Hustle & Flow (2005)
A pimp with a song in his heart. Is there any other kind? But can DJay get "Whoop That Trick" onto a demo tape for the world to hear? Today on Hip Hop Movie Club: Hustle & Flow.
Topics discussed:
- Is this story believable?
- DJay's endearing qualities
- Intense scenes
- Favorite characters
- DJay's rapping style
- Terrence Howard's career
- Soundtrack and songs
- Bring this funky flick back or leave it in the vault?
Also check out:
DJ Qualls's famous dance scene in Road Trip
Credits
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Transcript
A pimp with a song in his heart.
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:Is there any other kind?
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:But can DJay get “Whoop That Trick”
onto a demo tape for the world to hear?
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:Today on Hip Hop
Movie Club, Hustle and Flow.
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:Bring it! C’mon!
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:Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club.
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:This is a show for Gen-X hip hop fans
who want to relive the glory days
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:and reconsider classic and modern hip
hop films from a current day perspective.
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:Together, we'll explore some of the larger
societal issues raised in these films.
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:Whether you have seen or not
seen Hustle Flow before,
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:we'll help you decide if you should take
the time to watch it now.
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:Either way, you'll be a smarter
hip hop fan by the end of this episode.
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:The next 30 minutes or so,
you'll get all this and more.
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:We're three
old heads who put their old heads together
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:to vibe on these films for you.
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:I'm DynoWright, podcaster,
filmmaker, long time hip hop fan,
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:and I saw A Tribe Called Quest for
first time at Lollapalooza in:
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:along with the Beastie Boys.
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:I’m JB, eighties and
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:nineties nostalgia Junkie, longtime
hip hop fan.
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:And I like to rap this refrain: It’s the
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:capital S, oh yes, I’m fresh, N double O-P
D-O double G-Y, D-O double G, ya see?
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:I’m BooGie, a DJ, longtime
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:hip hop fan
and one of my favorite emcees is Redman.
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:Yes, Reggie Noble is from my ward
in Newark, New Jersey.
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:In this episode, I'll answer the question:
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:Just how hard is it out there for a pimp?
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:Hustle
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:and Flow is a 2005 musical drama
about a Memphis hustler and pimp
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:whose long held desire to become
a rapper is renewed.
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:His internal struggles are on full display
as he tries to add his flow
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:to his tumultuous hustle game.
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:All right,
let's dig right into Hustle and Flow.
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:First question I have
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:is, do
you guys think this is a believable story?
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:What do you think, BooGie?
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:Yeah, I mean, actually, I think it is.
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:I mean,
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:you have, you know, somebody that's
trying to make it and he's struggling and
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:he's a pimp.
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:And he also sells
sells and sells drugs at the same time.
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:So, I mean, like you said,
you can hustle anything.
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:So I always try to do both of those.
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:I mean, he has an epiphany and he's like,
you know what?
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:I think I can rap.
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:I want to put out some raps.
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:So, you know, I think the
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:being in the right place at the right time
and being able
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:to bring those people together
I think is pretty believable.
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:I mean, like we've seen, you know, drug
dealers turned rappers all the time. And
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:I mean,
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:we've seen, you know, pimps,
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:I guess, in
short turned into rappers as well.
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:I mean, he just happens to do both.
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:So I think that sense is pretty, you know,
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:believable.
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:What do you think, DynoWright?
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:Hey, if successful crack dealers,
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:if crack dealers can be successful
rappers, why not a pimp?
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:Ice-T was one. So there you go.
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:I was going to say
there have been other instances of pimps
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:that become rappers
or the two professions cross paths.
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:Well, people talk about
I don't know how true it is,
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:but they like to think of themselves
as pimps.
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:Too $hort was one as well.
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:I don't know if he was traditionally
really a pimp.
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:There's mixed
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:theories about that or not.
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:But yeah, definitely a believable story.
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:You get your grind and
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:the two can be somewhat related.
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:So we want to.
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:Transferable skills!
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:Yes, exactly.
