Episode 70

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12th Jun 2024

Does "Fear of a Black Hat" hold up after all these years?

Fear of a Black Hat (1993) is a film satirizing some of the biggest hip hop acts of that era. It is replete with parody songs and wild shenanigans. But is it as good as the other classic hip hop parody films CB4 or Don't Be a Menace to Society While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood?

Topics discussed:

  • The movie spoofs several of the big name hip hop acts from the late 80's and early 90's.  
  • The movie is in a mockumentary format and draws some comparisons to "This is Spinal Tap."  
  • The parody songs were pretty well constructed and quite catchy. 
  • There are a few side-splittingly funny moments. 
  • It's debatable whether the movie holds up.  

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Transcript
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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show

that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with

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the magic of movies.

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Today we're discussing Fear of a Black

Hat, a 90s mockumentary which spoofs

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several hip hop acts and the ideology of

the era.

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We're three old heads who put their old

heads together to vibe on these films for

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you.

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I'm Dyno Wright, podcaster, filmmaker,

longtime hip hop fan, and if I had to

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pick...

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Fear of a Black Planet is my go-to Public

Enemy album.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long

time hip hop fan, and I'm the pinnacle.

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That means I reign supreme, I'm notorious,

I'll crush you like a jelly bean.

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a DJ, long time hip hop fan, and I

finally, after all these years, get to see

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Rakim and KRS-One in concert Friday night.

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In this episode, we'll answer the

question, is Fear of a Black Hat worth

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watching?

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And we'll give you five key takeaways to

make you a smarter hip-hop movie fan.

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Fear of a Black Hat is a 1993 film

satirizing some of the biggest hip hop

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acts of that era.

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It is replete with parody songs and wild

shenanigans.

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Here are five things you need to know

about Fear of a Black Hat.

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One, the movie spoofed several of the big

name hip hop acts from the late 80s and

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early 90s.

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Two, the movie is in a mockumentary format

and draws some comparisons to This is

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Spinal Tap.

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Three, the parody songs were pretty well

constructed and quite catchy.

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Four, there are a few side -splittingly

funny moments.

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And five, it's debatable whether the movie

holds up.

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All right, fellas, let us get into this

silly, silly movie called Fear of Black

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Hat.

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Boogie, wanna kick us off in terms of some

of the folks that this movie spoofs upon

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that were big names in that era of hip

hop.

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I give give few of them right off the bat

I noticed right away.

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So I say Public Enemy was one of the first

ones that stood out to me.

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I mean, you had the group dynamics.

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You had one character who's, you know,

like a Chuck D-ish type character, another

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guy who's kind of giving his ad -libs and

bouncing around kind of like Flavor Flav

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The name itself, NWH, is an easy callback

to NWA and also Eazy-E

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see a spoof of PM Dawn, LL Cool J and

Ice-T and there's some others.

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I'll let you guys chime in on some of

that.

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You're done, right?

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Do you want to add it to a few of those?

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One of them was Marky Mark and the Funky

Bunch.

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I think that was the other one.

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That was a big one.

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I thought I saw some elements of Digital

Underground, but I wasn't quite sure if I

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really saw it or not.

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But Boogie covered most of them, the ones

I noticed.

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I'll add a few as well.

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I mean, there was a cat called MC Slammer,

which is obviously Hammer.

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And then there's, he dropped the MC just

like Hammer did.

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Vanilla Sherbert instead of Vanilla Ice.

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got me laughing a little bit.

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And then they spoofed salt and pepper

where they had the four girls, Parsley,

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Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

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Hey, and guess what?

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Foreshadowing, right?

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They were saying, we're more spices.

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And little did they know there would be an

act called the Spice Girls several years

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down the road, right?

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There were three.

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There was another thing where they did all

the guys with the name Ice, just as a

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joke, it was like ice tray, ice coffee.

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-hmm.

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a few others.

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And they even spoofed the big name

directors that we spoke about on our

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podcast, Spike Lee and John Singleton with

a guy named Jike Spingleton and New Mac

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Village, which was a spoof of New Jack

City.

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They showed a clip from that.

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So yeah, they didn't hold back and they

covered a lot of the big acts from that

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timeframe.

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So yeah.

