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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club.

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The show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with the magic of movies.

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We're three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm Dyno Wright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan, and happy belated 29th birthday to Stakes is High, my favorite De La Soul album.

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Nice.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan, and I'm all too familiar with the phrase, are we there yet?

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Having driven the family of four from PA to Florida four times.

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They were well behaved though.

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It's so funny though before I every time I hear that phrase I think of that whole um, the Simpsons are we there yet?

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Are we there yet?

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Nope!

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Are we there yet?

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Nope!

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Ha ha ha ha ha.

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But I'm Boogie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan, and I almost forgot how funny this movie was, since I haven't seen it in years, but man man, I laughed my behind off watching it.

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Just silly stuff, I love it.

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we just watched, Are We There Yet?

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The 2005 rom-com featuring Ice Cube.

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And one of my first impressions was like, this is a knockoff of Home Alone, just from the opening scene.

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They set up the booby trap for the guy that's coming to the house.

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He slips, he falls on marbles and stuff, and then things hit him in the head and he gets knocked out.

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The son's name was even Kevin.

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They leave him behind at some point as well.

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along with his sister.

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It even happened during Christmas time too.

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Yeah.

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It was like Homie Alone.

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Homie alone.

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Wish I had a sock, like, Homie don't play that.

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I don't think so

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But overall, no, it wasn't.

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There was a lot of other hijinks that ensued.

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It was entertaining.

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But has there ever been such a transformation in a short amount of time from the late 80s into this, you know 2005 where you have Ice Cube.

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Look at him on the cover of AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.

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He looks like total gangster.

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then F the police, we all know with NWA and all that stuff.

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And now he's like Mr.

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Father Figure, you know.

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I'll take your kids out to Vancouver.

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I'll fly them out, sit with them, and then we'll do the train and all that crazy stuff that happens.

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And at some point, he's sticking out his tongue at the kids.

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I'm like, how does it get from there to that?

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Yeah, it's just wild.

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do the classic Ice Cube face.

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Yeah, I did help Kevin prevent the bully.

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Yep.

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Yeah, you really don't see...

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Yeah, you don't really see that kind of transformation.

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The only one I can think of is Ice-T, but it's not like Ice-T was doing like rom-coms or anything like that.

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He was more like doing, playing police roles.

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Right.

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But going from gangster rapper to father figure, family friendly...

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Ice Cube mastered that.

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Yeah.

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Just ask his accountant I'm sure.

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I mean, you have people transform over time from like other genres or like, you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a Mr.

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Bodybuilder and then he'd be, you know, he's in these movies and Dwayne Johnson, the Rock, you know, the wrestlers, he's one day he's calling people candy ass and stuff.

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then, and now he's you know, Moana, he's Maui Moana and he's, know, tooth fairy, I think he was.

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Mm-hmm.

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He was tooth fairy

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quarterback, yeah.

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Was he in The Pacifier too, or is that Vin Diesel?

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get those ones mixed up.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, so that, I mean, you could see how to translate because of the math, but going from gangster to father figure, that's unprecedented.

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You didn't see anybody else in that genre.

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You don't see like the late Eazy-E never got to that level.

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Even Dr.

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Dre never did that.

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Too $hort, any of those guys, no, didn't really happen.

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Yeah.

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From America's most feared rap group to playing step daddy in the making.

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I'm the Pappy.

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Yes.

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Oh man.

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And this

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Yeah, they need that.

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There needs to be a case study on it on this transformation.

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Some kind of figure something out like, hey, how did he do it?

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Get a flowchart on that one.

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It's an unlikely story, yeah.

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I think it's part of his talent.

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He's a good performer of all kinds.

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So he can do the family friendly.

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He can do the gangster rapper.

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mean, that was real.

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Like that was his lived experience and stuff.

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But he's that good of a performer that he can do like Three Kings and he can do, Are We There Yet?

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And he can do, you know, all these other things.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, very charismatic.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then go right back to putting out more music.

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Like it was nothing.

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Lose no street cred or anything.

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Yeah.

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Amazing.

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Hip Hop Movie Club is produced by your HHMC's: JB. BooGie, and Dyno Wright.

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Theme music by Boogie.

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Join us on Friday, August 15th at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas and Steel Stacks Bethlehem PA for a screening of another Ice Cube comedy, the classic film Friday, on a

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Friday, tickets at SteelStacks.org.

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As always, check out our live event schedule on our website, hiphopmovieclub.com.

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And remember, don't hate, navigate.

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Navigate like that navigator that got messed up in the movie

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I felt so bad for the navigator.

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It got so wrecked.

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It got so wrecked.

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How you knock the spinners off?

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Oof.

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That was rough.

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put some baby shoes on it.

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Hahahaha!

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had to sit low low low low

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Hehehehehe

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He had to navigate a lot of difficulties traversing these kids from plane, attempt, train, car.

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trains and automobiles.

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Yeah.

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It was just nonstop hijinks.

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Just nonstop.

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You couldn't catch your breath.

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Ah man.

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I liked his job as the sports memorabilia store owner.

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He owned a lot of dope jerseys in there too.

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and I have to mention the Satchel Paige bobblehead.

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love that touch.

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Played by Tracy Morgan.

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That was awesome.

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That was great.