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Grad student Adam is writing a thesis on the N-word.

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In an attempt to do good research, he goes to rap battles to observe.

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Soon he's no longer an observer, but a newcomer, battle rapper with bars of his own.

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Quickly he makes a name for himself and his stakes get higher with each line.

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And in the heat of battle, he has some decisions to make about his love, his friends, and even his life.

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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club.

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This is the show for Gen X hip hop fans who want to relive the glory days 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 or have not seen Bodied before, 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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In the next 30 minutes or so, you'll get all this and more.

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I'm DynoWright.

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podcaster, filmmaker, long time hip hop fan, and I recommend reading Dilla Time,

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the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip hop producer who reinvented rhythm by Dan Chernas.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long time hip hop fan,

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and my top song for Spotify Wrapped 2023 was California Love, by 2Pac.

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I'm Boogie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan, and I once handled hospitality for X to the Z

Xzibit,

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Defari and their entourage.

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In this episode we'll answer the question, is Bodied an underrated film?

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Bodied is a 2017 battle rap drama featuring Adam, a graduate student, who slowly immerses himself

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in the world of competitive rap battling while working on his graduate thesis on

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the subject.

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All right, so Bodied, which was produced by Eminem.

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been out there for a few years, but I don't think it got a lot of critical acclaim or attention.

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Let's get into it.

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Would you say that this is a believable story and why or why not?

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Boogie?

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I'm on the fence with this one because some aspects of it seem pretty believable.

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I mean, you can look at some of the current artists that are notoriously on the airwaves right now and they're very gimmicky

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and they're also getting co-signed by some of our

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quote unquote hip hop legends.

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So and also this is also the age of things going viral.

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So all it takes is one person to kind of have a camera.

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a video of some of these battles and it goes on the internet and it takes off.

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With that said, I think that some of the storyline as far as Adam coming up, I didn't really find it too believable.

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I mean, yeah, he was able to compose bars on a fly because of his background with the slam poetry that he was doing, but.

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I think that some of the conversations that happened during the movie would have

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definitely not went the way they did, for instance,

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when they were at Megaton's house and

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Che had relations with Megaton's girlfriend.

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And Behn and Megaton, what came to a consensus that it was gonna be squashed by battling.

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and Adam just decided to kind of quote, almost like he tried to punk Megaton

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in his home, like that whole conversation, like, oh, this is how you're gonna handle it.

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You know, I thought you guys were from the streets.

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I'm like, yeah, man, that wouldn't have ended the way it did in real life.

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The movie would have, roll end credits when it did.

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guy got some heavy artillery on him And he's gonna egg him on saying that's all you got.

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That's all you got.

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Man, he's been smoked

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would have been end credits right there.

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movie would have been

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Yeah, I was scratching my head like, why is he doing that?

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But I was just thinking like a believable story about his on the come up.

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Like, I think it could happen because,

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you know, anybody you can put your mind to it and put in the work, put in the work, you know, and work your way up, it could happen.

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He could become a rapper because

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we'll get into it later, but I think there's similarities to Eminem's real story that we saw on 8 Mile,

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especially when you see that very end, the

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last scene.

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I think what Eminem was doing, it was kind of like...

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channeling, you know, B-Rabbit a little bit with Adam's character

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because he was in a foreign territory predominantly, you know, Black and Latino dominate this underworld of battle rap very

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rare to see like a nerdy looking white guy Somebody doing his thesis

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so he he's got the odds are stacked against him

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and he could easily be

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bullied, but if he just sticks with it, sticks with it, kind of,

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befriends Behn along the way, gets a little bit of that credibility.

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Hey yo, this kid's legit, this kid's legit.

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And, you know, you got to get that, you know, endorsement or mentor.

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And then, you know, I could see it happening.

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What do you think, DynoWright?

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I thought it was believable enough.

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I was not convinced of Adam's motivations throughout the film, so I didn't know what to make of him.

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And so he didn't know what he wanted.

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He was always vacillating between two worlds, and he couldn't make a decision about it.

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And so there were some aspects that weren't

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Totally believable, but yeah, I think it was believable enough.

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I mean, not to psychoanalyze,

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but I think that his relationship with his father, his father was just very standoffish.

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And even when he wanted a place to stay, he said, no, you couldn't stay with me.

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And he didn't like that he was going down this road.

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And he just kind of just shunned his own son.

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And so he didn't, I think he wanted some of that respect and admiration that he was lacking.

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And like when you go to a rap battle and you have a crowd cheering you on

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and you do a good thing and you're beloved, I mean, that's kind of like addicting.

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It's like a drug and yeah, and it gets with head exactly.

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Right.

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So yeah, so that's true.

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He took it to another level.

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Let's talk a little bit about the rap battles.

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Like, did you guys enjoy the creativity of the lyrics?

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Do you have any favorite lines?

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We'll talk about that.

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And then when we can talk about the origins of rap battle, like

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where does rap battle get its start from?

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And I'm like, yeah, where's the beat at?