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You're right, Boogie, it was like they did

play off of Public Enemy, but then also a

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lot of it was NWA and Larry B Scott's

character.

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I think he pulled it off pretty well.

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You would never realize he was the same

flamboyant guy Lamar from Revenge of the

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Nerds.

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He spoofed both Lamar, exactly, with the

javelin.

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I always think about that scene with the

javelin.

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man, when I was a...

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Tasty Taste was his name here.

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So he played a pretty convincing, you

know, gangster, Eazy-E style.

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was like an Eazy E meets flavor flav kind

of thing?

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Was interesting, yeah.

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So those were some of the key ones.

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We'll get into the parodies in a little

bit, but the songs, but the movie itself

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is done in a mockumentary format.

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It was like fake documentary, with a woman

named Nina Blackburn in the film following

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the crew around.

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And it drew some comparisons to this is

spinal tap.

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So DynoWright I think you had some notes

about Spinal Tap Like what do you think,

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for This is Spinal Tap, what are the basic

comparisons that you saw?

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Cause I know you were familiar with that

one.

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So the basic one is there wasn't really

much of a plot in this movie and then you

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just sort of follow the band as they go

and their rise and fall.

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They had a lot of familiar things for

music acts like performing and inter band

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dynamics and politics.

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And so they have a Tasty Taste girlfriend

does this kind of like Yoko Ono ish kind

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of thing where she tries to split the band

up and...

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We can get into that later.

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But the other obvious one is that they go

through a lot of managers, like Spinal Tap

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went through a lot of drummers.

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So that was actually one of the funnier

things is that they weren't there when the

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managers died or got killed.

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So they weren't in town.

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It's kind of a funny take off on that.

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you want to talk a little bit more about

the mockumentary format and kind of how it

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was done?

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it kind of reminded me a little bit of CB4

too.

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With its, you know, over the top parody

of, gangster rap and also the way it was

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formatted, how to follow the band around

and kind of sort of where their beginnings

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were, how they rose up.

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But yeah, it was like when I first saw it,

I was like, you sound like a mockumentary

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of a mockumentary.

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Yeah.

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Got different layers.

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Yeah.

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I did think that the bit about all the

managers getting shot and killed, there

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was at least five or more and they were

all white and they were making some

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comments about, you know, we got to

protect the brothers.

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And they end up.

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couple were like, were Black and they

couldn't have that anymore.

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So they started having white managers as

like, cannon fodder.

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And then they ended up beating up the one

record company guy, John Liggert, I think

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was his name.

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It was just chaotic.

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They had a beef with a rival crew called

the Jam Boys.

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And in the midst of that scene, their

manager, Freisch, or Freisch, got killed

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with like a ricochet gunshot, I think.

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Yeah.

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So it was silly.

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They did a spoof also on the whole racial

profiling aspect, which is done in a lot

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of these movies, which they made a joke

out of it where Scott's like, take your

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right hand, put it over your left hand,

but then twist at this angle and turn

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around.

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And it was kind of ridiculous, but that

was in there.

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And.

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That led into one of the parody songs,

which was F the security guards, which was

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a spoof on like F the police.

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I thought it it kind of funny.

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And also speaking of mockumentary and like

the guy that used to deliver the MTV News,

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Kurt Loder was in this quite a bit too.

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So yeah.

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Yeah, he did a good job.

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I just looked him up.

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Kurt Loder is still around.

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I think he's like in his late seventies.

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70s.

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And he has ties to New Jersey.

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I didn't, I never really looked up his

history.

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He, did a lot of work.

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He grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey in

that area.

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Yeah.

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He went to high school there and he used

to write for like local publications there

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and he got into Rolling Stone.

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And then it was kind of happenstance that

he became a super well -known music

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journalist.

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Yeah.

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So Kurt Loder was, was pretty funny in

that the way when he was interviewing

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these guys and his like.

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straight -laced voice.

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Yeah, one of the few things I liked about

the movie.

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Yeah, Kurt Loder.

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Exactly.

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So I guess that's a good lead into then

the parody songs.

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I mentioned though the one about the

security guards, which was making fun of

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security guards wanting to be real cops.

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And it was F those guys too.

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But there were a handful of these

parodies.

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And I thought that the parody songs

actually were pretty well constructed and

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they were catchy.