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:So the main character is DJay,
played by Terrence Howard, who is the pimp
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:who has hustle and adding the flow.
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:What would you say
was his most endearing quality?
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:What made him who he was?
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:BooGie, want to kick us off on that one?
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:Sure. I think.
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:I mean, DJay’s persistent.
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:I mean, the guy knows how to,
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:quote unquote, hustle.
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:He's a survivor.
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:He knows how to go out there
and make money.
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:He knows how to make those ends meet
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:by any means necessary.
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:I mean, he's not necessarily
a ruthless type guy, but
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:he's pretty quick on his feet
when it comes
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:to being resourceful,
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:I mean, he's got a bit of a heart, too.
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:You can see that
he does have a bit of a heart.
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:He's not he's not a ruthless guy,
but he's not, quote unquote, a bad guy.
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:I mean, he does some bad things
when he's not a bad guy.
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:It for me, he he had the gift of gab.
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:He's a leader.
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:He was charismatic.
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:And you could see the
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:the ladies kind of followed
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:what he was.
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:They kind of bought
into what he was trying to do.
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:And as he's trying to build his profession
in the rap game,
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:you know, he he had their loyalty.
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:But again, the gift of gab.
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:I love the little dialog.
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:This was one thing
I really liked throughout the movie, like
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:there are a lot of quotable
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:pieces in here,
like everybody got to have a dream,
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:and even the soliloquy
in the very beginning comparing
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:men to dogs and,
you know, not men, but mankind.
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:And it really, really was catchy.
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:I really liked that.
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:What are your thoughts there, DynoWright?
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:Yeah, he sort of had a heart of gold.
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:He wasn't completely pure of heart,
but I think
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:most of the time
his heart was the right place.
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:And he was really persistent.
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:I mean, you can't really be a successful
rapper without some persistence.
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:So, again, transferable skills.
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:That's true.
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:He was a little bit abusive,
like slightly physical
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:and verbal abusive,
which is difficult to see.
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:But, you know, he - it’s
his upbringing not to justify it,
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:but again,
his heart was in the right place.
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:Yeah, you kind of you're rooting for him
to be successful.
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:You know, you want you want
you want him to
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:put down some good tracks
and make a nice demo
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:and you want to see where
it will take him.
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:And then like even when he's going off
finally at the end
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:to go meet with Skinny Black, you’re
like aright, Please let this kick off
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:the way it's supposed to happen and you’re
rooting for him.
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:Yeah. Yeah.
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:You're rooting for him
to get out of the situation.
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:And yeah.
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:The rap
game is the way to get out for him, Right.
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:Yeah.
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:There were some intense scenes
in this movie.
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:I'll.
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:I'll kick it off with, like, talking about
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:one or so, one or two, and
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:then we can kind of share thoughts
about that one.
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:Like when DJay pimps out Nola
to get the new microphone and they were
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:cash strapped and he kind of sold
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:her body to the
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:audio store guy
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:and she snaps at him as she was humiliated
and she was very upset about it.
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:And she was like kind of had enough.
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:She she
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:she reached her
peak of what she could go through.
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:And that was a pretty intense scene.
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:And he kind of said,
ah, I'll I'll do something for you.
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:I'll get you in front of the microphone
and have you be part of this.
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:That was intense.
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:But what other like intense scenes
were there in this film?
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:Yeah, I mean, just to piggyback off
with that scene
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:with Nola, man,
I mean, he was trying to calm her down.
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:There was one line.
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:There was one line that she said in
that exchange that really stuck with me.
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:She looked at him and she said, D,
I know when you're messing with my head
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:because I let you, because sometimes
my head needs to be messed with.
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:But right now just don't, okay?
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:It's like, wow, it was like that was.
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:Very good.
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:Because she let him know,
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:like, this scene, like you're
not as sharp as you think you are.
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:Yeah. Yeah.
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:You say things.
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:I listen to you,
but I also let things happen.
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:Not because of what you said,
but because in my head,
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:I'm trying to find a way to escape
what’s going on in reality.