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for a lot of people to quote, unquote freestyle or battle

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not to compare the two, but 8 Mile they actually were freestyling over

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beats. And if you couldn't keep up with the beat, you know,

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But I mean, I did enjoy it because I mean, I'm a fan of snapping, cracking, dissing, dozens.

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about the Asian culture.

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afterwards he was like, yo man that was good, that was good

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kind of that's what you sign up for.

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I think it was maybe Megaton when he was battling Adam.

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He had lyrics, something like, you look like Justin Bieber

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in that effin muscle t-shirt, you're effin fan of Hanson, Marilyn Manson's

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guts, grandson.

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You could see the influence of Eminem, it's something that he would say.

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Yeah, and I think Adam was like, I'll grab Che and let him

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bust you to the chopper jams on your falafel stand from his taco van.

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It's like...

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Yeah, or another then, and another then.

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And that then, and.

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Yep, definitely can pick up Eminem’s flow over there.

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It was entertaining for sure.

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And they all had their own style.

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So, rap battles, as you're talking about it, and I think,

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DynoWright, you may have mentioned this in a previous episode, the dozens.

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The origin of a lot of battling.

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And also it could be how roasts came about, how people get roasted,

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and kind of a derivative also about, So, I mean, I did some research upon the dozens.

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I mean, I did some research upon the

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dozens. It's a game where people just insult each other until one of them gives

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up. a game where people just insult each other until one of them gives

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and it is common in African-American communities.

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And there's like an audience and it kind of like that it's really hype.

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And I think you can see a direct correlation between the dozens and rap battling.

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You guys have any other?

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Yeah, you agree with that?

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Well, yeah.

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Yeah, I think the only thing like,

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yeah, it's basically they're just, they're playing the dozens, but they're rhyming.

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They're making the insults rhyme with one another.

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But it's definitely the same exact format.

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Cause I remember, I said, I grew up with it.

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So in all through elementary school,

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So in all through elementary school, I think it, yeah, all through elementary school, like it would be the same thing.

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Like outside at lunchtime, we'd have two people going at it with a crowd around them.

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And it's just.

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Boom, one person boom, boom, boom.

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one person boom, boom, boom.

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Nothing was off limits.

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was off

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limits. And it's just insult after

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insult. Until like you said, until one person gives

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Well, that's what you see in the movie too.

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I mean, you see Megaton twice he punched people, right?

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Including Adam towards the end.

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And it's like, man, that's not right.

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You should, you got to restrain yourself, but you get, you take it so personal, personally, that it's hard not to restrain.

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It's hard to restrain yourself and not get physical.

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people all the time to this day, like

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because of having to do, because of growing up doing it, like if somebody insults me,

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I can always have a quick response, whether or not

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I choose to say it.

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Like now I've learned as an adult to not

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say everything that pops to my head because,

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you know, you get, you know, yourself in situations that you don't need to be in.

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You know, so, but yeah, this is definitely like along those lines and I can definitely see

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the straight correlation and there's no zigzag.

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It's like a direct straight line to it.

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I guess, tangent of the dozens is like the your mama jokes that were so popular like,

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as part of it too, is insulting someone's mother.

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Mm-hmm, the mama jokes was definitely part of it.

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Mm-hmm.

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I remember they had those books that came out, the Yer Mama Jokes, they were hilarious.

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I remember seeing this.

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Like, like, like, your mom is so short, she sits on the curb and her legs swing.

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So funny.

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so dumb.

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She got fired out of the M&M factory for trying to put him in alphabetical order.

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Your momma’s so dumb she thought a quarterback was a refund.

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Oh man.

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Your mom’s so fat when she sits around the house, she sits around the house.

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Yeah, when she steps on the scale, it says to be continued.

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So, you know, we're hip hop podcast here, Hip Hop Movie Club,

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remember the Pharcyde had the song, the Ya Mama song, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And when we were back in college, when we were back in college, DynoWright, remember the one that always cracked us up was

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your mom's got a glass eye with the fish in it.

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We should just, that's, that's, that's a recurring verse or piece of that song.

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an often said line.

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It was well-worn.

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Yeah, that's hilarious.

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So in this film, there were a lot of different rap battle competitors.

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We could talk a little bit about a few of them.

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I mean, Behn Grym is one of the first that we see, and he's one of the main protagonists, besides Adam.

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Adam's, I guess, the main protagonist, but Behn is like a legend.

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He's in the game for a long time and he's well respected.

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And the name Ben Grimm is The Thing in the comics.

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Fantastic Four.

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Yeah, that's such a hot name though.

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When I saw it, I was like, wow, that's a dope name, Behn Grym.

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I like that.

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Yeah they just spelled it differently maybe

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I don’t know it was through copyright

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maybe it was copyrighted

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it was like B-E-H-N and then G-R-Y-M.

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And then I alluded to the Korean rapper, his name was Prospek.

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And it was funny because he worked at a sushi restaurant.

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He's like, you're not Japanese, you're Korean.

