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WATCH IT: Lil Wayne "How To Love" (Chris Robinson, dir.)

There are choices in life, but there's also lots outside your control. Lil Wayne goes deep on this video for "How To Love," showing two different outcomes for a young girl whose life nearly ends before it even begins. One outcome has her raised in an abusive household and ends up with her stripping, hooking and getting some bad news from a doctor. In an alternate reality, everything is different, including the news from the doctor. --> watch "How To Love"

WATCH IT: Kanye West "Monster" (Jake Nava, dir.)

Kanye says: Don't call it misogynistic, call it an art piece. Percolating online in an unfinished form for a while now, Kanye West's "Monster" is now officially out, with the rapper and his A-List collaborators looming and/or lusting over dead sexy bodies. Maybe it's to show that most rap video chicks are presented as nothing more than eye-candy, mere props, so why not just make them lifeless. Or maybe it's meant to be the sexiest coolest horror-core video of all time. It's probably not misogynistic — although a Woman's Studies professor could sure prove me wrong, especially with a close reading of the Nicki Minaj segment — but it's undeniably disturbing.