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Like I think they did their homework and

they mimicked some of the beats from some

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of the originals.

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They took them directly, I think, some of

them.

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took directly.

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I don't know if they had the authority to

do that, but they did.

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Yeah, they definitely did their homework

when they put these songs together.

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Boogie, you want to talk a little bit

about some of the parody songs, kind of

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what they were mocking and about?

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Yeah, so.

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Yes, they had the song called Grab Your

Stuff, which, well, they had to have a,

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since they comparing themselves somewhat

to NWA, the Grab Your Stuff song was the

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controversial song that was, I guess, in

line with F the Police that NWA put out

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where they were threatened that they could

not perform the song.

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But then they went out on...

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on stage and proceeded to perform it any

way and was arrested.

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There's a Guerillas in the Midst.

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The video shoot for that song had me

cracking up though.

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It was a parody of them trying to get the

choreographer to get them to do some dance

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steps.

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And it kind of reminded me of If It Isn't

Love by New Edition.

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And the choreographer was walking around

with a jockstrap.

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copy similar to

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Larry Blackman from Cameo.

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So that had me cracking up a little bit

too.

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But yeah, so then they had the F the

Security Guards, which we mentioned.

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A Gangster's Life Ain't Fun.

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Come Pet the P word.

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Just A Human Being which was like the PM

Dawn parody, which I'll let you guys kind

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of talk about a little bit too.

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And Granny Said, Kick Yo Ass, which is

kind of like a LL Cool J parody.

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Yeah.

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And there was one more Booty Juice, which

was like a spoof on the booty rap.

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And they hooked up a tap to the booties

and I thought that was over the top and

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ridiculous.

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But yeah, they didn't leave any stone

unturned, I guess, with like who they were

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parodying.

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The Guerillas in the Midst song was a

little bit catchy.

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Some of the songs were catchy.

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The Come Pet the P sounded like you said,

sounded just like C &C Music Factory, like

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Gonna Make You Sweat.

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It was like pretty much the same.

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The one that had me rolling on the floor

laughing a little bit was the PM Dawn

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parody because the big guy, Tone Deaf.

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He went from like thug and then he became

almost reborn and very like Zen like and.

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a Prince Be the Nocturnal in this.

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Yeah, he was he was

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spoofing him directly.

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Exactly.

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Human Formantics was the group, right?

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And then he, I was watching it with the

subtitles on, because I never want to miss

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a lyric or anything like that.

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And it was cracking me up because he was

talking about, we're all, I'm just a human

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being really in this mellow voice.

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And it had the same beat to Set Adrift on

Memory Bliss.

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And it was talking about we all pee

standing or sitting.

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And if you eat too many beans, you know,

you might get diarrhea, but.

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It's okay.

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I'm like, what is this song?

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But it had me cracking up.

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I had to go back and look it up on YouTube

and just chuckle a little bit more.

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So that one, I wasn't expecting that one.

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So it hit a nerve, a funny bone with me.

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DynoWright do you have any more takes on

the parodies songs.

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Yeah, they're okay.

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In general, I didn't really enjoy this

movie that much.

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On paper, it was funny.

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The jokes seemed like they would have been

funny, but then I knew something about the

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execution of it that I was like, huh.

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But the songs were pretty good.

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I mean, they did do a good job of

parodying the songs.

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I think there was something about the

song, even those, like they sort of

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like...

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did what you might expect in parodying

these songs, even though they sort of went

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over the top too.

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So they were a means to the end for me.

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It's like, good, we're not watching the

rest of this mockumentary.

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We're just watching a music video.

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The film itself was constructed in these

pieces.

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And it was just another way to get further

along in the run time.

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OK, we're going to do this thing and

they're going to spoof something, which on

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the surface sounds like a good idea.

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But I thought I'd laugh more and I didn't.

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So there we are.

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literally the PM Dawn was the only one I

really laughed at.

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Some of them were overdone.

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The LL Cool J parody was interesting

because it was like they had a beef now.

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It was like Tasty Taste had a beef with

Ice Cold and like he's literally like

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chiseling a big block of ice and it's in

black and white just like the Mama Said

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Knock You Out video.

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So I was like, okay, I get it.

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It's kind of funny.