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He's like you don't even know the difference between us.

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Prospek.

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and

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Remember his, the sensei got offended by some of the rap and he just knocked the guy out.

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It was some martial arts.

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is...

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spin kick.

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Yeah.

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And it was Che Corleone.

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We mentioned Che briefly.

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Was he Ecuadorian?

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Do you guys remember his actual nationality?

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He was Ecuadorian.

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Ecuadorian. That’s another thing is like oh it doesn’t really matter.

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I think they were calling him Mexican or something.

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Oh and another thing is oh, it doesn't really matter.

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It's like, hey, come on, man.

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like, hey, come on, man.

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I'm Ecuadorian.

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And I thought it was creative.

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What they did with the names is because Che, Ecuadorian.

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Che Guevara

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Um, and then Corleone from the Godfather and they kind of combine those names together.

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Yeah, he was, he was a feisty one.

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He had some skills, but he was a little bit overmatched at times

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and he had relations with Megaton's girl.

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Um, what was the name?

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Backwoods?

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Bella Backwoods.

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Another funny name.

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yeah.

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Che was funny though because Che would,

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n the midst of the battle, he'd spit some bars and nobody would get it.

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He’s like, you don't get it?

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His was a litle more refined.

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It was like crickets.

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If you have to explain the bars, it's not as good.

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Like explaining a joke.

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Yeah.

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And Megaton, which is a play on words, I guess, with Megatron, the Transformer.

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Or like the big bomb.

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Middle Eastern dude, big hulking guy.

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And he had a mean streak, he was violent.

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Like I said, he would take things personally and he literally would punch opponents at times.

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He was very skilled with his rapping though.

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He was good.

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Yeah.

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But you talked about that.

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that scene too where he had guns and stuff and you didn't want you don't want to mess with him.

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I saw in the credits that he wrote some of his lyrics.

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Yeah, I saw it was in the credits that he actually wrote some of,

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I don't know, I'm guessing he wrote a, I don't know if he wrote all of them or not, but I saw it, it went by

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kind of quick.

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I'm like, hey, he actually wrote some of them because I remember his name showing up,

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Disaster, and it's like, yeah, such and such something written by Disaster.

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he wrote.

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So I guess he is a rapper, or he had done rap, because Disaster, he's credited as Disaster, and then.

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a battle rapper in real life, yeah.

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And then Prospek is dumbfounded, or Dumbfoundead.

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So he's a rapper as well.

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Yep.

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Che Corleone is not a rapper, I don't believe.

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Walter Perez is his name in real life.

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Yeah.

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he had dabbled, I'm not sure.

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There's Devine Wright.

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She's the Black female rapper, takes no crap.

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She was fun.

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Brief mention, this guy Billy Pistols, he was kind of like the poser guy.

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He was lame with his skills and he's the one that confronted Ben and Adam in the parking lot and early on.

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And that was Adam's first opportunity to battle.

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And he kind of bodied him and that's when he's like, oh wow, maybe I can do this.

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And he was all happy and I remember him telling his girlfriend Maya in the car that he won that battle.

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And I guess the light bulb went off like, hey, I can.

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Maybe I can do this.

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Yeah, dude, it's yeah.

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And I think it was such an it was like an adrenaline rush for him too.

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And he was like super hyped and excited.

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Like I said, he was probably looking for some sort of validation because he wasn't really getting it at home.

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I guess because he had an interesting relationship with Maya, his girlfriend, which we can get into.

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And obviously the odd relationship with his father, who was

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played by Anthony Michael Hall, 80s teen idol superstar, who was in all the...

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John Hughes films, yeah.

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Sixteen Candles and he was even in Vacation.

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Breakfast Club.

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Breakfast Club, all those movies.

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He plays Adam's father in this movie and he's a famous writer and a college professor.

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I think this was supposed to be UC Berkeley.

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So it was a prestigious college, yep.

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But also, what do you guys make of Adam's girlfriend, Maya?

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Hmm.

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how would you describe her?

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I think she was a sympathetic figure.

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Some of it was a satire of wokeness, I feel like, but I thought she was believable

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and I think she acted the most normal of everyone.

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She was very, I put it in my notes, and he even mentioned she's like crunchy granola.

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She's like very earthy, bohemian, and

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she couldn't get over the misogyny and the insults of the rap.

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She was like, how could you do this?

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How could you say this to another human being?

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I guess I kind of get her point,

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and maybe it is satirical of wokeness, where it's like, come on, this is what they do.

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There's this guy.

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boys being boys or plus, you know, well Devine is in there as well, but like they're just doing their thing.

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This is what they do.

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It's kind of like locker room humor, but yeah, I understand her point.

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She kind of took it to extremes.

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I'm not sure what the writers wanted us to feel about her.

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Did they want us to be like, she's kind of lame or she's kind of like, well, she's the one that's kind of trying to keep him grounded.

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I'm not sure.

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Yeah, it didn't work, but yeah.

