The Classic Rap-Related Films Thread
drewnice
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looking for joints I may have missed...plaese add on.... 
drewnice
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looking for joints I may have missed...plaese add on....
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It's acquired a new and sad significance in 2006 for all of the footage of neighborhoods that don't really exist anymore.
Too bad about the plot...
I was just going to ask about this one. Never saw it. Cringe-inducing or still worth checking out?
Both, it is nice looking, but the writing is really bad. It does have my favorite line in the history of cinema, as uttered by T-Boz, "African is far!"
Unspeakably bad.
Pretty much. You can pick it up at just about any point in the movie and your viewing experience won't really suffer.
Y'all are tripping to mention Belly and overlook the best scenes and lines of the movie, namely everything Louie Rankin-related.
"Unu waan ramp wit me? Me shot pu**y'ole people fi FUN!"
Beyond that, just watch it on mute and play an early Nas record.
I cram to understand how this is rap related.
Most rappers are not actually the characters that they portray--wow, what a subtle and revelatory critique!
This movie is trash.
Don't let it stress you out, homey. How about urban drama-related?
And another one...
That's a good movie, but I'd have to come down on the side of it not being rap-related--I know from recently watching the DVD version with commentary, that the writer/director was consciously trying to tell a story about a Black kid that wasn't a rapsploitation film.
The actor who plays the title character went on to play D'Andre McCullough in The Corner, the only other thing I've seen him in--he desrves to get more work.
GREAT MOVIE!!!
I liked it--maybe even Singleton's best film, although I haven't seen Boyz since I was a teenager, so I can't really call it.
In that case, Straight Outta Brooklyn is amazing--flawed in some of the ways that you would expect a self-financed film by a 19 year old to be, but really raw and affecting.
And stars Larry Gilyard, who went on to play D'Angelo Barksdale on The Wire ten years later, another really slept-on talent.
http://www.myspace.com/woodharris
CB4 is just a poor man's version of this film. And FOABH isn't that incredible either.
I took a semi-date to see this one. She later told me that if we were to ever be serious, I would have to start watching "normal movies".
LOL, this was on HBO while I was getting ready for work some day last week and I couldn't believe how S.L.O.W this movie is. I remember it being good, but not at a snail's pace.
Wonderin'
Loved it. The novel of the same name by Richard Price is also very good, as are the two other books in his trilogy of novels set in the fictional Dempsey, New Jersey... Freedomland the recent movie based on the second of those novels was awful, though.