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like a on the nose a lot and I thought,

you know, something like this, it didn't

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have to go so obvious, even though

sometimes it went over the top.

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So, yeah, I think that was one of my

gripes.

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Right, right.

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I think that Booty Juice video was like a

parody of MC Hammer's Pumps and a Bump

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video.

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As if it needed more parodying.

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you're right.

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I remember Hammer getting parodied on like

In Living Color and yeah, and Vanilla Ice

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getting parodied there and they did some

good parodies on that show back in the

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day.

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Mm -hmm.

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I think that's what I think that's what

like having seen CB4 and having seen Don't

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Drink Your Juice in the Hood Like this was

like the third place one and I'm like,

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yeah, you know, I've seen this kind of

idea already Even though this came out

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before I think before those other two,

right?

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Yeah, this is 92 or three So yeah, like

well, I've seen this idea already and I

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didn't need to see it in this one

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I mean, there's a reason that this one

doesn't have that cachet as those other

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ones.

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people loved it.

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I mean, maybe I might have loved this if I

had seen this first and like when it came

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out, I probably would have liked it more

as a younger man.

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But now I...

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Yeah, exactly.

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That's what I was thinking too.

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I was like, had I seen this when it first

came out, I would have probably been

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falling off the chair.

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Because I could see exactly what they were

referring to.

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But I was just like, all right.

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to compete with Chris Rock in CB4 and the

Wayans Brothers in Don't Drink Your Juice

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in The Hood.

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That's tough competition.

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I mean, Rusty Cundieff's done a lot of

good stuff after this.

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So it's not like he's not funny, but I

don't know, it didn't land with me.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Good point.

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So that being said, like, I thought there

was a few side -splittingly funny moments.

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The one PM Dawn, I won't rehash that

again, but that really got me laughing.

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The other one that I thought was funny is

the book, the FYM book, like F Y 'all Mo

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Fos.

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And he was just like, it was funny.

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It was a funny concept.

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And I think, you know, I've seen other

books,

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out there along those same lines that

people have produced.

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You walk through Barnes and Noble or

something, or you see these books and it's

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a similar theme.

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And I'm like, you know what, actually I'm

like, I'm like, buy the book.

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You know, you have a bad day.

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And it's like, F you all mofos.

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The other thing is like the DJ scratching,

they went over to the top and you know, he

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was scratching with his butt, his foot,

other body parts.

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And then the kids watching the Jam Boys

and NWH beef in the school and the kids...

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Hehehe.

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It gets out of control.

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Yeah.

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That was a good idea that landed with me.

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Yeah, and then the baby had a beeper on

his little hat.

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I thought that was funny at one point.

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part was, I think that was pretty

inspired.

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I didn't laugh like that much, but I

laughed some.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Any other moments hit either of you guys?

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Like, strike you as funny.

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You mentioned it, that DJ demo scene had

me, I mean, as a DJ, that had me, I was

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dying.

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That part had me laughing.

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Those two hit like, okay, okay.

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He's going, okay.

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Yeah, that part had me laughing.

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And there was another part, when they were

driving and the cops pulled them over, and

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And there was another part, when they were

driving and the cops pulled them over, and

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then one guy, the cop says,

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I got a lot of coffee and donuts in me, so

don't push me.

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I was like, what?

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I don't know why.

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It was just something about that line that

had me cracking up.

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Like, I laughed for about five minutes.

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I'm like, why am I laughing so hard?

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But yeah, and then that Jam Boys and, you

know, NWH's beef with the kids around.

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That was funny, how everybody just started

running out of the room.

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What?

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man.

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that escalated pretty quickly in front of

the kids.

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All in all, the last takeaway is it's

debatable whether the movie holds up.

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So Dyno Wright, you already mentioned that

this wasn't your favorite and you gave a

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couple of reasons.

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We've seen other parodies that have done a

much better job, but any other points to

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that effect?

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yeah, you know, there's sort of the

standard like, okay, this movie's from a

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certain time period.

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And then that time period, there was

racism and homophobia and misogyny.

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But that was almost like beside the point,

like that was like part of the deal.

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if you're spoofing gangsta rap, then that

was a lot of the themes that were in it.

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And so whether this makes this movie,

still good, many years later, 30 years

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later.

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I'm not sure.

