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N.W.A.'s Impact on the Game: From Snoop to Eminem to 50 to Kendrick
Episode 137
Ahead of our 10th anniversary screening of Straight Outta Compton, we examine The World's Most Dangerous Group's family tree, perhaps the most powerf…
1 year ago
Idlewild: The OutKast movie everyone slept on
Episode 136
Does Idlewild got that swing, or ain't got that swing?
Set in Prohibition-era Georgia, 1930s, Idlewild portrays the story of two childhood friends goi…
1 year ago
Beyond the Big Four: More Rappers Who Conquered Hollywood
Episode 135
We have spoken about our Mount Rushmore of rappers turned actors: Will Smith, Queen Latifah, Tupac Shakur, and Ice Cube. Who is in the next tier? Lis…
1 year ago
How Bulworth Told It Like It Is: Real Talk from a Rapping Senator?!
Episode 134
Warren Beatty's 1998 political satire Bulworth gave us an audacious experiment: a white politician who ditches his teleprompter for freestyle flows a…
1 year ago
Squeeze Play or Snake Oil? (Anaconda review)
Episode 133
A documentary film crew ventures into the Amazon rainforest and gets hoodwinked into helping a mysterious snake hunter. A deadly encounter with The P…
1 year, 1 month ago
Tales from the Hood: A Dead Seriously Good Film
Episode 132
Don't be scuuuurrrred, the Halloween season is near! We dove into the 1995 horror anthology movie Tales from the Hood.
Tales from the Hood is a horror…
1 year, 1 month ago
Worst of the Worlds (War of the Worlds review)
Episode 131
If you're a big hip hop fan, you might be considering watching Ice Cube's new disaster flick, War of the Worlds. We watched it so you don't have to. …
1 year, 1 month ago
Friday After Next: Enter Katt Williams (encore)
Episode 130
Superstar comedian Katt Williams made his film debut in the third installment of the Friday series, 2002's Friday After Next. "Money Mike" stole scen…
1 year, 2 months ago
Judgment Night: Significant Soundtrack, Forgettable Film
Episode 129
Today we answer this question about the 1993 action crime thriller Judgment Night: why was the soundtrack so much more important than the film itself…
1 year, 2 months ago
Herb + Harvard + Hijinx = How High (encore)
Episode 128
In honor of back to school season being upon us, here is an encore presentation of our original episode on How High starring Redman and Method Man.
W…
1 year, 2 months ago