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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show

that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with

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the magic of movies.

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Today we're discussing the three worst hip

hop movies ever.

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We are three old heads who put their old

heads together to vibe on these films for

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you.

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I'm Dyno Wright, podcaster, filmmaker,

longtime hip hop fan, and the most

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important thing I learned from Master P is

to make him say, UNNNNHHHH

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

time Hip-Hop fan, and I fairly recently

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performed Parents Just Don't Understand at

a karaoke night.

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Yeah.

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Nice.

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I'm Boogie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan.

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And one of my favorite things to do is

watch clips of breakdancing battles.

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I do it all day.

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And I'm so excited for breakdancing to

premiere in these Olympic games in Paris.

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Finally.

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Yes, sir.

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In this episode, we'll answer the

question, why?

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Why?

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Just why were a few of these movies, these

terrible films made?

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This is gonna be fun.

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Whoo

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Get ready for some hot takes.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, if you listen to our

episodes and we give ratings at the end

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of, you know, bring that funky flick back

or leave it in the vault.

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There's a couple that were unanimous, not

too many and a lot of were unanimous in

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terms of yes, bring this back.

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These are a lot of really good films out

there, but there are a few that were just

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Dreadful.

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To say the least.

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We're gonna rank these in order of three,

two, one.

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So I think there's a few that we agree on,

but Boogie, would you nominate the third

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worst hip hop movie film of all time?

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You have a nomination?

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a tough one.

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See, the first one that came to my mind

was Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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But, I actually, as bad as that movie is,

I actually do enjoy watching that movie.

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So I'm not gonna nominate that movie.

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Cause it gives me good laughs.

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Good for laugh value.

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So I will probably say...

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I Got the Hook Up.

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Hahaha

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I don’t know.

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I remember that one did go off the rails.

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It lost.

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Yeah, it was, it was, it was okay.

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It was fun.

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got a lot going on.

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Ha ha ha.

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it got to the point and then it got to the

end and the cops weren't who they said

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they were.

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And I'm like, what, what?

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The weird chase, the weird car chase

scene, the random, what was it?

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I don't even want to call it a brothel,

but like, his uncle turned into like a

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club with all the strippers and stuff.

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Like, what the heck?

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It was like random, like it was random.

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Like there's so much random.

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parts in that movie that just didn't make

sense at all.

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I mean, I think it was one of those

situations where like, cause Master P' had,

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Master P’s money was long at that time.

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So he probably was just like, yeah, I got

money.

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I'm going to make a movie.

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You know, dude had, you know, I remember

MTV Cribs, you know, he had like,

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solid gold, you know, handle on his

toilet and stuff like that.

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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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Solid gold like, you know, water faucets and stuff, like

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Like you know, unnecessary stuff so he was probably like

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Yeah I got money let me go make a movie real quick

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I don’t know, but yeah, that’s probably gonna be mine.

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This guy literally drove around tanks, probably like

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diamond-encrusted tanks we talked about

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It was, he did whatever he wanted

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he wants to play

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basketball for like the Houston Rockets.

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It's like, yeah, he's in the summer league

team.

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You know, he's like, what this guy,

whatever he wanted to do.

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He was the one that we talked about.

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He negotiated his contracts with those

record deals.

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Like amazingly, like

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getting such a huge cut of everything.

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And then he had his whole family, Silkk

the Shocker and all these other Mystikal

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all these guys making records and selling

tons and tons of albums back then.

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He was printing money.

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Yeah.

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So that's why he made that film.

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he started off independently selling them

out the trunk of his car.

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So like he was making, he had no, like he

had no middle man.

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Whatever he made, it went straight to the pocket

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So you, you figured you go platinum, you

go platinum or almost a gold even, just

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from selling out of your trunk with no

middle man.

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You know, you saw the albums were selling

for, you know, the price of a regular

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It wasn't like, you know, two dollars,

full length albums, you know, selling out

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the trunk with no record label, no shady

contract in the middle, taking a cut.

