - 4:54
CRIBS Tropes: Vehicle Collections - 5:39
Ratings Success, Special Episodes, and Spin-offs - 6:05
Parodies of MTV Cribs - 6:57
Fakery Uncovered - 7:23
Ja Rule's Rented Mansion - 7:37
JoJo's Borrowed Beach House - 9:31
Robbie Williams' Rented Castle - 9:52
3LW's Rented Mansion - 10:07
Bow Wow's Rented Cars - 10:38
50 Cent's Borrowed Ferraris - 11:59
MTV Pressured Redman into Renting a Mansion / Favorite Eps - 13:33
The Future of CRIBS - 16:09
Outro - 17:04
#MTVCribs #MTV #Cribs

[@MediaPastimes]

Forgotten MTV Shows from the 2000s (Snoop Dogg's Comedy Series and More): kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJjcY5-cedysfKc

[@mikejones1298]

That Vin diesel joke was so bad it made me laugh. Vin diesel isn't even that big.

[@MediaPastimes]

@@mikejones1298 @vindiesel this guy has something to say to u

[@Madenewhope]

WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE BABY LOTIONS FOR FOR💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@FashoFashaun]

Red man episode is a classic. Rubbing two wires together to get the door bell had me rofling

[@MediaPastimes]

He still lives there, too. I know he did an updated tour of it at some point but I couldn’t find it 🤔

[@Madkalibyr]

I love that one so much, I remember watching that and my mom chiming in about how much she liked his attitude :p

[@yukimasaheppe1079]

Didn’t he have cousin /friend sleeping on the couch and large media collection😂

[@jackatkinson3682]

​@@yukimasaheppe1079 Yep, it was his cousin. 😅 #ShitExhibit

[@Rai_S82]

​@Yukimasa Heppe yeah, or the floor or something 😂

[@MK-we9sw]

Redman's cribs is the essence of MTV. That's what it was supposed to be but it wanted to be so Hollywood.

[@ryancameron1909]

His was the best.

[@ricklopez778]

That was the best episode ever and he was💯 " De La Casa"

[@TheBasher-_-]

Yes but his episode was boring. I wanted to see houses nicer than mines not the Same ones or ngl worse.

[@MK-we9sw]

@@TheBasher-_- damn. You live in a big house too?

[@salvadorromero9712]

A severely underrated one is Ying Yang Twins, who rented a house that looked absolutely nothing like anything two young rappers would live in and hilariously clowned on the pretense the entire time.

[@XGlite015]

Redman is an honest dude. What a legend.

[@DavidBrocekArt]

It sounds weird to us now, since we take for granted that we are able to basically "chat" with celebrieties on Twitter and stuff. But back in the day, we knew celebrities only from movies and music videos. So watching someone famous going around their own personal kitchen like "Yo, this is where I eat my cereals" just felt unreal and cool af.

[@mikeyo1990]

That’s a solid point!!!!!

[@joshleyva2249]

The Redman episode was hands down the best one.

[@sandhanitizer15]

Ryan Nyquist's joke about the crystal light was actually hilarious

[@fergit0923ify]

Yeah it was totes magotes LOL. I LOL’d like sooooo haaarrddd

[@pieterpossenier4191]

his complete episode was hilarious

[@christopherwebb3517]

I remember listening to Howard Stern talking about Cribs years ago when it was still on the air, and he pointed out how anyone who knows anything about how the recording industry works knows that most artists start out owing their labels so much money that it takes at least three or four hit songs before they really start making real money for themselves. So there's no way these artists with only one hit song to their names could possibly afford massive mansions and fleets of super cars.

[@bobo42024]

Depends were you live. Look at 50 cents 52 room mansion. It only cost $4,000,000. You cant even get a house for less than $1,000,000 where I live.

[@jesusshuttlesworth8972]

​@@bobo42024 Big 🧢 But hey I guess you can be anyone you want on the internet.

[@lvl99kuroikami38]

@@jesusshuttlesworth8972 nah thats jus how it is in the city

[@CandanceOnline]

True because most first time artists don’t get paid until a few albums & most people them had bad contracts in which they weren’t able to buy anything.

[@Alvan81]

​ @bobo42024 You gotta sell millions of copies to earn that 4M. If you dont, you lose it all! That's the bigger point here.