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I really wasn't sure what the point of the

movie was, even though you go through this

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story arc of such as it is, like they come

up, they have a lot of success, and then

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they come down.

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I don't know, does money change

everything?

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Is that sort of the point?

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I think I go back to my original point

where CB4 and Don't Drink Your Juice in

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the Hood were...

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a little better executed and probably more

worth your time than going back to this

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one.

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But not to say that Rusty Cundieff isn't

worth seeing.

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He went on to do Chappelle's show, like a

lot of episodes of Chappelle's show, and

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those are some of the most brilliant

comedy that there is.

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valid points.

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Boogie, how about for you about this movie

holding up?

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Any words on that?

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I mean, I remember when we decided to

watch this movie in the back of my head, I

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remember when the movie came out, and I'm

like, why didn't I watch it when it came

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out?

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I don't know, I think it was something

about it that looked a little too silly

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for me at the time, which is really weird

because I really enjoy comedies.

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I do think that...

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Had I watched it back then, I probably

would have enjoyed it a little bit more

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than watching it as, you know, as I

approached, you know, 50 watching it.

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And I was like, okay, it's, yeah, it's

not, it's not.

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Like Dyno Wright said, the execution

compared to like CB4 and, you know, Don't

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Drink Your Juice, you know, and other

parodies that have been done since then.

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I don't think it necessarily holds up as

well.

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But like I was, I was trying to see if

maybe it was just me.

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So I went on, I was looking up other

people's reviews of it.

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And like Dyno Wright said, there's people

out there that actually absolutely love

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it.

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They think it's the funniest movie ever

made.

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I'm like, wow.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So I mean, in some people's minds, I guess

it does hold up.

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Will I watch it again?

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I probably will watch it again because I

really want to see if I missed these other

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points and other perspectives.

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Like we were talking with Chuck D said, if

you want to be an expert, you got to see

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all of the perspectives, not just

something that you enjoy.

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You got to try to dip in and see other

people's views and see what's out there.

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So.

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With that in mind, I'll watch it again

just to make sure that what I'm feeling at

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the moment is not incorrect.

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Or if I'm just gonna be like, all right,

you know what?

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Yeah, I was right.

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I probably shouldn't have watched it

again.

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There were a couple things I liked.

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And they were more like the subtle jokes

that you'd sort of, they're sort of right

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there, but they don't make a big deal out

of them.

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I thought, actually thought they were more

clever.

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The one was during the climactic standoff

scene at the end, when Ice Cold pulled his

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gun out, there's a condom on it.

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I'll say that, that was good.

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And then when they're in the record store

and they talk about whether you get your

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own divider.

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And so this is so anachronistic.

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Yeah.

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But when you get your own divider, that

means you've made it.

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And you're not in the generic like end

section in the back where the records or

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the CDs are.

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I thought, you know, that that rings true.

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And I think a lot of things like even

though they were like exaggerated

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parodies, like it didn't really ring true.

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And I think in CB4 and Don't Drink Your

Juice in the Hood, they did ring true.

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And I think that's why they worked better

than this.

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And so, yeah, I feel like that's.

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why it didn't work for me and maybe why it

may not hold up now if someone hasn't seen

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it already and already locked in on this.

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So yeah.

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Yeah, I could see this film having sort of

a cult following.

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And I think to your point earlier,

DynoWright It's like, if you had seen it

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at the time and you're like, this is my

movie.

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Like this made me laugh right there in the

moment.

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Then I could see it.

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It actually had a decent Rotten Tomatoes

audience score.

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And even Roger Ebert, when he had reviewed

it, gave him, gave it like three stars.

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Yeah, I thought so.

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So yeah, I mean, I was impressed that it

was Rusty Cundieff who didn't have a big

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resume back then.

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put it all together.

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it did have that ridiculous, it had a

funny disclaimer in the beginning, which

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kind of set the tone.

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It was like, we're going to use words like

booty hoe and this and that.

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And they repeated it a few times.

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And yeah, I mean, that was it.

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It was like, they're not trying to

accomplish much other than have a good

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time and kind of poke fun at the hip hop

genre and culture at the time.

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I guess they didn't try to do too much and

I don't think they.

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could accomplish all that much.

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Yeah, it's something to look at.