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:I was like, Wow. Yeah, He's not so slick.
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:Yeah, you
not as slick as you think you are.
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:Yeah.
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:But yeah, that.
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:But also, there was one scene I really
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:it was.
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:It was very intense.
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:It was when
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:Lex, who was also living in the house
at one time, who was.
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:She was actually working as a stripper,
but she was giving her her money to DJay
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:as her pimp.
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:And there's one part where she heard
the two of them really get into it,
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:and he ends up
putting her out with her son.
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:And I was like, wow.
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:I mean, I thought he was going to,
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:like, kind of change his mind, like, I,
you know, I just want teach you a lesson.
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:But now he really left them out there.
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:And you see
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:Shug and Nola, you know, they kind of
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:they're like very upset
and they're like crying.
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:But, you know, neither one of them,
you know, dared intervene, of course.
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:But you could see the hurt on their faces
as well, because they kind of had like a
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:it was like
they had a symbiotic relationship.
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:Everybody kind of played a part,
you know, when Lex was out, you know,
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:you know, Shug would
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:watch her son and vice versa.
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:Nola would've been,
Nola would chip in here and there.
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:And so they all kind of worked together.
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:And to see Lex get put out was very
was very hard to watch.
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:And I think one of the other scenes
was that
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:that was really intense, was like the end
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:with DJay
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:finally going to meet Skinny Black
and things not working out
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:necessarily
the way that he thought they would
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:and Skinny Black in turn
didn't even listen to his demo.
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:He just kind of chucked it in the toilet.
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:And DJay begins to snap
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:because Skinny Black is a little drunk
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:and he's kind of provoking him
with that drunkenness.
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:But DJay goes all in on him and
just starts beating on her mercilessly.
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:And I was like, Wow, that's yeah.
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:DynoWright, anything?
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:Any other intense scenes that you noted?
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:Well, the, the one we haven't mentioned
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:yet is the actual writing session
that turned into Whoop That Trick.
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:As a musician,
I appreciate the process of creating music
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:and I really appreciated the DIY
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:nature of having a stack of drink holders,
making that the
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:the soundproofing and the pantyhose pop
filter - it actually works. So
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:audio producers out there
with low budgets, get yourself some
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:pantyhose with runs in it.
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:And working out the beat on the MPC,
that's real.
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:Yeah they let the beat build.
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:Yeah that Whoop That track.
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:That was, that was a jam.
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:I mean
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:if you haven't seen this movie
or at least want to see like that scene,
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:look that up on YouTube,
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:how they created that Whoop That Trick,
because you're nodding your head to that.
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:And like, I really pulled you in.
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:I saw I mean, Shug.
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:You mentioned Shug.
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:She was a pregnant woman.
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:She was a great actress.
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:You could see her continual despair
with her pregnancy and the conditions
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:she was living in and trying to break out.
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:She wanted more out of her life.
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:Yeah.
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:And BooGie, you mentioned
the confrontation with Skinny Black
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:when they first when he first meets up
with Skinny Black, played by Ludacris.
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:Ludacris, just looks right
past him, starts talking to other guys
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:and like he doesn't remember him
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:from back in the day
when they used to kind of know each other
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:from growing up at the same area
and listening to the demo tapes.
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:But also, yeah,
he the fit of rage because DJay
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:nearly beats him to death
after he finds his tape in the toilet.
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:And then the climax is, you know,
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:the member of Black's
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:entourage comes in, pulls out his gun,
and then just chaos ensues.
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:He shoots him
and then escapes and etc., etc..
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:Very intense scenes, really well done.
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:Great cinematography.
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:And even that scene with the exchange
between
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:DJay, Skinny Black and Skinny
Black’s entourage as he leaves,
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:that actually
that leads to another intense scene
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:once DJay arrives home
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:and the police
are just waiting at his home for him.
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:And try to place him under arrest.
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:And witnesses from the club are there and
kind of pointing at him, fingering him.
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:And they’re like,
there he goes right there.
