Video: Green Day's Trailer For 'Awesome As F**k'

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Green Day have released a trailer for Awesome As F**k, a forthcoming DVD/CD combo release documenting their most recent stadium tour in support of the album 21st Century Breakdown. Though the trailer says the discs are due in March, a specific release date has yet to be announced.

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The clip is focused on a snippet of the single "Know Your Enemy" being played before a seemingly infinite audience at an unknown venue, but also includes brief glimpses of pyrotechnics, theatrical moments involving a guy in a skeleton suit, confetti cannons and other things that make a Green Day show seem, well, awesome as f**k.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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