[@TheCheat420]

"The first three houses on Cribs are Moby, Ozzy Osbourne, and Jewel." Say a more 2000 sentence. I DARE you.

[@MediaPastimes]

And the wild thing is, all three of those people are still extremely relevant.

[@NeverMetTheGuy]

I like it here. Good times.

[@WookieWoman]

Watching that clip of Moby made me literally say out loud, " yeah that's definitely a real musician's home." 😂 A lot of them live for the fame but some live for the music.

[@firefighter343]

"GIT-R-DONE" There. Now that's about us " 2000s" as it gets.

[@SuperImmunologist]

I like no doubt and Korn

[@truthteller4442]

14:17 “His bedroom had a Sega Dreamcast and a bottle of baby lotion set up on the nightstand….” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂Dead.

[@thugzman7890]

Redman had the greatest episode ever! The realist guy in the game.

[@TTCandlevibe]

They did the edits to like he had a mansion 😂

[@micahmanley613]

💯

[@bikespj22]

I feel like record labels probably had some part in this. They didn't want people to see how much they were ripping off these musicians. It probably helped trick new people into contracts and keep the cycle going.

[@Bacon__SteezBurger]

I’ll never forget Missy Elliot’s insane legit car bed 😂

[@pie_g]

Ferrari Testarossa!

[@owadasaoluwafemi8819]

Also her big signature at the entrance of her crib inside

[@davebeat]

Redman's episode was great. The fake ones were so obvious you'd see like one artist that had only had one hit at the time or weren't even known internationally and they had these huge mansions and you were just like nah I don't belive it.

[@ps-yk8su]

Silk the Shocker

[@kamenanew9867]

​@@ps-yk8su master p and crew was legit wealthy tho, snoop said all you saw in they music videos and home made movies and shit was all legit they own cars and money and all that.

[@Art7220]

Was Aaron Carter's episode fake too?

[@Dill_doh]

Redman the goat

[@gdirty7380]

@@kamenanew9867 yea people forget that his net worth towards the end of the 90s was over 600 million. theres a tosh.o segment where he does a " guess this celebrity's net worth ", and its a picture of master p. people were guessing on the low end and he showed the actual net worth and it was well over 600 million. ive seen hella people recently comment how master p is actually, what people think jay z is. ive been a soldier since 97 lmao when i was 10. seen every movie and heard every album up to about 2001.and yea like you said, just ask snoop. hes so supportive of p. he knows those miller boys are the truth. free c murder!!

[@dth32379]

Fun fact, I was on set for the filming of the episode with Mario(R&B Singer from Baltimore….not Sisquo lol). His “Crib” was a model unit at Silo Point here in Baltimore. So it wasn’t even a lived in or rented unit. None of the stuff in there was his either. Including the iPhone used to control the A/V system. There was also a rental Maserati. I know the 5 series BMW was his because I ran into him at a bar a few months later.

[@teebee3631]

I'll never forget when Kelly Rowland was giving her tour, but couldn't remember any facts about the place. Kept stumbling to explaon what everything was, that was when I realized it was fake. 😂

[@David..]

Love Redman’s episode. Could see him being the type of guy who drives a 1994 Acura Vigor with 400,000 miles on it and faded paint with 9 figures in the bank.

[@vanwade5870]

You mean driving a broke vigor.

[@wendy_lynn]

I always use to wonder how artists I’ve never even heard of had such lavish homes. Makes so much sense now.

[@billyjansen7690]

Or just Google it

[@ermaksplug94]

Just because you haven’t heard of them don’t mean shit

[@mkhanman12345]

Who are you referring to? They were all pretty famous, lol

[@whitedevil2]

fake it till you make it. mostly popular in the rap industry. it's practically a tradition for newcomers showing off jewelry and cars and a lifestyle they can't afford.

[@miata350]

A lot of the wealth you see from rappers is fake. They rent jewelry, they rent cars for music videos, they use stacks of movie prop cash for their stupid photos.

[@snoopyrogain541]

I remember when MTV first aired and for about a year and half there wasn't any commercials.

[@MediaPastimes]

The years prior to "The Real World" definitely looked to be the golden age of MTV, where-as the 2000s era that I grew up with was the bronze age. And the current age is just the uncontrollable vomit era.

