By Rebecca Thomas
Clap for this: Waka Flocka Flame's Flame's "Round of Applause" video finally dropped this week, hitting the indispensable MTV Jams after weeks of snaps from the set and behind-the-scenes looks. Though the Drake-assisted, Lex Luger-produced single is Club Motivation for pro dancers, the Bricksquad MC promised more than just your standard strip clip. You decide if he delivered.
The Mr. Boomtown-directed "Applause" opens with a flashback of a young Juaquin Malphurs yoking his girl "Eva" with a necklace, "just two kids in love"; she's in an Obey snapback, while a pre-fame "Waka" sports chin-grazing locks.
But that was back when things were still simple -- everybody knows young love doesn't last. So a grown-up Eva (played by "Basketball Wives L.A." vixen Draya Michele) gets caught up in the life, and Flocka's forced to watch it all go down at Diamonds gentleman's club in the A. Draya mostly struts across the Atlanta spot carrying an ominous-looking handbag, when she's not steering her way through a high-speed car chase. Apparently, the dancers at this particular club are well-compensated, because the stacks are flying and the (paper) racks are spread out on a table.
MTV News' #2 Hottest MC in the Game steps in to spit (ahem, yes, spit) that verse: "Bus it like you can't afford a car, you a star/ You look in the mirror, you know who you are." As for the décor, they go hard in the (body) paint, spraying a handful of girls with the song's title and letting it bleed onto the walls.
Before the proceedings draw to a close, Waka, clad in his signature Varsity jacket, descends a staircase ... and soon he's running after Eva. The alternately upbeat and dramatic clip ends with a familiar small-screen plot device: To be continued.
So did you clap for it? Sound off on the "Round of Applause" video in the comments or tweet us @MTVRapFix!
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