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:And as the police are putting him in
cuffs,
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:you see Shug,
you know, pregnant, Shug breaking down
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:and Nola's crying
and trying to figure out what to do and
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:one of one of the Skinny Black’s guys
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:assaults DJay while he's in handcuffs
and everybody's trying to break it
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:up, that was just,
that was tough seeing right there as well.
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:It definitely was.
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:When the cops use handcuffs, what
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:what I like
is that, you know, he's handcuffed.
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:He actually puts Nola
in charge of the music.
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:He's shouting,
you know, you're in charge now.
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:And in fact,
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:DJay, I'm sorry, Nola
is my favorite character besides DJay.
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:And I'll ask you guys that same
who's your favorite character?
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:Because you could tell that
she had a desire for something greater.
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:And it's
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:kind of refreshing to see that she learned
how to hustle from observing DJay.
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:She kind of absorbed it.
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:And when he is imprisoned,
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:she pounded the pavement
and got a song on the hit radio station.
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:So I loved her determination.
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:Even though she didn’t seemingly
have a great education
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:became she became street
smart and persistent, just like DJay.
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:Who is your, BooGie?
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:Who was your favorite character
besides DJay and why?
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:Yeah, I think definitely I have a combo.
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:It's like, I like Shug and Nola
was definitely she was a real one.
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:I mean, as far as like you said,
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:she actually took that she was in charge
as she ran with it.
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:I mean, I love how when Key goes to visit
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:DJay and he's kind of
breaking it down for him as.
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:yo man.
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:And she was so she was she was you know,
he was telling him the story,
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:but kind of breaking it down
and showing a picture as she's
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:getting out of the car,
she's going to the radio station
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:and she's repeating that whole soliloquy,
what dog and man said
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:to the radio DJ, and then she comes out
and she gets in the car.
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:Then like a few minutes later,
she turns, a few minutes later
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:she turns on the radio,
goes to the station,
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:and the DJ’s immediately
putting the song on. I was like, wow.
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:But so yeah, like you said, you know,
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:just the fact that she was able to absorb
it were from her situation
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:so that she could get out of it herself.
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:Because, yeah, I mean, the fact that D.J.
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:makes it big, I mean, yeah,
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:that's a chance for her to use
that as an escape route as well.
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:But I also
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:I love Shug’s character as well.
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:I love the way she was portrayed.
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:I mean, she's here you have, you know,
because she's pregnant.
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:You could tell that she was also
one of DJay’s, prostitutes.
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:And they hint at the fact
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:a couple times that she doesn't even know
who the baby's father is.
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:But you could also tell that her and DJay
had a connection at some point.
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:There's
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:definitely a real connection
between the two of them.
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:And you see that come out in the end
as DJay is getting ready to go off
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:to meet Skinny Black immediately
rushes back in and he,
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:he kisses her and you could tell that
there's real love and affection.
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:But she,
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:I love the way
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:when they sing It's
hard out there for a pimp,
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:I love the way
she's trying to sing the chorus.
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:And he's like,
They tell him to push it out,
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:push it, push it, get it out, get it out.
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:And finally
she throws him some soul on it.
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:It finally gets it out and her face
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:from when they finally play it back.
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:You see how her face just lights up.
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:She's like,
oh my God, that's me. That's me.
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:I can't believe that's the way I sound.
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:And then you know how
she was even appreciative.
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:Like at the end she said, You know,
I really appreciate, appreciate,
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:you know, you putting me on all your songs
and letting me sing like that,
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:Like you didn't have to,
but I really appreciate it.
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:But it was something
it was something endearing
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:about her character
that I just really, really loved.
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:So yeah, I would definitely say
those those two.
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:Played by the great Taraji P Henson.
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:Yes, Yes.
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:DynoWright, Your favorite character
besides DJay?
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:Besides DJay, I enjoyed Shelby.
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:Of course, the musician in me was like,
Yeah, I'm down with the musician.
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:DJ Qualls is so good as Garth
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:in Supernatural,
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:one of the one of the sort of side
character
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:demon hunters.
