Rapper, director claim they had no clue scantily clad music video dancer was an NYPD detective
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The rapper and director behind the music video featuring an NYPD detective twerking in a thong claimed in their first public comments since the song went viral that they had no idea during production that their “star” dancer was a member of New York’s Finest. Pitch Perfect, who directed the raunchy video for rapper S-Quire, told TMZ in a Friday interview that the duo hired Melissa Mercado, a seven-year vet of the NYPD, from a casting agency and insisted the shoot was handled professionally. “None of us were aware of...
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