Video: Semi Precious Weapons' Justin Tranter Rocks Fashion Week

Semi Precious Weapons' outrageous frontman Justin Tranter served as Rolling Stone's correspondent during Fashion Week in New York City, and our cameras followed Tranter as he navigated from the biggest runway shows like Betsey Johnson to the after-hour party hangouts with Perez Hilton and Lady Gaga. The whole week culminates with the Semi Precious Weapons serving up their neo-glam rock with a performance at New York's Irving Plaza. To experience all of Tranter's adventures and misadventures during Fashion Week, check out our exclusive video above.

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“Baby Got Back”

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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