[@lulzyboy]

@@MediaPastimes I guess you could say their current age is, ridiclous ;)

[@truthiscensored]

I remember when the black music artist MTV played was Michael Jackson

[@me3333]

@@MediaPastimes I remember watching the premier of MTV and from that day all the way up to "The Real World" we legit had a TV that played only MTV every day all day. Everybody at school knew all the new videos that came out and we all went home and when we weren't out riding bikes or doing something otherwise outside we would hang out at one of our houses with MTV at least in the background. That started to change around the time "The Real World" came out but by then I was older and had a kid and a job so life was already different but I still miss those days

[@BeachLookingGuy]

rappers are the epitome of "fake it till you make it" and even when they've made it they will still fake it....

[@MediaPastimes]

There are some rappers who go against the grain and don't feel the need to flaunt their wealth, but it's definitely not the majority. It sucks that the music can't just speak for itself.

[@byron739]

Criminally underrated comment!

[@misterhappy5462]

i thought every celebrity in the history of entertainment fakes it til they make it. rappers are just the latest example

[@kendramiddletonwilliams]

Red man’s episode was the best - especially looking back. It was honest and humble, and in this day and age of fact checking and being able to check someone’s story? Those were the best.

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

Fun fact: mtv to this day still does the same thing, except now it's on their TV show "catfish." Majority of the people's "houses" they go to are actually rented out air BnB's. There's been multiple guests who have done AMA's on reddit that have admitted mtv rented a local air bnb and passed it off on the episode as belonging to the person on the episode. Presumably it's partially a safety thing as to not give away where the people actually live, and also they can rent a big enough house to fit the film crew inside comfortably plus the people on the show and the hosts

[@MediaPastimes]

They did the same thing with Pimp My Ride. I get the safety concerns, but for a show where the person is giving an "intimate tour" of their home... all I ask is that they show their actual home.

[@SEEYAIAYE]

According to some of the people who were on Pimp My Ride, if their house didn't look good for TV the producers just moved them into a nice rented house for Xzibit to roll up on.

[@MediaPastimes]

@@SEEYAIAYE Nah, every house was rented. I made an entire video about PMR and consulted a former contestant who said that every home shown on PMR was in close proximity to West Coast Customs or GAS, because Xzibit legitimately drove the contestant vehicles to the shops.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

for JoJo it made sense, she was still a young teen when it aired so she at least deserved to not have stalkers after her

[@billyjansen7690]

That's what u get for watching catfish like what

[@jeffdaniel23]

They can try and revive it and make it what it was before, but Architectural Digest has taken the crown of this kinda content. They've already got videos with modern celebrities and they have more time to go in depth on the houses

[@MediaPastimes]

Not only that, but MTV doesn't have nearly as much appeal in the youth and college markets. Only millennials, Gen X, and boomers still torture themselves with marathons of Ridiculousness and Catfish 😅

[@NoMercyRecords1]

I get a little emotional everytime I find videos of throw back shows from MTV. I miss the channel when it was classic.

[@NeverMetTheGuy]

TLC used to be The Learning Channel. Now, I'm pretty sure it stands for Terrible Life Choices.

[@MediaPastimes]

TLC will help you learn about the 600lb sisters, which is more valuable than anything else.

[@fitzgerald434]

Redman was the only one that kept it real, and people could relate to it plus it was entertaining. Seeing one of his friends sleeping on the floor was hilarious

[@toploc7520]

When I was a kid I thought all of this was %100 real , it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I thought maybe some of it was staged

[@MediaPastimes]

There were more legitimate segments than just Redman, but a good 80-90% of the homes toured on CRIBS displayed something that was planted for the show. Problem is, a lot of those old episodes are long gone due to copyright issues. So many songs were used in the background of these episodes, and MTV doesn’t want to pay royalties to those artists.

[@napalm_lipbalm86]

​@@mattalan6618 and Jojo's. She literally sat on a Sit and Spin in a house she grew up in looked like mine I grew up in.

[@billyjansen7690]

Ok so? Then

[@kirdot2011]

I thought this and pimp my ride was 100%real turns out it isnt

[@JoshuaPagan]

Are we gonna pretend that this isn’t the problem with a lot of the influencer home tours? 😂

[@Alphahydro]

It comes as no surprise whatsoever that Redman is down to earth and feels better keeping it real.