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You know, it’s like, that’s insane.

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Like I tell people, I remember the very first time I heard of Master P

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because I had.

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I had one of my boys went to school out in

Ohio and he said, yo, yo, L gotta hear this.

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There's this guy.

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He just says, UNNHH and the whole crowd

goes crazy.

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And I'm like, what?

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That's it?

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That's all he says?

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Like, what else does he say?

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He says other stuff, but like, that's it.

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That's the catch.

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Like the whole place gets crazy.

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I'm like, okay.

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So we go to a party or whatever.

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He throws it on.

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And I'm like, wow.

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I couldn't believe it.

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But yeah, but yeah, you know, he made a

movie and it was horrible, but you know,

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no knock on him.

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He's still cemented you know, in hip hop

culture as, you know, a legend in the

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game, but that movie....ehh.

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Hahahaha

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But they also, like you said, they did end

up with a sequel also just because they

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could.

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Yep, yep.

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Dyno Wright, do you have a nomination for

a third worst hip hop movie?

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I was also gonna go with I Got the

Hook-up.

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It had its moments, but as a film it

wasn't that great and then they had these

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these like unsatisfying plot twists at the

end and so yeah, it was not that Not quite

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Cinematic triumph, I'd say.

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I mean, I did enlist in the No Limit Army,

but this was just against my morals.

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Haha

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Can you get a discharge from the No Limit

Army?

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Hahahaha

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I agree with, it had major flaws.

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You know what movie really didn’t care as much for

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it might be blasphemous a little bit because there’s such legendary people in it

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Poetic Justice, because

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Tupac.

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his talents were kind of wasted because of

the role that he played and Janet Jackson

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was a little bit demure in it and like, I

don't know.

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It's one that I don't really go back that

often to watch or I really wouldn't.

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And it's part of that was John Singleton,

right?

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With this trilogy, it's kind of like, I

almost wish that it was done differently

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or there was a different film in the mix

there.

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It didn't, I don't think, I mean it was

fine.

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But when you, when you get your follow up

from Boyz n the Hood, it's difficult to

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And it felt a little uneven and I probably

even said this in the episode we did, that

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there was a better movie in here

somewhere, but it wasn't on the thing we

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Yeah, I'm looking back at some of my

comments and it was like, like, was just a

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little bit too much of just gratuitous

cursing and fighting for no reason, like

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snapping and snapping back and forth and

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Some of that you said it best.

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It didn't really age that well.

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And I think that's where I'm having that

contradiction in my head is like, we love

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so much of Janet Jackson's life's work as

well as Tupac's.

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And for this to be part of that, it's one

of those footnotes, I would think when

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you're talking about their careers.

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It's a minor footnote.

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I won't go so far as to call it a blemish,

but there was something left there, left

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on the table.

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Well, let's get into some that we more or

less agree on in terms of being terrible

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hip hop movies.

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Number two on our list is Malibu's Most

Wanted.

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If you remember my commentary on this one

from my original episode, I was

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embarrassed to be a white guy and watch

this movie.

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I was like, come on, you're disgracing our

entire race.

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you

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point, it was like, let's make a movie

about a white guy that talks, you know,

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really urban fashion, almost like he's

Black.

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And they even use the term that I can't

stand, you know, the term wigger.

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And I'm like, it was just horrible because

this was after Eminem already came on the

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scene.

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So like, it was proven.

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It's been proven time and time.

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White guys can rap.

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Yes, it is a very much.

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Black predominantly, predominant genre of

music.

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And however, I didn't get the point.

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And they took liberties to also, you know,

misappropriate other cultures as well.

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I mean, Kal Penn played a, you know,

generic Middle Eastern guy with all the

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stereotypes.

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I think there was Far Eastern stereotypes.

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It was just terrible.

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Jamie Kennedy had his moment of fame here

and there with the Jamie Kennedy

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Experiment and everything.

