Rapper & Director Behind NYPD Pole-Dancer Music Video Defend Detective

S-Quire and Pitch Excellent, the rapper and director behind the week’s hottest rap music video, aren’t celebrating the viral second their video vixen turned out to be an NYPD detective … she was such a professional, they employed her from a legit casting company!!!

TMZ Hip Hop spoke to each artists about their “Doin That” video, now notorious for Detective Melissa Mercado‘s thong-twerking and pole-dancing strikes inside a strip membership rented out for the video.

S-Quire says having the “cop rap video” isn’t a tag he desires on his jacket and divulges the onscreen chemistry he and Mercado shared was merely showmanship … which you’ll see within the BTS footage beneath.

Pitch has tons of video shoots below his belt, together with “Bodak Yellow,” the one which blew up Cardi B‘s profession, and he says “Doin That” has been one of many quickest climbers he is had with a brand new artist … however they each guarantee the video was sitting at million views earlier than her police occupation was unfold throughout the web.

Pitch is a longtime exec of WorldStarHipHop, which hosted the “Doin That” video … they provide tons of visitors, even for newcomers.

They do, although, admit Mercado’s magnificence attracted the majority of the views.

Each guys inform us they have not spoken to Mercado however want her one of the best, particularly seeing among the hate mail she’s obtained for being a police officer.

S-Quire hails from Hempstead, Lengthy Island and says he is been making music for over a decade.

He is completely happy together with his strip membership anthem however says his subsequent document “Ten Toes Down” might be a 180-degree departure from this fiasco!!!

NYPD hasn’t formally commented however sources have indicated they’re sticking by the detective.