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It was like, for me, she was like a cross between

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staying grounded and almost,

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staying grounded and logical to almost being almost to Adam's hypeness.

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She was almost like a Debbie Downer type to his hypeness.

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But I get it because his hypeness was going to his head and he was starting to go off the rails a little bit.

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But the one thing about her character that I just drove me nuts was.

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when she videotaped part of the battle and then played it in the classroom.

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I was like, you know what?

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I kind of see why you didn't want him to get involved and you were trying to keep him

grounded

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and keep him focused and keep him on track and kind of trying to shift his thesis

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to another subject.

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But that was a little, that was wrong.

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And you just kind of put him out there.

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Like if you really cared about him, that's not the way to do it.

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I don't think she cared about him though.

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At the end.

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anybody that would get involved in that world is not worthy of dating, although they stayed together for quite a while.

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But yeah, I mean, that's an easy way to get someone canceled.

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You know, cancel culture, you know, is kind of

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at an all time high right now, or maybe it peaked in its ebbs and flows, but it's very prominent in society today.

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And like, literally that set off protests on campus, like, because he's spewing Asian hate, he's spewing

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Um, misogyny against women, like all the hate you could think of, right?

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And obviously it is a bad look when it's, but it's out of, it's kind of out of context because it's almost at these events.

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Again, you know what you sign up for?

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All bets are off the table.

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You have to have thick skin.

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Like this is the game you're in.

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So it's not like.

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You're literally going up to an unknown person and you're in their face.

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This is

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Right.

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And it was kind of thrown out there without context.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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I think she knew when the release of the battle was what happened and she could use it in her presentation.

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And yeah, that was, you're it.

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it.

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She that was that was filmed by the at the event.

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Right.

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but she took it and edited it out, right, I guess.

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Yeah, she definitely played the most damning clip of them all.

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Yeah, oof, that was cringy.

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speaking of cringe, there's a lot of tough insults to see.

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Again, all the ethnic stuff is bad.

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And then, I mean, the big one, I think we were talking about this pre-show, Boogie, you wanna talk about like the one

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one that's even more above and beyond, right, with Behn's

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daughter.

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Yeah.

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as Adam starts to progress through his wanting to be a battle rapper, he takes up an offer.

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And also, well, Behn kind of encouraged him a little bit too because Behn was a family man.

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He had a wife, he had a daughter, he worked as a software designer, was it a video game designer?

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Video game designer.

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And so he had a nice, respectable career, you know.

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did the family thing and he was using the battles as a means to supplement his income.

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So he wanted to take the battle against Adam but Adam

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took it to a whole other level and Behn even said it, he doesn't like, he didn't even explain to Adam that he didn't like to

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talk about anyone's personal stuff because he didn't want anybody coming after his personal stuff.

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He kept his stuff separate, hidden.

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And he just left it at that.

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He just kind of left his insults directly to who he was battling.

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And I think even he said, Oh, I talk about how I'm gonna shoot you up or something like that.

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I think that was exactly what he said.

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But Adam decided to bring Ben's daughter into the battle.

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And his daughter has cystic fibrosis.

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And Adam just talked about how she struggles to breathe and how

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Behn can't help her because he's a bad father and comparing it at Behn's demise to his daughter trying to reach for her breath.

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And it was just hard.

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Oh my God, it was hard to watch.

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Yeah, he went way too far.

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They had a gentleman's agreement not to do anything personal, and they both kind of broke that rule in that specific battle.

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But again, I guess rules go off the table.

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Go out the window, I should say.

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Yeah, but that was really terrible to see.

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And what happened, so they battle that way.

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And then all of a sudden these other two guys come in and they do, even after he insults his daughter.

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They do this two versus two battle.

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And it's like the, yeah, those guys, 40 Mag and Blunts.

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And these guys are like saying, we can take you guys, we can take you guys.

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And Adam and Behn team up and they kind of win that battle.

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But the damage was already done.

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You know, that.

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just right here.

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Afterwards, towards the end, you know, Behn is just like, that's it, I'm outta here, man.

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I thought we were friends, you know, that was it.

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Yeah, there's some things that cross the line.

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Yep.

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He said I'm going home to my family.

446

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Yep. Where I should be, where I should have been all this time.

447

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Yep.

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It’s funny. So Behn's wife was a little bit of character too.

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She just saw like Adam, like, why are you doing it here?

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Like you're racist and everything.

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And like, she didn't give him a chance.

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She didn't give Adam a chance at all.

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Yeah.

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She came in full throttle.

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Yeah, she did not want to hear.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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So let's talk a little bit more about, I mean, the obvious comparison you're going to see is with 8 Mile because Eminem had a

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big hand in both movies, both Bodied and 8 Mile.

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Do you feel this was semi-autobiographical for Eminem?

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And like, what are similarities between like, Adam's character and B-Rabbit in 8 Mile?

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I mean, I'll kick it off.

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I mean, I've already mentioned like the nerdy white kid, obviously entering a territory not really known for white guys.