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:But I enjoyed
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:DJ Qualls in this Shelby.
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:DJ Qualls, like a skinny, nerdy
looking type fella,
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:and he's got the skills deejaying.
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:I remember him vividly from the movie
Road Trip, which was one of those,
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:I think, nineties comedies,
just goofball comedies.
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:And ironically, talking about hip
hop, we’re Hip Hop Movie Club.
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:There was a
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:remember,
there's a memorable scene in that when he
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:starts dancing
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:to “It's Tricky” - so if you looked
that up, look up, “It's Tricky.
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:DJ Qualls” So
maybe we could put that in the show notes.
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:It's pretty funny, his little skinny white
dude like stick skinny, like,
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:like 90 pounds soaking wet and
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:he gets some
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:some street cred, so to speak, from
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:busting out to It's Tricky by Run-D.M.C.
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:Yeah I like that in that movie had
When they were all leaving the house
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:he's giving dap to everybody.
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:Everybody knew him on the way out.
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:Well.
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:Like the skinniest dude.
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:Everybody knew him.
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:I liked him in that.
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:And I also liked them in The New Guy too,
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:that was a wacky movie.
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:But he was funny in that.
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:In Hustle & Flow,
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:it was funny when they were like
smoking a joint or something.
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:And he he got
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:he was cracking me up with the dialog
between these guys was was
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:pretty funny in this movie.
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:He got real deep.
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:Yeah yeah.
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:I'm sorry.
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:I don't remember the exact quotes,
but it was.
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:It was.
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:It was worth watching.
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:That was funny.
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:We haven’t touched on
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:Key, the character Key,
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:played by Anthony Anderson,
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:who's been in a million, a million things.
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:So he was kind of like a straight edge
guide.
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:His life on the straight and narrow
and but he had gone to school with DJay.,
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:but he was all about
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:building up a studio, and they hooked up.
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:So he was trying to balance,
you know, kind of
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:navigating
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:his time in the recording studio,
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:having to deal with DJay
and the prostitutes,
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:and just to find out what his wife,
Yvette, was really straight edge.
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:That was an interesting dynamic.
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:She wasn't happy at all about that.
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:The hanging out of the house house
with a bunch of prostitutes.
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:I mean, justifiably so.
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:I mean, granted, he wasn't
he wasn't even tempted in the least bit.
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:He was all about just doing the music.
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:It was all optics.
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:Optics weren't working in his favor,
Right.
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:Yeah.
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:There was a funny quote that I recorded
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:from Key's dialogue.
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:Anthony Anderson's
character said There's two types of people
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:those that talk the talk
and those that walk the walk.
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:People who walk the walk sometimes talk.
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:The talk, but most times they don't
talk at all because they walk in.
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:Now, people who talk the talk,
when it comes
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:time for them to walk the walk,
you know what they do? They talk.
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:They talk. People like me to walk, walk.
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:I was just like, What?
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:My head was spinning,
but it made a lot of sense.
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:It did eventually make sense.
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:It did make sense.
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:Yeah.
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:I was cracking up with that.
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:So back to Nola's character.
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:She's played by Taryn Manning.
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:Where have we seen her before?
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:Boogie You recall?
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:Yeah, I remember her.
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:She was B-Rabbit’s ex-girlfriend
in 8 Mile.
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:Janine Yeah.
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:It was funny because I looked at her
and I said,
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:Wait a minute, I know her from somewhere
and I couldn't put my finger on it.
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:And then my mom was like yeah,
she was in 8 Mile.
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:I was like oh yeah!
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:There we go.
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:Yeah.
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:Researching,
she's been in a lot of things.
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:She was in Orange is the New Black,
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:which was a popular Netflix series
for many years.
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:Now DJay’s rapping style.
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:Like I said, he was he was good.
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:Those tracks
that he put out really catchy.
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:Whose style do you think he was most
similar to?
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:Is there another rapper out there
that kind of sounds like this?
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:I'm getting this type of vibe from.
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:What do you guys think?
