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What is a rant?

intransitive verb
1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently

transitive verb : to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion

In that spirit, we at Infected Tube have put together this classic collection that we’re calling The Best Rants Of All Time Caught On Video

When Michael Jackson passed away, and the media fawned over the recently deceased, one belligerent little Congressman decided that he had had enough – “Congressman Pete King feels that we should be honoring the good men and women of our country who have dedicated their lives to helping others and serving our country not Michael Jackson.” OK. Sure.

In this infamous clip, Christian Bale absolutely flips his shit on the set of Terminator Salvation when a member of the crew interrupts the deep concentration that playing such a serious role in a work of art such as Terminator Salvation requires:

Once upon a time there was an Inside Edition anchor named Bill O’Reilly. Today he’s the leading voice of Fox News, and sometimes goes by the name of Papa Bear. But many years ago, he had a run-in with a teleprompter that shook him to the core. Without further adieu, let’s do it live!

On the topic of Papa Bear, Stephen Colbert unearthed some more footage of this infamous meltdown:
A couple years ago, Alec Baldwin decided that he had taken enough crap from his ‘rude thoughtless pig’ of a 12 year old daughter. So he left her this voicemail:

In this infamous clip that somehow found its way off the set of I Heart Huckabees, actress Lily Tomlin and director David O. Russell unload on each other:

When Dennis Green, then coach of the Arizona Cardinals, watched his team let a victory over the bears slip away, he lost his cool. To think, the Bears were who they thought they were, and then…they let them off the hook:

Denny Green isn’t the only football coach who list his shit during a post game press conference. When a reporter asked Jim Mora about the possibility of the playoffs for the Colts, he was, well, befuddled. The classic rant was later immortalized in this Coors Light Commercial.

Rick Santelli, reporting for CNBC from the pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, rants about…homeowners defaulting on mortgages…tea parties…who knows. America, Fuck Yeah!

When MTV didn’t give Kanye West the awards that the autotuned Gay Fish felt he was entitled to, well that was just too much:

You don’t need to be a celebrity to record a world famous rant in the age of the Internets…Let’s be honest, who actually knows the name of the Leave Britney Alone ranter:

Michael Richards, better known as Cosmo Kramer, lost it one sad, sad night at the Laugh Factory in 2006. Real? A Joke? Racist? We report. You decide. Or something:

Henry Rollins – America Is Under Attack. In the grand tradition of musicians making political statements, Henry Rollins goes absolutely nuts on everyone who is screwing up America.

Keeping in the spirit of our medium, we present to you another CNBC correspondent, a dweeby looking man named Dennis Kneale who–bless his sad, small brain–realized he could call bloggers Digital Dickweeds on air and get away with it. Of course we later learned that the whole thing was an act–perhaps he wasn’t as stupid as he looked and sounded–meant to attract viewers and the all important ratings. Keep it classy Dennis:

We’ll close with a fictional rant, by one Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch), in the masterpiece 1976 film Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. He was, Mad As Hell, And He Wasn’t Going To Take It Anymore:

Want more? Check out YouTube playlists dedicated to ‘Meltdowns caught on tape.’

The Urban Dictionary defines a chain as:

A rapper’s source of power. The sunlight to his birdman. Without a chain of platinum/gold/diamonds/bo nes, a rapper loses his ability to drop tight flows over phat beats. The is an absolute necessity, and its importance should not be taken lightly.

Ludacris once said, “Some people ask why there’s a skull on my chain, it’s ’cause I LOVE gettin’ head.”

While nearly all rappers today sport awfully gaudy jewelry, there are some artists who have taken things to another level of ridiculousness. Today we salute a few of these absurd-o-bling sporting gentlemen:

In the picture below, Busta Rhymes sports a number of chains, but the one that stands out is the diamond crusted bull, which comes complete with a ring through its nose.


Next up we have R&B crooner Sean Kingston. We’ll leave the commentary on this piece to A Hot Mess!:

I know he doesn’t have a gold chain with crayons on it. That shit doesn’t even say “Crayola”. WOW! A mess at him getting this stupid ass chain in the first place, but to top it off he modeled the shit after the “Rose” brand they sell at Walgreen’s.

In the picture below Skateboard P is sporting a chain featuring diamond cartoon characters. EDIT: The man rocking the giant Dollar Sign Chain Is BAPE founder Nigo


Next we have plus sized rapper, Fat Joe. His chain is fashioned to look like an I-95 shield (google I-95 Drugs for some context). The text on the shield reads ‘Coca Baby,’ in case you thought he was some sort of road-geek.


Kanye West demands to be recognized (see the Grammys, European VMAs, etc.), so we’ll include his Jesus chain. Nothing says you love your lord like a diamond crusted version of him worn around your neck.


Young Joc likes to remind folks about his album Hustlenomics by sporting a giant diamond crusted H. Perhaps he wrote off the cost of the chain as marketing material?


Famous rapper Slick Rick is sporting too many pieces of jewelry to count in this photo, but note the Scales of Justice chain–a nod to his trouble with the law.


Nas released I Am… back in 1999, an album which featured a golden pharaoh version of Nas on the cover. As long as you’re going to print 2 million copies of the image, you might as well have it cast in gold.


Lil’ Jon deserves mention for his “Crunk Ain’t Dead” chain, as the chain is a record holder:

Check out Lil Jon’s Guinness Record-busting “Largest Diamond Pendant” — a $500K, 7.5″ x 6″ x 1″, 5.11 lb, 73 carat, 3756 round-cut diamond, 18K yellow-and-white gold monstrosity created by Jason of Beverly Hills

And the winner is? Rick Ross by a mile. While some rappers sport pieces related to their region, criminal history, record label, etc., no one to our knowledge had just gone ahead and put their own face on a chain (We don’t count Nas the Pharaoh). The purpose of a chain is to draw attention to yourself–as Jay-Z raps Said she loved my necklace, started relaxin / Now that’s what the fuck I call a chain reaction–and nothing says look at me like a yellow diamond pendant version of you (including ridiculous beard). And where was Rick Ross caught wearing this piece? At the 7th Annual Ghetto Diamond Awards in Jacksonville Florida


Bonus: Ghostface Killa and his Eagle Bracelet. Wikipedia: Ghostface has an eccentric collection of unique jewelry that he mentions frequently in verse and interviews. Items heavily referenced are his “eagle bracelet”, a golden eagle statuette worn on his forearm (which has since been melted down), as well as the “Versace Plate” medallion.