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similarity was kind of like I saw you know how in B-Rabbit predicted all the insults about him in 8 Mile.

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Oh yes I live in a trailer park you know I have a bad you know

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my mom drinks too much blah blah blah like what else is he gonna say about me but we we saw that in that one battle

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was it

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Devine Wright and Prospek.

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They both went in on their own cultures and stuff and everybody was like

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doing a double take like what what that was dope that was dope but like why are you insulting yourself so you kind of use

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that same aspect of like hey beat the other person's to the punch

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so that was similar right you what else was similar you guys think

472

00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:14,833

Yeah, I mean, I think even some of, as Adam progressed,

473

00:29:14,833 --> 00:29:22,625

his quick wittedness and how he was able to take what was said against him

474

00:29:22,625 --> 00:29:28,000

and throw it back at his opponent is very Eminem.

475

00:29:29,208 --> 00:29:33,083

I mean, even like I've seen some, heard some of his earlier freestyles

476

00:29:33,083 --> 00:29:37,791

and like seen some of his early battles and like you would say something to him.

477

00:29:37,791 --> 00:29:39,791

And it was kind of like he did it in 8 Mile

478

00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:43,333

when he put that Leave It To Beaver line, he flipped it back on him

479

00:29:43,333 --> 00:29:46,666

and he said, oh, okay, yeah, he almost killed me with that

480

00:29:46,666 --> 00:29:48,625

Leave It To Beaver line, but yeah, I turned around and

481

00:29:48,625 --> 00:29:49,333

flipped it on him.

482

00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:54,083

It's like, Adam's flow was very reminiscent of how

483

00:29:54,083 --> 00:29:59,000

Eminem could take an insult, throw it right back at you a little harder.

484

00:30:01,250 --> 00:30:02,166

I wasn't sure how.

485

00:30:02,166 --> 00:30:06,958

I mean, I know there was some autobiographical elements to it, but I don't really think...

486

00:30:06,958 --> 00:30:15,541

I mean, obviously they were from different socioeconomic circumstances, and so that already makes it a lot different.

487

00:30:18,583 --> 00:30:20,791

Adam's a graduate student at Berkeley.

488

00:30:22,541 --> 00:30:22,958

You know, B.

489

00:30:22,958 --> 00:30:25,916

Rabbit is in a trailer park in the Detroit suburbs.

490

00:30:26,291 --> 00:30:27,750

It's very different.

491

00:30:29,291 --> 00:30:34,958

But there was sort of the same kind of like, kind of make a name for yourself in this foreign world.

492

00:30:36,958 --> 00:30:42,125

And I know why B-Rabbit was doing what he was doing because he was trying to get out of where he was.

493

00:30:42,125 --> 00:30:45,250

But I don't know what Adam was trying to do.

494

00:30:45,250 --> 00:30:49,500

Was he trying to get out of the ivory tower world?

495

00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:53,875

Was he trying to be in the battle rap world?

496

00:30:54,666 --> 00:30:56,041

That's why I was confused.

497

00:30:56,583 --> 00:30:58,750

That's why I said earlier I was confused about his motivations.

498

00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:03,666

And like, and so whether he's, yeah.

499

00:31:03,666 --> 00:31:07,375

I think he was just seeking validation

500

00:31:07,375 --> 00:31:12,458

admiration that he wasn't getting at home because he doesn't really get it from Maya or his father.

501

00:31:12,458 --> 00:31:16,166

I don't know if he mentioned his mother being in the picture or not,

502

00:31:16,166 --> 00:31:20,416

I don't think so, because I think the parents were divorced or something.

503

00:31:20,416 --> 00:31:28,708

But like, I just think that like he was seeking some love and admiration that he wasn't getting elsewhere.

504

00:31:29,291 --> 00:31:32,166

And this was like a way to get that.

505

00:31:32,666 --> 00:31:33,375

Yeah.

506

00:31:35,125 --> 00:31:38,666

the mob mentality if they like you, then you're a king, you know?

507

00:31:39,083 --> 00:31:39,833

Yeah.

508

00:31:40,041 --> 00:31:49,958

The other strategic thing with the battle rap that I saw at 8 Mile too, I think Boogie kind of hinted at it too, if you go back to B-Rabbit vs.

509

00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:53,625

Papa Doc, he exposed him like, I know something you don't know.

510

00:31:53,625 --> 00:31:55,416

His real name is, he went to a private school.

511

00:31:55,416 --> 00:31:57,083

Same type of thing.

512

00:31:57,083 --> 00:32:03,583

When he came out with, hey listen, this guy works at a video, he's a video game designer and he's a family man.

513

00:32:03,583 --> 00:32:04,583

It's like, ooh, he's a family man.

514

00:32:04,583 --> 00:32:06,083

And everybody gets on his case.

515

00:32:06,208 --> 00:32:07,125

Yeah.

516

00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:07,875

Yeah.

517

00:32:08,083 --> 00:32:10,916

It's funny, but yeah, he kind of...