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But to make this film, I just, it was like

fingernails on the chalkboard throughout

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the entire movie.

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I was almost like watching it through

veiled eyes.

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I'm like, please let it be over soon.

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geez.

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Yeah, it was a complete mockery to me.

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Like, it was just hard to watch.

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I mean, I had never even considered

watching that movie until we decided to

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view it for the podcast.

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And after watching it, I was just like,

damn, now I know why.

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Yeah, my whole intuition about the movie

was correct.

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It was just a complete waste of my time.

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And I'm like you, JB.

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I love a good comedy.

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I love a good slapstick.

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I love, you know, satires, you know, don't

be a menace.

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to south central while drinking your juice

in the hood.

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You can even go back to things like

Airplane and Caddyshack.

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Like classic, I love a good laugh, but

this didn't make me laugh.

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It was so cringey.

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It was so cringe worthy that I just, it

was hard to watch it.

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you know, you take,

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this film and just, I don't know whose

idea it was to put this out, but I don't

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know.

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I just, yeah, just bad.

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Just bad.

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I never thought I would talk about this

movie again.

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Hahahaha

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It's time to bring it out and flog it in

public.

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8 Mile was released prior to this.

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so listen, Eminem was huge and

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the Beastie Boys

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other like white rappers,

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It was like, wow, a white guy is trying to

be a rapper like big deal.

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And then the part with his father was not

even a likable character.

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It was like the father's not being

attentive and he's almost trying to have

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him get some therapy to overcome his.

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affinity for hip hop culture.

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I was just...

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Yeah, it was not helping his political

campaign.

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It was ridiculous.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Jeez.

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it's one of the great wastes of comedic

talent on film.

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Yes, and then Taye Diggs and Anthony

Anderson who are awesome and they're in

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this movie and I'm like, I bet that they

regret being in it or they probably again

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footnote very minor footnote that they'd

probably want to scratch scratch off.

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Blair Underwood is in this, he’s very good

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Regina Hall is in this, she’s very good

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Ryan O 'Neill, Snoop Dogg, and yet...

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They yanked some great talent into the movie

and completely wasted them.

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Yeah, Nick Swardsen, Jeffrey Tambor And so

they've done so little with so much.

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I mean, like the scenes with Taye Diggs in

them, I enjoyed watching him.

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Yeah

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It was the one saving grace.

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So I will say, yeah, I will say to a

certain point with him, I enjoyed watching

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the scenes with him in them.

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And I mean, he, I don't know, he might've

improvised some of that stuff, because I

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don't see how the script could go from

what was going on to being, you know,

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written well for him.

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Ehhh.

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The fact this movie was actually

profitable in the box office, which is

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beyond my comprehension and is a sad

commentary

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It’s a sad commentary on our society or what we were thinking

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What was our problem that year?

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I don’t know,

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I would like to think we've evolved a bit

from then.

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But yeah, terrible.

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Don't watch that.

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was not a good idea.

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I don't know who thought that was a good

idea.

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But again, except Jamie Kennedy had a

moment, he was able to make a film or, you

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know, be a huge part of it.

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Went over like a lead balloon in my book.

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And then the final one, number one worst

film is one that we covered fairly

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recently.

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And on Rotten Tomatoes, it got 0 % for the

critics rating and but 73 % for the

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audience somehow was State Property.

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Ahhh man, state property, who wants to take

that and kind of speak to why that was so

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terrible?

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State Property ooh-wee

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Where do we start with that one?

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When did State Property come out again?

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It was 2002.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So picture this, the year is 2002.

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Roc-a-Fella Records is pushing millions of

records out there.

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I mean, the only other people that are

probably, other MCs that are probably

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pushing out as much music as him is

probably Eminem and Nelly.

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Jay -Z and the crew decide they're gonna

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put out a film, a crime drama based on the

group state property out of Philadelphia,

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helmed by the great MC.