[@G00gLe_was_my_idea989]

I agree the Redman episode was hands down the best one ever. I remember me and my brother watching it and wondering if it was legit or if he was just being funny (because that's how he is) Turned out to be legit though and I respect tf out of him for keeping it 100% in not posing and faking a lifestyle that he wasn't really living (like so many of them do) It tokes a REAL mf to keep it REAL and not pitch more fakeness and ilusion to the world like it's all luxury and glitz and glamour

[@G00gLe_was_my_idea989]

It's funny when you really think about it, these mfs are actually selling them more slavery in pretending they're living the high life like "Yeahhhh look at how good I'm doing don't you want to come live like this?" When in actuality they aren't even living like that and know the slaves they've become thrmselves

[@RBeeMedia]

I didn't speak English when I was younger, so I learned about MTV Cribs later on, but my favourite was most definitely YingYang Twins' episode, it was so clearly not their house, it was like some soccer mom's suburban house, it was hilarious

[@ShinRyojin]

The Ozzy episode is interesting to look back on before the whole Osbournemania started as everyone looked so different: Kelly was a blonde teenybopper, Sharon was a typical relaxed and low key mom, and Ozzy was intelligible. Lol

[@ProG3rmanator]

I remember watching red man’s episode as a kid and being too tears. Watching his segment in the vid brought those same feeling back. His episode in my opinion aged the best. I been going back and revisiting 2000s reality TV like True life and Pimp my ride. Honestly red man’s mtv crib tour and ODB’s limo segment of him and his children getting food stamps is probably some of the best early IRL moments on TV. Love the vid, very well done and nostalgic af haha

[@bananaempijama]

Even as a kid, i thought "I would never show my house for the world to see, even worse if i was a celebrity"

[@traestyles25]

Redman had the best episode by far lol It was funny as hell.

[@chorseundgrd]

I miss the early 00s so much. Just a simpler time. MTV was must watch television at those times. I remember watching The Real World and thinking "Wow that's what being an adult is like". My favorite part of Cribs were the cars. If you read DuPont Registry back in those days, it was like watching that magazine on a CRT TV Screen. I vaguely remember a Cash Money episode with Birdman and Lil Wayne that I loved. Trick Daddy had one where I think his girlfriend or something was frying chicken in the kitchen lol

[@JayTeeAyy]

The show really motivated me to try to get enough money to have mansions like these celebs… I guess it didn’t motivate me enough 😭

[@nerdstudent8852]

You can still motivated to rented some mansion though 😁

[@alvinellie]

Hahaha! 😂 Didn't We All. Fun ride though

[@DOC_951]

How is your life now compared to these celebs? lol

[@tippersimracing6070]

When I was Teen watching these in the 2000's, I thought how could these celebs spend all their wealth in just Ludacris ways, well now seeing it from a adult's eye most were no way near as wealthy as they make out. But, quite honestly I still enjoy these shows because of all these things I listed. Great vid!

[@KingLife1991]

I can’t believe they still are making them 😂 I thought this was over a long time ago

[@altrogeruvah]

Man, looking at MTV Cribs in my 30s, '00s celebrity affluence feels empty and sterile. It's even worse now obviously, but I see now where it all started.

[@truthteller4442]

W comment here. Got one guy living in a house with 25 bedrooms. Like, WTF you gonna do with all those rooms? It’s all about the machismo and putting on “the show” for everyone. A lot of these guys learned the hard way, however, because a lot of them went bankrupt.

[@hank1556]

Underrated comment

[@franwex]

I always thought those mansions looked fake. Like how someone would stage a house to be sold-not like someone actually living in it. I figured that they would clean up before MTV cameras got there. The Marylin Manson episode made me suspect that it was a rental home due to how ordinary it looked for Marylin Manson-and the cheap Halloween Store spooky stuff there was.

[@ArtHoward]

The performer's personal style would be tacky as hell, yet their house looked like an art museum. Plus, they only had three hit songs at best, yet they lived like Bill gates.

[@johnlarson1249]

This video was great. Admittedly, I haven't seen an episode of 'Cribs' in at least 16-17 years. Even then, I knew that some of the celebrity homes/cars, etc. had to be a set-up. Anyway, thanks for highlighting some of the more egregious segments. I got a HUGE laugh out of both Sum41's and Red Man's cribs...downright hilarious (the random cousin sleeping on the floor was gold).

