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Two videos were made for Money Don’t Matter 2 Night, one directed by Spike Lee, which has footage, shot in black and white, of a family trying to make ends meet. It is interspersed with images of the great depression in the 30s as well as poverty and unemployment in the 80s and 90s. Footage of President George Bush, National Security Advisor Colin Powell, general Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. and (by then) businessman Donald Trump, are also in the footage, as well as images of wealth (a casino, a ball), and shanty-town Soweto, the 1990 war in Iraq and refugees. The footage has some lyrics to the song overlaid in red, blue and yellow.
A second video was directed by Sotera Tschetter and shows Prince and The NPG performing the song in the studio. The footage of this was shot in Mid January 1992, together with footage for the Willing And Able, Call The Law and Daddy Pop videos.
A third video combined the Spike Lee 'political' version with the Sotera Tschetter live band version. This combined version of Money Don’t Matter 2 Night, as well as the Spike Lee version premiered on the same day, 14 April 1992. The Sotera Tschetter performance only video was never released on its own, while both other versions were made available in 2017.
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