518

00:32:12,125 --> 00:32:17,458

Personal stuff, right, he's like, he'd exposed him for being not hardcore.

519

00:32:17,458 --> 00:32:20,125

Yeah, these guys aren't really hardcore, like they look.

520

00:32:20,125 --> 00:32:22,500

Yeah, like they pretend to be.

521

00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:24,666

a cyber-signature design video games.

522

00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,291

Yeah, the thing that like I wasn't thinking there were

523

00:32:29,291 --> 00:32:36,000

too many parallels to 8 Mile, but the very last line of the film

524

00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,291

where he was saying I need I need to know my rapper

525

00:32:38,291 --> 00:32:44,250

name is and then they play start playing my name is, you know, Slim Shady, which was his

526

00:32:44,250 --> 00:32:49,625

first really big hit, which kind of introduced Eminem to the masses.

527

00:32:49,625 --> 00:32:53,583

And it's kind of like, oh, is he saying that this is a

528

00:32:55,333 --> 00:32:57,541

alternate version of Eminem.

529

00:32:57,541 --> 00:32:59,250

You know, maybe.

530

00:32:59,250 --> 00:33:03,083

I mean, did he have a...

531

00:33:04,833 --> 00:33:07,625

Yeah, without saying it, they're saying it.

532

00:33:07,833 --> 00:33:16,375

Yeah, I mean, and I wonder if he, he did face a lot of the stereotyping, your white guy and like battle.

533

00:33:16,375 --> 00:33:22,458

I wonder if he actually did get punched out a few times and knock his tooth out and win this battle or something.

534

00:33:22,458 --> 00:33:24,458

Could have been, who knows, you know.

535

00:33:24,458 --> 00:33:26,041

Yeah, but uh...

536

00:33:26,166 --> 00:33:33,166

Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of like the battle rap component was kind of like what we saw in 8 Mile, but like ratcheted up.

537

00:33:34,208 --> 00:33:38,750

Like the battle raps were like on steroids compared to the 8 Mile.

538

00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:47,916

Yeah, it's I think I just think Eminem had a lot more in the tank where he wanted to show off some of his skills in battle rapping and writing for it.

539

00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:54,041

But I don't know if this movie ever went to like the theater or it came straight out to like the streaming services.

540

00:33:54,041 --> 00:33:56,833

I didn't hear too much about it, but I remember.

541

00:33:56,833 --> 00:33:58,833

Okay, right.

542

00:33:58,833 --> 00:34:02,500

Yeah, probably not in the theaters.

543

00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,041

Yeah.

544

00:34:04,041 --> 00:34:08,041

But if you're, I mean, if you're a fan of battle rap, this is a good one.

545

00:34:08,041 --> 00:34:12,500

This is a, I would say this is, it's a good watch.

546

00:34:13,375 --> 00:34:17,000

Yeah, I mean, there was some homework done with this movie.

547

00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:25,791

Like there was one part that I remembered that stood out for me when Professor Merkin, Adam's

548

00:34:25,791 --> 00:34:33,125

father was in a classroom, he was doing a lecture and I forgot how he got to it,

549

00:34:33,125 --> 00:34:39,541

but he referenced one of his favorite lines and it was in reference to LL Cool J.

550

00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:45,208

And then when I remember that, and I distinctly remember that, I was with LL Cool J,

Can-I-Bus beef.

551

00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:50,708

And Can-I-Bus said, you know, 99% of his fans were high heels.

552

00:34:50,708 --> 00:34:56,375

And LL responded, yeah, on his round, yeah, but 99% of his fans don't exist.

553

00:34:56,375 --> 00:34:59,333

And I was like, oh, I remember the first time I heard that.

554

00:34:59,333 --> 00:35:00,916

Like, oh my God.

555

00:35:01,083 --> 00:35:01,916

Hehehehe

556

00:35:01,916 --> 00:35:04,250

Can-I-Bus came after the king and missed.

557

00:35:04,916 --> 00:35:08,083

I was like, what are you doing, man?

558

00:35:08,083 --> 00:35:10,458

a dope lyricist.

559

00:35:10,541 --> 00:35:17,666

Like Can-I-Bus, I remember when he hit the scene, like he was on all of those underground

DJ Clue mix tapes,

560

00:35:17,666 --> 00:35:20,708

like rhyme after rhyme after rhyme.

561

00:35:20,708 --> 00:35:25,000

And I don't even know, I can't remember the full story,

562

00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,250

but I remember he just, like he insult the LL, it was on that 4321 track.

563

00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:32,708

And they were recording that.

564

00:35:32,708 --> 00:35:36,958

and the beef kicked off from there and it was just insult back and forth.

565

00:35:36,958 --> 00:35:42,791

And like, people say what they want about LL Cool J man,

566

00:35:42,791 --> 00:35:46,833

but LL Cool J was one guy you don't wanna go against in a battle.

567

00:35:46,833 --> 00:35:55,125

Like a lot of our younger listeners, they see LL Cool J as an actor, but you don't

understand

568

00:35:55,125 --> 00:36:01,000

that LL Cool J was Jack the Ripper, King Hercules, like he was destroying

569

00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,041

people on the mic.