[@MyBAR89]

Ying Yang Twins will forever be my favorite episode. "First room you're gonna SEE is the SEA ROOM! This didn't take no wo-man. It took us men!" So many great quotes.

[@sandhanitizer15]

Redman's episode when he shows the tiny ass closet... "I got a walk in closet...I step in, I step out. You walk in, you walk out." Lmao

[@bostonrailfan2427]

he’s not wrong…he showed that it’s a bad name for a closet!

[@jaysmith6013]

I can remember being a kid watching Cribs regularly believing it 100% hook line and sinker

[@schneir5]

5:41 Damn, Ryan Dunne with his cars. If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye then I don't know what would. Rest in peace.

[@jayrod3302]

Redman was the only one with the real house 💯

[@Mande1985]

Birdman did own his mansion. Sadly it's abandoned and taken over by mother nature. ALSO, in the 80s when MTV was created, they played nothing but music. I miss those times. 😭

[@ps-yk8su]

You gotta be in your 40s. A little too old to be watching MTV

[@onetwothree9]

Unfortunately, being a music only channel wasn't profitable, so they either had to change the programming or eventually go bankrupt.

[@truthiscensored]

The one on the show was rented. He actually went into foreclosure on his real house that was much smaller than the Cribs rented house he showed

[@ibrahimkhalif83]

I knew that house that 3LW used wasn’t theirs because they didn’t know where shit was😂😂😂😂

[@MsDisneylandlover]

And on top of that they didn't even get alone

[@WrightByrd]

This video was literally just recommended to me and I am so happy! The nostalgia from my teen years is bursting 😂 thank you for making this video 😊

[@17TheSaurus]

Wow Redmans crib. That N64 "Ready to Rumble 2" case really brought me back.

[@MediaPastimes]

Those games ruled 🥊

[@1000djsouthside]

I loved this show as a little kid. It expanded my mind as an aspiring artist. Love how you flip the words around in your outro

[@Sonicfalcon16]

Man ja rule was making controversy back then too

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Bros been a clown for 20 years lol

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

"What would I do without ya baby":........🤣🤣🤣.....they were playing that in that mansion all day

[@J4sse]

W

[@didierrobert13004]

Mariah Carey’s episode is very real though. It’s really her NYC appartement that she bought when she left her first husband in the late 90´s.

[@MediaPastimes]

I didn't diss Mariah, her episode was legendary.

[@didierrobert13004]

@@MediaPastimes I knooowwww you didn’t ! I was just saying, just a little info ! You did an amazing job! For real

[@roseroselyne9045]

Eminem was in there with her lol

[@brucebeamon5460]

This the only other episode I remember besides REDMAN’S

[@didierrobert13004]

@@roseroselyne9045 you meant M&MS ? 😌

[@miketaz5548]

Damn the Redman episode makes me feel old I was 21 when that episode dropped. Lol I was high as hell watching it 😂😂😂😂😂

[@aspyn.j_]

i mean, i always thought it was weird for a well known celeb to invite a film crew into their actual private residence. maybe they brought a couple things they owned to show off but i always kept wondering, "wow, they're not worried about stalkers?"

[@techbit7607]

I was a gullible kid I thought it was all real lol, Lil Wayne recently said he wants to fire his accountant because his net worth is nowhere close to what Forbes claim it is, Giselle Buchden said the same thing.

[@spookypen]

Ying Yang Twins was an obvious rental even watching it back then.

[@CashTheRealest]

I really enjoyed this channel, this was my era. Love it

[@AdventureIndiana]

An interesting show would be “Cribs: 10 years later” and see how people are really doing

[@Sci-Fi_Fan296]

This was well done. Brought back memories for sure. Keep up the good work!

[@MediaPastimes]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@ShannonsBibleStudy]

It seemed to me that some of those houses were too expensive for some of the celebrities on "Cribs". People with one hit song or a recurring role on a sit com had mansions with stables sitting on huge plots of land and a garage with five luxury cars. It was questionable even then so this makes a lot of sense.

