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The bootylicious star of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” video reveals all to Playboy 

Knockout Playboy model Rita Granberry (a.k.a. Rita G.) stars in Kanye West’s new video for “Flashing Lights,” a cut from his Grammy-winning album Graduation. Co-directed by Spike Jonze and shot in the freezing cold Nevada desert, Rita dons little more than sky-high heels as the scorned lover to West’s bound-and-gagged victim locked in the trunk of her car. The video shows Rita pummeling West with a shovel after she sets fire to her fur coat. “It’s sort of a cliffhanger,” Rita tells Playboy.com. “It’s an interpretive video — and I play the villain! Spike Jonze kept yelling, ‘Walk like a killer!’ during the shoot. It was amazing.” So how did she score the gig? “Kanye’s a big fan of mine,” she gushes, describing him as “shy and soft-spoken” on the set, where he did everything from styling to directing. After recording two other versions of “Flashing Lights” with another model, West requested Rita, whom he had talked up in his 2006 Playboy Interview: “The best girl you had in the past three years has to be Rita G., the Spanish girl. She’s got an ass even white people like.”