570

00:36:03,375 --> 00:36:07,291

So when I heard that line reference, those lines referenced in the movie, I was like, yes!

571

00:36:07,291 --> 00:36:09,083

Yes, somebody did their homework.

572

00:36:09,083 --> 00:36:10,208

Ha ha ha.

573

00:36:10,208 --> 00:36:11,000

Yes.

574

00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:20,125

There's some other like pop culture guys that appeared in this film.

575

00:36:20,125 --> 00:36:23,250

And if you like catch it and you're like, oh wow, that's that person.

576

00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:25,416

So we already mentioned Anthony Michael Hall has a huge part.

577

00:36:25,416 --> 00:36:27,333

That's Adam's dad, the professor.

578

00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:34,166

But a Simon Rex, uh, plays a guy named Donnie Narco, which is another play on words, like a Donnie Darko type thing.

579

00:36:34,166 --> 00:36:38,208

But he's like an MC or like kind of hosting some of these battles.

580

00:36:38,208 --> 00:36:40,708

And he's charismatic in this one.

581

00:36:40,708 --> 00:36:42,041

Um, like.

582

00:36:42,041 --> 00:36:43,500

hype man slash MC.

583

00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:49,125

But if you remember him, he, he got his start, I think on MTV.

584

00:36:49,125 --> 00:36:52,916

He's been in a lot of Scary Movie series.

585

00:36:54,791 --> 00:36:56,458

a bunch of random movies.

586

00:36:56,458 --> 00:36:57,750

He was a model.

587

00:36:57,750 --> 00:37:00,083

He's had a lot of interesting career.

588

00:37:00,083 --> 00:37:02,125

But yes, Simon Rex is someone that's recognizable.

589

00:37:02,125 --> 00:37:04,541

When I saw him, I'm like, who is that guy?

590

00:37:04,541 --> 00:37:07,083

And then I realized it.

591

00:37:07,083 --> 00:37:09,375

And then Andy Milonakis

592

00:37:09,375 --> 00:37:18,916

is a weird looking little dude who also had some time, I think, on MTV or some Comedy Central or something like that.

593

00:37:18,916 --> 00:37:24,500

And he pops up as a hosting a rap battle like in a CD.

594

00:37:26,291 --> 00:37:33,000

under like a hotel basement there were a lot of rats rats it was like a nasty spot yeah

595

00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,166

Freddy Hustle.

596

00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:38,208

Yeah, but he's in this and I'm like, wow, I hadn't seen that guy in forever.

597

00:37:38,208 --> 00:37:40,958

And now this movie is 2017, but still

598

00:37:40,958 --> 00:37:48,833

from, from when he had his moment to now, he had his own show, Andy Milonakis Show’s like a sketch comedy show.

599

00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:49,666

Yeah.

600

00:37:51,458 --> 00:37:51,791

I'm doing it.

601

00:37:51,791 --> 00:37:52,208

Yeah.

602

00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:52,958

kid back then.

603

00:37:52,958 --> 00:37:54,083

Oh man.

604

00:37:55,833 --> 00:37:57,833

funny guy man, funny guy.

605

00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,500

Yes, he's 47.

606

00:38:01,125 --> 00:38:03,083

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

607

00:38:03,083 --> 00:38:05,125

But I was like, whoa, there's that guy.

608

00:38:05,125 --> 00:38:08,125

You know, like I almost forget about this kid.

609

00:38:08,208 --> 00:38:11,375

Yeah, those are some of the cameos.

610

00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:14,125

We had a Charlamagne tha God for

611

00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:21,875

our, anybody who's listening in the Tri-State New York area, one of our, um, from, uh, 105.1,

612

00:38:23,125 --> 00:38:28,000

AM show and he's, he's everywhere, but yeah, I

613

00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,333

remember him from when he first started on the radio.

614

00:38:31,333 --> 00:38:35,291

And, uh, Oh, we've got a bunch of our, I got Behn Grym,

615

00:38:35,291 --> 00:38:45,125

Behn Grym played by Jackie Long, who was Esquire, the character Esquire in ATL, a movie that we've previously

616

00:38:45,125 --> 00:38:46,416

reviewed.

617

00:38:49,208 --> 00:38:51,208

We did an episode on ATL.

618

00:38:51,208 --> 00:38:52,541

Yep.

619

00:38:53,250 --> 00:38:54,708

Yeah, he's been a lot of things.

620

00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:59,250

I mean, like some of the other faces I remember, like I was looking at them and I remember seeing their faces in some of the other

621

00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:02,083

stuff that I've come across, but I couldn't

622

00:39:02,083 --> 00:39:03,666

remember from where.

623

00:39:04,708 --> 00:39:06,166

I was like, you've got that familiar face.

624

00:39:06,166 --> 00:39:07,708

I know that face.