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Beanie Sigel was a great MC, you know, and

his crew, the Young Guns and Chris and

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Neef and Oschino and Sparks.

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And well, Freeway wasn't in the film

because Freeway was being detained at the

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moment.

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No more to talk about that.

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But this film...

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I mean, I did go watch the movie when it

first came out because I was a Roc-a-fella

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fan boy.

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I'll admit it.

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You know, I was there from where

Roc-a-fella started and it took off and

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I was, you know, I followed them and any

songs, any albums that came out, boom, if

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you were a DJ playing Roc-a-fella records,

like I could play a whole set in a club or

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in a party of nothing but Roc-a-fella

music the entire night and the whole crowd

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would jump and stay on their feet the

entire night.

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With that said, this movie.

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didn't age well for me.

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I enjoyed watching it when I was younger

and watching it as an almost 50 year old

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man, I didn't quite, I mean, I knew what

it was about because it was the street,

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the street, life I get it.

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I mean, I grew up in the hood, so I get

where it was coming from, but it was one

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of those things like, why?

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Why was this movie made?

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And, and...

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I guess at the end of the day, it was

probably one of those those where Jay and

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Dame were like, why not?

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Let's do it.

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We got the money to fund it.

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And they unloaded State Property on the

masses.

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And here we are in 2024 with it as our

number one worst hip hop film.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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DynoWright, You want to add to,

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Yeah.

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So if Malibu's most wanted was who thought

this was a good idea, the question for

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state property was just because you can

doesn't mean you should.

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This movie shouldn't have been made.

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It didn't have a plot.

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It didn't have character development.

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It didn't have any sort of dimension to

it.

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And yeah, it was very easily my worst hip

hop movie ever made.

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Yeah, and as we get to be our age, I guess

we get a little bit more sensitive to the

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violence.

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And it was just senseless violence, like

one after the other, after the other.

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Pointless.

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Yeah, it was just tough to watch.

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You know, it's tough to watch when all

you're just seeing is a lot of killings

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and brutality one after the other.

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And you don't really know the entire

backstory.

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You know, are we supposed to be rooting

for Beans?

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You know, played by Beanie Sigel Why don't

we?

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didn't get the basic characters like in

any sort of correct way.

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shows up and starts killing people and

trying to run the town.

341

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And, that's pretty much it.

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compare the character of Beans in State

Property to Nino Brown in New Jack City.

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You see the difference.

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I mean, we know Nino Brown was a complete

evil guy, but

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he was more dynamic.

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There was facets to him.

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We saw him not necessarily doing all bad.

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So in certain instances you're like, all

right, maybe he's not all bad.

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Whereas like with Beans, it was just like

one -sided, you know, two -dimensional,

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you know, yeah.

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yeah, there's senseless violence and then

there's senseless violence with no point

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that that moves the story along.

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Very sort of, let's just shoot everybody.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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I mean, everything about the film sense,

there's senseless violence and there was a

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lot of like senseless nudity.

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I mean, yeah, I mean, nudity would attract

a lot of the viewers because, you know,

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people, you know, attracted to the nudity,

but it's like, it didn't really have

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anything to do with the storyline, which

is like, wait, there's a naked woman and

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okay, all right.

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Well, it's just one of those things like

you said, it's just because you can do it

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doesn't mean you should do it.

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It didn't add.

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to the story.

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And then Jay -Z's talents were wasted in

the film.

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That was one of our takeaways.

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He had just such a brief role and he was

mostly mumbling in it.

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And it was like, wait, Jay -Z, you know,

he's on the screen.

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It's like, he's just mumbling.

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And what did he say?

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I was like, come on.

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mumbling for no reason and no point to it.

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Nothing that would give you any sort of

sense of what the character is.

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Like, you just, just, let's have him

mumble.

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It's like they pull it out of a hat.

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Like, this guy is going to be a mumbler.

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Why?

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I mean, I don’t know if this film was rushed

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to the theater.