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:You know, I was I was going
I kept going back and forth to him
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:that when I was trying to figure out
who kind of reminded me of,
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:I think with the like, walk that through
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:the chorus, it was kind of like
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:Lil John and the Eastside Boyz,
almost the chorus.
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:I think, his flow
kind of reminded me a little bit of T.I.
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:Little bit Too $hort, definitely.
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:I mean, I would never could put it compare
to anyone in in the Northeast or
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:so there was the music as the typical
Southern drawl, something maybe
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:Slim Thug, maybe a little too.
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:I listed Too $hort
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:as one that I compared him to,
or maybe a little bit of Master P.
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:And then he had a little bit of that
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:gruff
sounds like DMX, not to that extreme,
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:but the way he came out with that Whoop
That Trick, it was kind of
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:like the the cadence of it
maybe a little bit.
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:Yeah, because it's in your face. Yeah.
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:So I was thinking like a combination
like DMX, Master P and Too $hort.
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:DynoWright, any other comparisons?
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:I probably, I agree
totally on the Southern rapper thing.
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:I think it was definitely
some kind of Southern rapper
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:I thought there was a little bit
of Ludacris in it.
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:Not much.
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:And like, like one like
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:whiff
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:of Tupac was not like the subject
matter was not the same.
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:But I think there was something
in the lyrical delivery.
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:There's something in there.
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:I was like,
I thought, I've heard this in Tupac maybe.
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that there's a Southern at least
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:Yeah, it makes sense.
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:Memphis is where it takes place.
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:And we were joking before.
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:The way Terrence Howard says “man”. Man,
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:“Stop playing man.” Stop playing man.
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:It was great.
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:Every time he would say that, I was just
chuckling to myself.
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:Terrence Howard
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:has had an interesting career.
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:One of his first roles was in Dead
Presidents,
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:which we haven't even reviewed yet.
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:He was in Mr.
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:he was the Colonel James Rhodes
in the first
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:of the newer Iron Man movies
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:from 2008 in the MCU.
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:What were some of the other highlights
from Terrence Howard's career
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on some of these roles?
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:Yeah, I mean,
I think he's a very versatile actor.
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:I mean, the only thing that drives me
crazy is with his.
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:the man.
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:He can’t shake it.
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:Other than that,
I think he's he's a very good actor.
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:I mean, like, I love him in the Best Man
movie franchise.
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:Best Man, Best Man Holiday,
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Man final chapters.
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:He is a very great actor.
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:I mean, he gives you
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:He shows a loyalty in those as well.
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:And I think another role that I loved him
in also
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:was Pride.
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:I can't remember the characters, but Pride
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:is a story of
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:They start off at one of the
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:recreation centers
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:that they were supposed to close down,
but he ends up
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:taking to some of the local kids
in the area and creating a swim team,
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:and they actually go out and compete
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:And it's a very good movie.
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:And I think that his portrayal in that
movie was excellent.
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:That's one of my favorite movies.
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:I watched that
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:But yeah, I think he's a good actor.
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:He's great.
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:I mean, I don't know all the ins and outs
of what happened with him.
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:With the MCU deal playing Rhodey Rhodes
in the Iron Man and also the recurring
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:yeah, I was that was a sucky move.
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:Whatever happened or because he could have
he could have
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:I understand it was a money problem.
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:Wanted more money.
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:Yeah we we discussed that
my son is huge in the MCU
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:and we're always like, man,
this could have been Terrence Howard,
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:but he was replaced by Don
Cheadle in the sequels for Iron
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:Man and Don Cheadle is great actor
in his own right.
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:yeah.
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:Rhodey and then War Machine and
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:so many other roles.
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:But yeah, it's interesting how that didn't
pan out for Terrence Howard,
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:but yet money is at the root of a lot of,
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:you know, arguments or discussions here.
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:But and we can't forget
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:they spent all that time reunited
with Taraji P
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:Henson in Empire, which I've never seen,
but I understand it's great.
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:Yeah. So.
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:Yeah. Get Rich or Die
Tryin’. Five years, five seasons.