625

00:39:08,041 --> 00:39:12,833

Yeah, definitely recognize Devine Wright too, Shoniqua Shandai.

626

00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:15,750

I don't know where from, but she looks familiar.

627

00:39:16,541 --> 00:39:17,416

Mm-hmm.

628

00:39:17,416 --> 00:39:19,416

I think we covered all different aspects here.

629

00:39:19,416 --> 00:39:22,666

So why don't we give our ratings go around the room?

630

00:39:24,708 --> 00:39:26,833

Boogie, for Bodied.

631

00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:29,541

Would you bring that funky flick back?

632

00:39:30,458 --> 00:39:31,458

Put it in the vault?

633

00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:36,458

You know, I watched it and I watched it

634

00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:41,875

like almost a second time, but I think I'll probably bring in Funky Flick back.

635

00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:46,458

I think I want to watch it at least a couple more times because I'm pretty sure there's some aspects and

636

00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:48,916

elements of the film that I didn't catch.

637

00:39:48,916 --> 00:39:55,916

And I think that if I delve into it a little deeper, I'll pull some more out of it and get a little more substance out of it.

638

00:39:55,916 --> 00:40:01,916

And I think that I would recommend it for others to watch it as well.

639

00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,125

see if they can get something out of it as well.

640

00:40:05,125 --> 00:40:06,708

So yeah, I'd bring it back.

641

00:40:07,416 --> 00:40:08,833

How about you, DynoWright?

642

00:40:09,958 --> 00:40:11,708

I will bring this funky flick back.

643

00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:13,083

I think it's worth seeing.

644

00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:14,791

It has some interesting ideas.

645

00:40:14,791 --> 00:40:19,708

The racial and ethnic issues are always hard to tackle on film and media,

646

00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:22,833

but I think they do a good job about raising some of these questions.

647

00:40:22,833 --> 00:40:24,875

So bring this funky flick back.

648

00:40:26,291 --> 00:40:27,916

Yeah, I would bring it back as well.

649

00:40:27,916 --> 00:40:29,541

So bring this funky flick back.

650

00:40:29,541 --> 00:40:36,041

I'm always amazed by the creativity of battle rappers, how they can think on their feet.

651

00:40:36,041 --> 00:40:40,208

I know they're kind of like comedians in terms of, you have some material prepped

652

00:40:40,208 --> 00:40:46,416

and you kind of have this foundation or base, but man, when you're in the spotlight and there's a

653

00:40:46,416 --> 00:40:52,583

crowd around you, a mob, and you gotta stand tall and come back with it.

654

00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:54,375

And again, try not to...

655

00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:56,916

be thrown off your game and take things too personally.

656

00:40:57,041 --> 00:40:59,708

A lot of talent here overall.

657

00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:00,916

I liked it, yep.

658

00:41:00,916 --> 00:41:02,375

Go see it.

659

00:41:02,375 --> 00:41:03,708

Yep.

660

00:41:04,416 --> 00:41:06,166

Find it on YouTube, I guess.

661

00:41:06,166 --> 00:41:07,125

I watched it on Tubi.

662

00:41:07,125 --> 00:41:07,375

YouTube.

663

00:41:07,375 --> 00:41:08,958

Yeah, Tubi or YouTube.

664

00:41:09,041 --> 00:41:11,875

Tubi, it’s on Prime.

665

00:41:11,875 --> 00:41:16,083

It was funny because I went to watch it and I saw, I saw, I said, Oh, let me see if it's on Tubi.

666

00:41:16,083 --> 00:41:17,791

I saw it on Tubi and I saved it.

667

00:41:17,791 --> 00:41:23,375

And then at the last minute, someone said, eh, let's do a quick prime search.

668

00:41:23,375 --> 00:41:25,458

And I said, Oh, watch with prime.

669

00:41:25,458 --> 00:41:27,500

Okay, I'm gonna watch it without commercials.

670

00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:28,416

Ha ha ha.

671

00:41:28,416 --> 00:41:29,541

That's the thing.

672

00:41:29,666 --> 00:41:31,250

It has commercials on Tubi.

673

00:41:38,041 --> 00:41:44,625

On the next episode of the Hip Hop Movie Club Podcast, your HHMC's will review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

674

00:41:44,875 --> 00:41:47,875

Subscribe now on your favorite podcast app and you won't miss it.

675

00:41:48,041 --> 00:41:49,125

Shout out to you listeners.

676

00:41:49,125 --> 00:41:50,416

Thanks for tuning in.

677

00:41:51,875 --> 00:41:54,875

And remember, don't hate, perpetuate.

678

00:41:55,750 --> 00:41:57,083

Perpetuate.

679

00:41:57,125 --> 00:42:01,125

Perpetuate only the good things, you know, but keep it positive.

680

00:42:01,125 --> 00:42:02,333

That's right.

681

00:42:02,333 --> 00:42:02,916

on.

682

00:42:04,666 --> 00:42:06,000

Yes.

683

00:42:06,083 --> 00:42:07,083

Keep it going.