Beanie Sigel plays wannabe drug kingpin "Beans" in this 2002 crime film from the Roc-A-Fella conglomerate. Jay-Z and several members of the State Property rap group appear in the film. You either get down or you lay down.

Topics discussed:

• The movie is violent and brutal. 
• There are copious amounts of nudity, and right from the jump. 
• There is no real character development or plot line for that matter. 
• Jay-Z's talents are wasted in this film, as his role is brief and consists mostly of mumbles.
• The soundtrack may be the sole highlight of this film, and just barely. 

Also check out:

Norm MacDonald's bit on Hot Property from "Star Search"

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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 State

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starring some early members of the

Roc-A-Fella Records conglomerate,

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including a small role by Jay-Z.

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We're 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 my favorite part

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of DMX's video for What's My Name?

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is the two seconds that Jay-Z shows up in.

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

longtime hip-hop fan, and I rate Beanie

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Sigel's Rock the Mic among my top 100

hip-hop tracks of all time.

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

and I'm so excited.

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Because I just found a spot to repair and

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I'm going back to vinyl.

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Yes.

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In this episode, we'll answer the

question, is State Property worth

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watching?

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And we'll give you five takeaways to make

you a smarter hip hop movie fan.

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Here are the five takeaways.

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Number one, the movie is violent and

brutal.

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Number two, there are copious amounts of

nudity and right from the jump.

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Number three, there's no real character

development or plot line for that matter.

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Number four, Jay-Z's talents are wasted in

this film as his role is brief.

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and consists mostly of mumbles.

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And number five, the soundtrack may be the

sole highlight of this film and just

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barely.

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All right, so you may be able to tell from

takeaways that this one has its issues.

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Boogie, I know you said you had seen this

one way back when it came out and really

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theme throughout is the brutality of it

all.

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You want to talk a bit about that?

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Yeah, so yeah, I remember when this movie

first came out and coincidentally, it was

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a part of my DVD collection.

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So it's definitely a violent movie.

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It takes place in Philadelphia and the

main character, Beans, is portrayed by

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Beanie Sigel and his right -hand man, Baby

Boy.

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And actually the whole crew is comprised

of members of State Property, the Philly

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group.

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minus Freeway and Peedii Crakk who were

legally predisposed from appearing in the

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film.

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We'll leave it at that.

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But it basically, Beans, he wants to

become like a drug kingpin because he's

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tired of being broke.

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And he gets his boys, his crew together

and they just basically start on a war

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path, if you will, to take over each

neighborhood of Philadelphia and

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surrounding areas to set up their empire.

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And along the way, they're, they just,

it's cold blooded.

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Whoever's in their way, if you don't get

down, you lay down and that's the mantra

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that they go by.

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And you see throughout this film, various

members of rival crews are basically just

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wiped out.

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And he's established his soldiers, if you

will, in those areas where people have

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worked for them.

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And then he starts.

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to build his empire and bring in more

money.

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But yeah, they start off, like I said,

taking out the rival crews.

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One guy, Futch, they, I mean, Beans just

brutally beat him with a bat and they just

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tossed him in a dumpster.

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I mean, even in the first scene of the

movie, Blizz,

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portrayed by Memphis Bleek just shoots

somebody in the strip club.

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And Blizz is basically the one who goes on

the war.

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He shoots a few people throughout the

movie.

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You know, Beans even, you know, takes out

violence on his own crew.

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You know, he shoots one of his guys E in

the hand because he talked back a little

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bit.

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And, you know, yeah, it's just a whole lot

of violence.

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I mean, you know, the violent shooting of

one of the...

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members who wouldn't, he actually wasn't

even a member of a crew.

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He was just kind of caught in the middle.

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It didn't respond quick enough.

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And you know, he was brutally shot about

five or six times.

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There's a shootout at a basketball game in

broad daylight, killing members of a rival

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crew.

