1 / 4 century in the past, we first obtained the keys to celeb properties throughout the nation with MTV Cribs. The docuseries, which launched in September 2020, adopted celebs — at the very least, those that allowed MTV’s digicam crews into their inside sanctums — as they gave excursions of their homes.
“We began with a really casual in-house speak about, ‘Hey, let’s strive to do that,’ and on the time everybody thought it could be unattainable as a result of nobody was going to let folks peek into their lives that method,” creator Nina L. Diaz informed Thrillist in 2015.
Certainly, the Cribs staff did have bother persuading celebs to open their doorways, however they finally discovered keen members, producer Erika Clarke defined. “Rappers and athletes had been far more into doing it due to the tradition of, ‘Take a look at what we now have,’” Clarke mentioned.
Now, 25 years on, sure Cribs episodes have turn into immortal, and lots of are nonetheless yours for the viewing on YouTube. Listed below are our picks for the wildest Cribs excursions.
8. Leslie Jordan
Within the late sitcom star’s Cribs look, he revealed he inherited his condominium from Tupac Shakur, was “scared to loss of life” of the tree on his balcony, and had his underpants monogrammed. However the very best half got here when he riffed on a Cribs trope: “Right here is the bed room, the boudoir, the place the magic occurs,” he says, earlier than cracking up. “Guess what? There’s no magic! Nothing occurs in right here!”
7. JoJo
Good factor this pop star’s uncle didn’t sing “get out (go away) proper now”! She claimed his Cape Cod home was her personal for her Cribs tour. “My mother and I had been residing out of suitcases, and we had been principally in resorts,” she admitted to HuffPost in 2015. “I ought to’ve balled exhausting and been like, ‘Welcome to my crib, take a look at how luxurious it’s,’ and I ought to have rented out a spot. However no. I simply used my uncle’s crib. In order that was me mendacity on Cribs.”
6. Lil Wayne & Birdman
MTV Cribs revealed how these two Money Cash rappers shared a New Orleans pad with an octagonal residing space, the centerpiece of which was an indoor sizzling tub. (“We didn’t need no furnishings,” Birdman defined. “We had been simply gonna do one thing totally different.”) And as if that weren’t distinctive sufficient, the pair additionally had a purple stretch Chrysler PT Cruiser parked exterior.
5. Shaquille O’Neal
Name it Orlando Magic: This NBA star’s Florida dwelling had a spherical, Superman-themed mattress measuring 15 toes lengthy and 30 toes huge. “I needed it to be the most important mattress on the earth, and that is the mattress that they made me,” he mentioned throughout his Cribs tour. Nicely, he did have a mega-mansion to fill a technique or one other…
4. 50 Cent
With 51,657 sq. toes, 19 bedrooms, 35 loos, and 17.6 acres, is that this Connecticut mansion “Only a Lil Bit” extreme? Not less than 50 had fellow G-Unit rappers to share the area with. Nonetheless, the posh wasn’t all it was cracked as much as be on Cribs: The rapper was promoting the home on the time the episode aired, and he lastly discovered a purchaser 12 years later, after an 84 % worth lower, as Individuals reported.
3. Robbie Williams
The fortress this British pop star flaunted in his Cribs episode was truly a property he’d rented from Jane Seymour, and he additionally rented butlers for the taping, as he confessed in a 2020 radio interview (per The Solar). “We didn’t let her know that I used to be going to fake it was my home,” he added. “And since I used to be like 23 and filled with spunk, I didn’t even contemplate different folks’s ideas or emotions, so I want to take this chance to apologize to Jane Seymour.”
2. Mariah Carey
All these years later, Carey’s MTV Cribs episode nonetheless has followers “Obsessed.” As she gave a tour of her huge New York Metropolis condominium (between a number of costume modifications, we must always add), the pop diva confirmed off an in-house salon, a lingerie closet, a mermaid-themed screening room, and in a single second of iconic actuality TV, she began utilizing the stair-climber machine in her dwelling gymnasium whereas carrying four-inch heels.
1. Redman
Essentially the most notorious Cribs tour was that of Redman’s Staten Island “De La Casa” in all its raveled glory: garments in storage bins, a cousin sleeping on the ground, money in a shoebox, two uncovered wires as a substitute of a doorbell. Redman informed Thrillist he at the very least needed to scrub up the place, however the MTV crew turned up early. “Once they knocked on the door, I used to be nonetheless sleepy-eyed, and so they had been like, ‘ what, that is good, let’s simply roll with it. You simply get again into mattress, and we’ll make it like we simply disturbed you,’ and we performed it proper on out from there,” he mentioned. “Not an excessive amount of setup, not an excessive amount of dialogue to go over. We simply winged it.”