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because there was some other deadline.

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Roc-a-Fella was ruling the roost.

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They were doing everything.

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So maybe there was so much focus on

pumping out the music that maybe this was

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just a side project and like, Hey, we want

to get a film out there and let's just do

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this and not spend time on the character

development and the plot.

387

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and utilizing Jay -Z's charisma, but it

all just fell flat.

388

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Yeah, but they all wore Roc-a-wear

clothing in the film.

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So it was a commercial.

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It was a big commercial.

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the most violent, brutal commercial for

Roc-a-wear you would ever see.

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women, it's like they took like, cause you

know, like when you're filming the the

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music videos, they have these same women.

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They look exactly the same as they were in

the movie.

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But because it's a music video, it's all G rated,

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there are swimsuits and things.

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So well, we could have the same music

videos, but we don't have to have them

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covered up.

399

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Yeah, like, ooh, it was like a 12 year old

boy like wrote this movie.

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Yeah.

401

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Boobies everywhere!

402

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Yeah, yeah.

403

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Yet there was a sequel in this too somehow.

404

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Yeah

405

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Because they had the ability to do it

406

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Because you could.

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I mean, a lot of people did rush to see

this, so they probably funded itself.

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The sequel was, the

sequel has even, has more holes in it than

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Swiss cheese.

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Hahaha

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If you watched the second one, you'd rank

this is one.

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The second one would be like, you know, 0

.9.

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Hahahaha

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It's like, second one's worse.

415

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You can’t imagine.

416

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I think DynoWright, you made a point

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when we were talking about this film, it was like

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Dame Dash was the only one putting forth

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some sort of effort hahaha

420

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in the acting.

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He was trying, everyone else was kinda going through the motions.

422

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Certainly not the type of rapper turned actor

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progression we’ve seen from like, Will Smith or Queen Latifah

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Even Ice Cube No, we just saw like, yeah,

no acting.

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No acting was happening here.

426

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It's a shame because I absolutely loved

this movie when they first come out.

427

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Yes, State property, woo!

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And now it's like, ooh.

429

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We've all matured and become more refined

in our tastes, but woof, you are so right.

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I know I still own the DVD somewhere.

431

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I know I have it.

432

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I'm going to come across it.

433

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It's probably in my storage unit.

434

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I'm going to come across it.

435

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I'm pretty sure of it.

436

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Both of them, one and two.

437

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Because a lot of the films we cover, like

I like to pass down to my son and like

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tell him like, hey, check, like when we

first watched do the right thing for the

439

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podcast and like, I was like, you got to

see some of this.

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It's a great, great cinematography, great

storytelling.

441

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It's racial tensions, which are still

prevalent today.

442

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It’s in the news all the time,

unfortunately, but like, yeah.

443

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And then, you know, Boyz in the Hood and

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Even some of the smaller films have some

more redeeming qualities, even if they're

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not to that level.

446

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But when I was watching this a little

while ago, I'm like, I see my son like

447

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over there and he's kind of like doing his

own thing on his device or whatever.

448

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And I'm like, don't even look up.

449

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Don't watch this.

450

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This was terrible.

451

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Do not engage.

452

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Yeah.

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Do not engage.

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Yeah.

455

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Yeah.

456

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I mean, he's old enough to...

457

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see the R rated movies and stuff.

458

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I'm not concerned about that, but just

like, you don't want to subject them to

459

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the raw violence and lack of storyline and plot.

460

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We can spend this time in better ways.

461

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Exactly.

462

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Alright so there we have it.

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State Property...is a no-go.

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Yeah, they should stay in the confiscated

property locker.

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Yeah right.

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People, what did we miss?

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You got a worse movie?

468

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Tell us in the comments.

469

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Tell us on YouTube or hit us up.

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471

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Because there's probably, I'm sure there

are worse movies than we got on this list.

472

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So tell us about it.

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Comment below.

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