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On this episode of Hip Hop Movie Club,
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we explore the 2024 hip-hop parody film,
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A Hip Hop Story. Written,
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directed, and stars Affion Crockett,
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who plays a variety of hip-hop acts from
the beginning of hip-hop history through
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the modern day. And it's just a lot of
laughs in here.
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a big spoof on Russell Simmons throughout.
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as he plays a character Roscoe Simmons,
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his way of speech, his yoga,
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the way he's holding his leg over his
head,
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all that type of stuff. Made me laugh
quite a bit.
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and no one was safe really. There's a lot
of spoofing on a lot of acts,
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especially from like the eighties and
nineties on up.
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So I mean plot line in my opinion,
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it's kind of thin.
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But it was just one of those
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You want to veg out and just
watch a film and get a bunch
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of chuckles out of it? It'd serve its
purpose that way.
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I think in general this does ask good
questions about the state of hip hop
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at at the age fifty. I think Boogie's
right.
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is hip hop not as good as it was in the
early days?
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Why aren't OGs doing it like they were
doing it before?
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But I don't like where the answers landed
so much.
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Like it's like ignoring Kendrick Lamar.
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he wasn't spoofed here at all.
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And and then it was kinda like I I dn I
don't know,
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I agree with the answer he came up with.
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And for me the jokes didn't really land
that much.
Maybe he didn't want that maybe he didn't
want that smoke.
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He didn't want that smoke from K Dot.
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Right. I know.
So why do this? Like you you you went
after everyone else.
Well I
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you know, interestingly not it didn't
really go after LL.
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So I don't know. ~ No,
~ LL wasn't featured in it either.
Yeah.
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I think the impressions were funnier than
the jokes,
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and that's like not great for me.
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his Jay is great. No no argument.
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And his Russell Simmons is also great.
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But you know, this as a film, I think it
was this is better off
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as skits and sketches, like a feature
film.
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did not hold for me.
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I I agree. There was some parts where I'm
laughing,
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laughing, but it was even slow at parts,
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and I'm like, okay, what are they trying
to do here?
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Where's the overall message?
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There are parts where I was just like,
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man, like when when when they spoof like
Will Smith as Fresh Prince
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and just the title of he's like parents
just don't give a shit.
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Like that's great, that's great.
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You
Yeah.
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It it's almost like a a pack of Garbage Pail Kids or they came out with those things (yeah) called Wacky Packages and they would spoof
brands like Crest.
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Yeah, yeah. Th that was a level that was
the level. Okay, I get it. Yeah,
I get it. This one doesn't make sense.
something This one okay, this one funny.
Yeah, they're th I don't know, these are these
feel like first draft jokes
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and that was all we got and I don't know.
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It didn't work for me. A couple of things
I was amused,
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but I didn't catch myself laughing at
anything,
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which is not great for a parody film.
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I laughed a bit, ~ but not to the extent
of like a true spoof,
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like
the other spoof movies that we've seen,
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like Don't Sip Juice in South Central,
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you know, like ~ that one was great,
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Yeah, like I was thinking it 'cause I paid
I ended up paying four or five bucks
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to rent this streaming and I'm like,
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man, if I would have went to the theater
and paid the full amount,
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I probably would have been disappointed.
Ha ha
I'm like, Man, if I would have paid ten to
fifteen bucks,
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I'd be like,
Yeah.
Throw
us throw his soda at the screen.
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I can't get jiggy with this
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huh. Yeah.
Ha
ha ha ha. ~
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Ha ha ha.
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Yeah. Here's a one more thing that is on a more
serious note,
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Russell Simmons got in a lot of trouble
for sexual assault allegations.
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And that's not even in here at all.
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And so does parody spoofs kind of let this
off the hook?
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I don't know. I don't know if the answer
to that,
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but ~ it's the elephant in the room.
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And when you pair that with like the way
that women were portrayed in this film,
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like they were all kind of bitchy.
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Or or like out and out, bitchy?
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I don't know. it leaves something to be
desired.
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I wasn't sure why there weren't any
positive women characters that
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I could remember. so yeah. ~ I'm a little
uncomfortable about it. It did portray.
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Yeah, Queen Latifah and MC Lyte were
portrayed as a little bit nasty.
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Yeah, for some reason. I didn't think
about the Ratifah and MC Ryte They got
lazy. Yeah. Queen Ratifa, like w ~
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They're like, let's just change two of the
letters there.
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Let's change two letters like again, first draft jokes. Right.
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E even even Salt-n-Pepa had an attitude
when they had to come over to
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the table and bring the salt and pepper.
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Yeah. Yeah, that she had her period every week,
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like a little misogynistic. Like what are we doing here?
Yeah. That's true.
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this is not jiggy at all.
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go around and rate it, even though we know
some of the ratings here,
Yes. ~
but ~
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Boogie for a hip hop story,
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would you bring this funky flick back or
leave it at the vault?
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It is funny 'cause I I've actually said
this before on other films.
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I'm gonna watch it one more time and I'm
chucking it in the vault Mm. ~
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So in essence you're bringing the funky
flick back for now. Okay.
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Bring that funky flick back with an asterisk.
Okay. You've done that. You've done that one
before.
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Okay. Dyno Wright? Yeah. Shall I even ask? What do you do with this one?
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I'm gonna leave this in the vault. Sorry, Affion.
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I also will leave this one in the vault.
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Did get some laughs, but I'm good.
Yeah.
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I'm good with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks for playing the feud.
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Thank you for tuning haha
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Show 'em their parting gifts.
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Shout out to Richard Dawson. Okay.
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Thank you for tuning into Hip Hop Movie
Club,
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the show for serious hip-hop fans who want
to deepen their cultural knowledge.
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I'm Dyno Wright, filmmaker, designer,
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longtime hip-hop fan, and I highly
recommend Fab5 Freddy's new memoir,
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Everybody's Fly, A Life of Art,
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Music, and Changing the Culture.
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Especially the audiobook version read by
the man himself.
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Nice. I'm JB, eighties and nineties
nostalgia junkie,
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longtime hip hop fan. And one of my
favorite hip hop spoof skits of
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all time was when Jim Carrey mocked
Vanilla Ice on In Living Color.
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If you haven't seen that, please go watch
that.
Yeah.
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That's a good one. That's a good one.
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And I'm Boogie, a DJ, long-time hip hop
fan.
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And on this date of this recording,
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July 8th, Whodini released their debut
self-titled album.
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Yes.
Classic. Did that one have “Freaks Come Out at Night”?
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On that one, you think?
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I think no no, wait, Freaks Came Out at
night was on back was it the other one,
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the s the one after that. Yeah.
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Gotcha, gotcha, nice. No, Whodini
definitely a pioneer in the game way back
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in the day.
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And remember, don't hate...
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animate!
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So many characters. I love the nervous
laugh of Jay Z that he does
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the nervous laugh, that's so good.
That's good. His Jay is great. It is really good.
Yeah. Yeah.
I can't even do it.
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Yeah.
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Ha ha.
huh.
Yeah, very good.
That's it. ~
~ man.
Yeah. Hey.
Called him JB, like myself. I resemble
that's funny.
Yeah. Oops.
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Affion was like ~ he was like Eddie Murphy
or Arsenio Hull,
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like playing like dozens half dozen
characters or more.
Mm-hmm.
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I'm like I'm like, wait, was that is that
really him?
Yeah.
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That's him, yeah. He's doing that part,
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that part. Then you look at the credits,
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it's like Affion, Affion.
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Mm-hmm. Yes.