[@WookieWoman]

Yeah, those were more like Record Label Executive level homes. 😂

[@bankylaw3745]

Don't forget every rapper on cribs had the line "gotta have the Scarface" when showing off the DVDs or else they weren't gangsta

[@pinkflamingo5972]

I’m glad you covered the red man episode. It is the best cribs episode and I love that he kept it real.

[@esilva8349]

MTVcribs with help from BlockBuster's used videos, caused me to have a massive DVD collection. Since I couldn't afford the car collections (neither could they apparently) but almost every episode had to mention their DVD collection and then pulling out Scarface.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Ja Rule is the biggest goofball in the universe. Also Vin Diesel and Ja Rule are definitely related. You can’t tell me otherwise. They have the same voice

[@CarolineBearoline]

Yours is by far the most accurate comment... maybe ever. Goobers, both of them!

[@slowanddeliberate6893]

They might be cousins.

[@StanStacks]

@@CarolineBearolineI’m gay

[@CarolineBearoline]

@@StanStacks my man ❤️ I miss being gay with you guys over on Future's channel

[@user-uc2qb1zz4h]

50 cents pontiacs were not his either. They were on loan from a dealer (I saw one for sale). I also love that he got lost several times in the house during filming.

[@creightonjason]

I couldnt stand the man, total idiot - Very happy to see that he didnt own the hos and he later went bust

[@riinaldo]

Yesss!! I've been waiting for this video ever since the community post

[@hatednyc]

In Consumerist, Consumption Heavy 1980’s, Lifestyles of the R & F was KING! Showed audiences what REAL Wealth looks like - giving an incredibly rare look at “how the other half lives.”

[@KevinPayton-fq8gd]

I loved that show.

[@samanthab1923]

I remember realizing Robbie Williams English estate wasn’t his. Recognized Jane Seymour’s St Catherine’s Court.

[@MediaPastimes]

In my research I saw that she’s always been very public when it comes to that castle, it’s hilarious that he tried to pass it off as his own.

[@samanthab1923]

@@MediaPastimes Right? I think they had rented it out to record in & then just stayed to do CRIBS.

[@Fla5thgenTryMe]

Man. I loved this show and still watch clips now and then. Also the Osbornes was hilarious cringe sad etc. The 10 spot was must see. Thanks dude. Please cover the 10 spot in depth.

[@TheCheat420]

The 10 Spot and Sucka Free Sundays

[@TheGeneral_LUFC]

Now u know its fake u still watch.

[@Tool30301]

Couldn't wait for this one

[@JAlonge017]

I liked this episode a lot, it showed good cribs episodes. I even liked all the segments you showed. I guess I like you as a content creator so ima sub

[@MediaPastimes]

Is this a marriage proposal, bro? My answer is yes 🙂

[@kidsyx]

Redman showing us around his crack den was the greatest episode, hands down 😂

[@nuzoe7134]

Far from a crack house 😂 redman the most real guy

[@kidsyx]

@@nuzoe7134 he's not a crack head, but that was a crack house my friend 😂 I grew up in one of those so that's how I know Redman is the realest. 😂

[@aldxbaran]

I dont think it looked THAT bad, just looked like a normal home/studio

[@amynurss1375]

Ha Ja Rule passing off a rental as his house. Maybe he should have put it up as collateral for Fyre Festival.

[@mr.enrike2564]

He said he rented it. No lie detected

[@Velo1010]

Man, you just gotta love the old days of MTV.

[@kellingtonlink956]

A brilliant idea for a video. Thanks.

[@liamwynne566]

Another great video, man! Did you ever see the Ricky Gervais Cribs parody? I think it was an extra on the Invention of lying DVD. I seem to recall it being pretty funny, but my brain could just be bullshitting me I dunno 🤷

[@MediaPastimes]

There were so. many. parodies... I legit had to scroll past like, dozens of them while searching out clips for this. But I haven't seen that one, although Ricky Gervais does rock 🤙

[@nickmoney]

My favorite is still the Jackass one. Turns out the Chris Pontius living in his car was real since he didn't move into a house until he had a family in 2010s.

[@whome1202]

I still remember mid 90s to late 90s and really early 2000s watching music videos none stop late night or really early in the morning the good old days and in the 90s watching beavis n butthead roast music videos lol those were the days best days that we will never come close to getting back I’ll never forget beavis n butthead watching smells like teen spirit when it’s starting they see the janitor and butthead says “beavis’s dad” lol

[@jbac5767]

Seeing all the old tech is amazing.