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I remember in passing one of our events

that we went to, Cap Cee mentioned, our

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friend Cap Cee, the other DJ that we know,

had said, yeah Fear of a Black Hat, that's

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a hip hop movie, right?

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And he was like, yeah, that's definitely a

hip hop movie.

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And I think he laughed.

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He thought that was funny.

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So yeah, I mean, didn't win an award.

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Not that it's going to win an award.

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But.

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Yeah.

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I got a chuckle out of some of the songs

in a couple of scenes.

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One of the other funny things that I

picked up on was when they were talking

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about riots and they're like, well, you

guys think that we're lazy if we go riot

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and we take furniture stuff, but hey,

moving that end table or that couch and

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finding the matching thing and going back

and forth, that's a lot of work or

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something like that.

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See, there were some good parts.

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There were some good parts.

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The three complexion thing that they did

with Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley and

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Malcolm X, that did make me laugh.

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I felt that was pretty inspired.

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Yeah, definitely had his moments.

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Had its moments.

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But the way it made me feel at the end,

like, cause my son was on the couch while

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I was finishing it up and he was like, was

this good?

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And it's one of those things is like,

would you recommend it to someone of like

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the younger generation?

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I was like, yeah, it was as they say mid,

you know, these guys as the young crowd

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says it's mid.

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So yeah.

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direct them to other work by Rusty

Cundieff.

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exactly.

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Alright, so we're gonna have a tough

decision here with our rating here that we

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typically do.

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So if you guys, hopefully you guys have

given it a little bit of thought.

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On the fence from what I hear in our

commentary, but let's go around and do our

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ratings.

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So Boogie, for fear of a black hat, will

you bring that funky flick back or leave

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it in the vault?

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So I was thinking about the words that I

use and I think that I am going to watch

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it one more time and then put it in the

vault and leave it there.

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always bending the rules and living on the

edge.

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All right.

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All right.

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DynoWright?

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How about you bring the funky flick back

or leave it in the vault?

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I'm going to leave it in the vault.

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And for myself, I will also leave it in

the vault, despite some of those things

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making me laugh, but there's a lot more

comedy out there that I'd rather continue

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to see.

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Gotta draw a line somewhere.

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Too much content out there.

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Too much content, you gotta draw a line.

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It'd be the vault.

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Yeah.

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Fucking got the door open a little bit.

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Then he's gonna close it.

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So it's in a vault.

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So what does that mean?

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I mean, there's a clamoring for it at some

point.

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Maybe it comes out of the vault, but put

aside.

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Hip Hop Movie Club is produced by your

HHMC's JB, Boogie and Dyno Wright.

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Theme music by Boogie.

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Whether you're listening to the podcast or

watching us on YouTube, please give us a

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follow.

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It's a real power up for us.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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And remember, don't hate, consolidate.

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Consolidate your activities, your

organized, consolidate your debt,

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consolidate whatever.

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Consolidate your debt.

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this.

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We're gonna take the good movies and keep

them out and put this one in the vault

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Hehe.

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I sound like Phil Rizzuto promoting a

reverse mortgage or something.

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The money store.

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man.

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I have to say I only learned of Phil

Rizzuto from the money store.

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I didn't realize he was a ball player

until later.

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It wasn't until years later that I

realized he was on the Meatloaf, Paradise

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on a Dashboard Light, that that was him

doing the broadcasting.

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You know that?

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That was Phil Rizzuto.

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Rounding third, he's going for home.

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You know, gotta go all the way tonight.

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That is Phil Rizzuto.

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So I know Yankees fans know that.

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Yeah, see, yeah, exactly.

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Mm -hmm.

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How 'bout that bonus, bonus knowledge for

the people.

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a much younger Phil Rizzuto.

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Like I'm used to listening to him when he

was in his later stages of broadcasting,

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calling people Huckleberries and stuff.

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Holy cow.

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But yeah, the younger voice, that song was

in the, I want to say late seventies,

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probably mid to late seventies.

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But it is his voice.

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There's not too many baseball announcers.

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on hit tracks, so interesting bit of

trivia.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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Right on.

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Hip Hop Movie Club
Harmonizing the rhythm of hip hop with the magic of movies
Upcoming Hip Hop Movie Club events:

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