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:Yes he is.
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:We're going to review it next.
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:That’s next, yep.
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:Terrence
Howard was nominated for the Academy Award
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:for best actor for his role as DJay.
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:And do you remember
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:“It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp” won
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:the award for
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:one of the awards for Best Song.
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:Best Original song.
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:Original song, Yeah.
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:By Three 6 Mafia, right?
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:Is that it?
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:So ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding.
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:So let's talk about, let’s
talk about the soundtrack a little bit.
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:The songs by Terrence Howard as
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:DJay are on here, which is great.
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:Hard out here for a pimp.
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:Who else appears on the soundtrack?
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:Juvenile, E-40, 8Ball,
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:T.I. that you mentioned, yep.
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:Lil Scrappy.
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:Yep. Webbie, Lil Boosie.
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:Yeah.
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:He had the We in Charge skit.
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:And the bum guys get.
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:So Arnel was like the restaurant's
slash club owner played by Isaac Hayes.
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:The late Isaac Hayes. Yeah.
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:It's always good to see him on film.
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:Absolutely. Yeah.
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:True legend in the game.
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:For sure. Yeah.
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:Yeah. Who else?
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:So we mentioned Ludacris plays
Skinny Black.
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:I just love the name Skinny Black is like
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:you two adjectives to describe this guy.
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:He’s skinny and he's black.
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:Done. Done!
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:And does this precede the Fast
and the Furious franchise?
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:I'm not sure, but this was 2005.
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:I don't know when that started, but.
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:Nah, he was in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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:Okay. So he was in that one at least.
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:Yeah. Yeah.
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:So yeah, 2 Fast
Furious was:
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:I mean it's not the
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:we're up to what now 56 of these
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:Fast and Furious movies?
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:There’s at least ten.
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:Got in on the ground floor. Yeah
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:I think the one
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:I love this song
that I love though on this track was
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:was also done by DJay
was that the Hustle and Flow song?
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:I like that one
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:traffic of the chorus,
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:but should sing the chorus
on that one as well.
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:When he had a best one where he had
Nola kissed the mike
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:before he performed it with Yvette,
came over with the sandwiches.
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:Yes. That song.
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:I love that song too. It’s mellow.
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:I could, I could cruise in that,
listening to that song.
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:Yeah.
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:Sadly, Isaac
Hayes died a few years after this film.
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:This film was from 2005 He died in 2008.
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:Yeah.
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:At age 65.
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:Didn't realize he was gone that long.
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:Yeah,
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:he was the chef on South Park too.
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:That's been a resurgence.
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:There was, as I say,
he did a storied career in
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:music and film and
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:he brought it back there.
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:Yeah one of the greats right there.
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:You guys want to go round do ourratings
for the film Hustle and Flow?
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:All right, Boogie,
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:bring that funky flick back
(Bring that funky flick back)
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:or leave it in the vault.
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:Bring that funky flick back.
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:DynoWright?
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:Bring that funky flick back.
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:Myself.
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:Whoop That Trick.
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:I mean, bring that funky flick back.
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:This is very entertaining.
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:Musical.
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:It had
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:drama,
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:intensity, violence, music, hip hop.
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:It's checked
all the boxes you bring it back.
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:It's one you should see.
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:This is definitely worth watching.
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:Yeah,
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:this probably was rated
well on Rotten Tomatoes.
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:Let's see 82%
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:tomatometer and 83% audience score.
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:A lot of times
those two don't really jive.
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:Sometimes audience likes it much more than
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:the critics or vice versa.
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:But yeah, this is loved by many.
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:We're all in agreement.
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:That's right. It's not a perfect film,
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:but it's definitely enjoyable,
definitely entertaining.
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:That'll give you all of the emotions.
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:And this was John Singleton, right?
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:He was the producer.
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:He produced it.
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:Okay. He's one of them. Let’s see.
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:Craig Brewer.
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:Brewer That's that's
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:written and directed by Craig Brewer.
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:Bring it!
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:C’mon!
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