[@whitedevil2]

who the hell is still watching MTV??

[@Lazirus951]

I wasn't expecting to feel sorry for some of these celebs, but some had giant empty mansions that looked like an art museum. It didn't seem like anyone actually enjoyed life there.

[@Jetaime206]

Nice video man

[@AllsWellInHell]

AMERICAN MOVIE !!! I live close to Milwaukee now and it’s so cool to check those spots out from the documentary :) this was so rad, thanks for making such rad content !!! makes me nostalgic for when I’d bug my neighbor to show me cool shit as a kid when he was watching jackass and samurai champloo listening to slipknot and System of a Down haha

[@cosmicjenny4508]

The only REAL episode of MTV Cribs was Tommy Tallarico’s! His mother is very proud of him. Another awesome video, love it when you upload.

[@ju5t1ce33]

Red Man

[@Diwasho]

@@ju5t1ce33 I dunno, the camera crew must be making so much noise I honestly doubt that his cousin was actually sleeping during the tour and recording. But it's probably one of the more honest tours I guess.

[@MrEazyE357]

Wait, wasn't Prestige the same company Bowwow took the picture from of the car and private jet, insinuating that he was traveling in them? Then someone saw him in coach at the exact same time he posted the photo?

[@jasongonzalez2856]

I am glad that ,I am 41 and mtv and bet were cold asf joe!Such great cable tv from the 80's,90's and early 2000's...

[@UncleUnbated]

Yoooooooo our boy has risen from the ashes ! Great video as always man

[@MediaPastimes]

They call me Media “Phoenix” Pastimes for a reason, playboi 😎

[@UncleUnbated]

@@MediaPastimes Amazing, I'll try to get a face tattoo of that

[@MediaPastimes]

I understood that reference.

[@miztamacondatrack]

Can’t mention fakery without bow wow

[@jedwalker4543]

I’ll never forget how Lil John made sure everyone knew that he had the exact same rug in his bedroom as Usher. And that one guy who showed off his Crystal Light

[@Canthatcrazy]

Wish they do an MTV Vintage and just play all the old 24 hour slots from the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. Id watch

[@Sonicfalcon16]

Theyll have a spin off. "KZbinrs cribs" heres media pastimes crib. Rents 17 cars and is like "i uh actually dont own any of these so we just gonna skip to the next part if the house"

[@MediaPastimes]

Nah I’d show off my 1993 Geo Metro with pride 😎

[@Sonicfalcon16]

@@MediaPastimes that would be a hell of a face reveal. I'ld be cool with that

[@truthiscensored]

nah it will be the "Fake Online Gurus" crips. Get to see Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez, and those like them rented mansions as they sell you their overpriced courses.

[@ETS186]

15:18 Yes! I remember this episode! God that was the best cribs for me! I remember watching with my friend's fam and we just laughed out loud. "This guy is living in his truck!" 😂

[@ChrisOseProduction]

You have a really good voice! (y)

[@tokesalotta1521]

Whenever people clown social media "influencers" for fakery, I point out how celebrities do the same

[@TastyChurro]

To me I think the most genuine episode was the Jackass crew episode. Edit: I totally forgot the Gorillaz episode lol That's the most genuine episode lol

[@MediaPastimes]

1000%. Every segment within that episode was real. The only thing that was faked during that episode was the cleanliness of Bam's bedroom, but at least he admitted that it usually didn't look like that.

[@TastyChurro]

@Media Pastimes oh and on Radio Bam Bam talked about Cribs. I don't know if you ever mentioned Radio Bam but it's a nice time capsule.

[@MediaPastimes]

Back when this channel was called RadioBamFan I posted that clip in a dedicated video, almost put it into this one.

[@TastyChurro]

@Media Pastimes ooooooohh yea I forgot that's how I found you lol Radio Bam needs it's own video. So much content can be made from just Radio Bam alone.

[@marly-paigepetersen]

I loved him. I need to revisit some of these movies

[@chancepaladin]

damn I remember every one of those OG episodes beat for beat like it was yesterday. classic, instant nostalgia.

[@tmn8547]

I always wondered why they never had food in their fridge! Now I know it’s cause it wasn’t their place! 😂😂😂😂 smh