“I was doing long-form music news pieces and documentaries, covering artists and celebrities in very structured interviews.

Back then, we didnt have much access to peek behind the curtain and intimacy with our favorite artists.

There was much more mystique surrounding celebrity images.”

Mariah Carey Cribs

Credit: MTV

At first celebrity reps were (understandably) nervous about the concept.

In this era of sheltering-in-place, and to celebrate the 20-year milestone, we honor the shows greatest shelters-without-taste.

The dress code at the rappers sprawling five-bedroom dockside Miami mansion?

Rap-video festiveas in, lets throw a champagne-soaked pool party for 600 of your nearest and wildest friends.

Ja Rule didnt own the house it was a rental.

Fiddy dubbed his 19-bedroom, six-kitchen retreat an East Coast Playboy Mansion, though Charmless Convention Center also works.

Just like Sister Parish designed for the Kennedy White House… Let them eat cake!

and she barely gets a word in throughout the tour.

It seems it was always her destiny to be Poor Michelle.

We admire the rules gotta keep it neat and tidy, when the pimp’s in the crib.

dogs, and got to hear Dick Clark called “a real player.”

All in all, a great Crizzle.

RICHARD BRANSON

The Virgin mogul spent $80,000,000 renovating his private island compound all 74 acres of it.

We imagine a considerable amount of the budget went on the numerous outdoor bathrooms.

The episode even ends with Sir Rich taking an al-fresco, oceanside poop.

We sh you not.