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Those in need of leadership from teenage rappers have found their savior. Dominique Young Unique, the buzz-inducing, 19-year-old wordsmith from Tampa recently released the video for "Follow The Leader," the first single from her debut mixtape, Glamorous Touch.

While sadly -- or fortunately, depending on your point of view -- not a remake of Eric B. & Rakim's classic song, the club-friendly track blends Unique's hip-hop background with electro- and house-inspired beats. With a chant of "I'll be your leader," we can picture this being the soundtrack at some misguided future political rally organized by a group of people trying to ascertain what "the kids" like.

The video features numerous close-ups of the charismatic and expressive rapper alongside animation that may have Disney's lawyers raising an eyebrow. The animated hands could be any mouse, Dominique, but using your name in the Disney font? May want to have your attorney on speed dial, just in case.

Judging by the video, the unsigned rapper clearly is ready for fame. You can listen to Glamorous Touch in its entirety on Dominique's SoundCloud page.

+ Watch Dominique Young Unique's "Follow the Leader" video.

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When the video shoot for Erykah Badu's "Honey" stretched into a nearly 24-hour-long affair, Erykah, ever the detail-minded pro -- and perhaps making up for the long stretch between 2003's Worldwide Underground and her upcoming album, New Amerykah -- stayed on task for every minute of the epic event.

Christopher Robinson, of Robot Films, directed the video; he's also pretty much Alicia Keys' right-hand director man, responsible for "Fallin'," "A Woman's Worth," "Karma" and "You Don't Know My Name" to name a few. "No leisurely pace here," wrote Robot Films president Jeffrey Rhodes of Erykah during the December 2007 shoot. "She was awake, alert and moving at supersonic speeds the whole 22 hours."

And it shows.

Check out the finished product above; the video puts a feminine twist on Outkast's "Hey Ya!" video, shouts out classic hip-hop, funk and soul albums and artists like the Ohio Players, Nas, Eric B. & Rakim and De La Soul, (watch for an Olivia Newton-John send-up too) makes not one but two Beatles refs, and pays tribute to a sadly dying institution: the Mom & Pop record shop.

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