As if this day couldn’t get any worse, a couple of F-18 fighter jets start flying through the city, and one of them explodes right in front of Diddy, knocking him back into the elevator. As the elevator shoots him up at a rate of 10 floors a second, he throws off his jacket and raps even harder, like he’s challenging the ceiling of the elevator to take this outside.
And the elevator takes him up on that because that thing Willy Wonkas right through the roof of the building, ejecting Diddy out the top with enough force to make him explode into a flock of white doves. He then rematerializes out of a cloud, now dressed in white since this is the unjust world we live in. Biggie Smalls stays dead, but his producer gets to be reborn like Gandalf.
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Diddy falls back down to earth onto a stage in the middle of Times Square. A 60-piece orchestra is performing the song while Jimmy Page backs them up live via satellite on the Jumbotron. All the while, the U.S. military is still fighting the 200-foot radioactive lizard destroying the city in the background. As the song wraps up, Godzilla takes a break from the carnage to crouch down in front of the stage to come face-to-face with Diddy.
And here is where we see Diddy’s true nature. After everything he’s been through today: the interrupted wet dream, the bus, the jet, the elevator, transmogrification, reincarnation, gravity, the boiling hatred of every Led Zeppelin fan … Diddy is able to stare Godzilla in the face, then turn his back on him as if to say, “I rebuke you, foul lizard. Begone!”
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If there’s one thing that could’ve saved the cinematic port-a-potty explosion that was Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla, it’d be to re-edit the film to incorporate the events of this music video into the narrative. Instead of the movie ending with the firebombing of Madison Square Garden, we would see Godzilla sulking back into the ocean after being dissed by Diddy, to the chorus of every survivor in midtown Manhattan going, “Daaaaaaaaaaamn!”