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You know, People are getting robbed left

and right and in the robberies, they're

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not even getting spared, they're getting

killed.

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So if they're carrying drugs.

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They're killed, they're carrying money,

they're killed.

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And all of this is taken back to Beans to

feed his empire.

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Then we see some retaliation from another

crew where the boss of another crew played

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by Dame Dash actually kidnaps Beans'

girlfriend and her friend while at the

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club and executes the friend while Beans

is on the phone as a, you know.

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If you don't respond to what I'm asking

for, it was basically a ransom for his

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girlfriend.

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This is going to happen to her.

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Actually, his exact words were, she might

get sent back pregnant.

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And then, but still, it's just like, what?

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And I understand what was happening

because I have seen these type of things

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happen in other movies.

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But it was just the brutality of it all.

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We got to point it out.

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If you have a weak stomach for violence,

this is not your film.

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Yeah.

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Definitely, yeah.

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Brutal, brutally violent, senseless.

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I mean, all murders are senseless in my

opinion, but this was beyond senseless.

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It's kind of like, get down or lay down.

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I thought that was even like a lame

tagline.

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It's kind of like, so it's kind of like

equivalent to like, it's my way or the

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highway.

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Boom.

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Man, I had a lot of issues with this.

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Even Old head Futch

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Futch being beat to a pulp.

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It was just nasty, like stomach turning.

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And they just try to recruit the guys.

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If someone refuses to join them, they just

shoot and kill the young guy.

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That rival was named Butter.

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And I'm like, hey, Butter and Beans?

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Was that that boxer guy?

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I'm just kidding.

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Butter Beans.

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But I'd rather watch Butter Bean.

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Yeah, that was...

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have been more entertaining.

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It was rough.

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Dyno Wright, what are your initial

thoughts here about the violence and

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overall themes?

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there's using it to make a point and

there's just like, just dousing this with

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wanton violence for no reason.

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There wasn't much writing happening in

this movie, so sure, let's just have

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everybody get shot up.

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They didn't put much thought into this.

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It's like they didn't have any other

crayons they didn't have any other colors

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in their palette.

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Like, let's just shoot them.

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And you think with that much violence

happening for no reason, there wasn't like

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more repercussions.

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Like, you could just go around shooting

people and not suffer any consequences

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until like, you know, 80 minutes into the

film.

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real logical sense.

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None of this made any sense.

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What were you gonna say?

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a lot of surveillance was out there and

the proliferation of the cell phones with

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the cameras.

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So yeah, not realistic in today's day and

age, but yeah.

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that time.

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People just don't get shot up and nothing

happens.

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You wouldn't find out it was Beans after

all.

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Maybe, perhaps the police don't really

care that much about these lives, but

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someone in that world is gonna come after

Beans because it's not gonna be a big

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secret like who killed Futch?

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That happened in broad daylight.

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Yeah, there's DNA evidence all over the

place too.

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And if he's on the come up, there are

other established crews out there, like,

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whoa, this didn't attract anyone else's

attention.

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This movie should have lasted five

minutes.

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I think how they show Dame and his crew,

the old heads, they show them and he's

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like, yeah, look at these guys.

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They're all just kind of sitting around,

they're laughing, they're joking,

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everything is all sweet and everything.

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Because basically they weren't even,

nobody was responding.

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You're right, you're right.

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If all of this was happening in the

streets, they should have probably proper

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somebody.

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caught somebody's attention like, hey,

look at what the heck is going on over

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there.

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Like not even just the police, but like

other crews would have been like, okay,

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like what's going on here?

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Maybe we need to like get ready or arm

ourselves and like nothing happened like

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that.

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Yeah, you know, they didn't put much

thought into this.

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So like, figuring out like the

repercussions of their actions, like, they

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didn't even consider it.

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Why would they?

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This movie, like, didn't make any sense at

all anyhow.

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I remember like the late 80s and the 90s

when the crack first hit the streets and

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there was a lot of violence between crew

hoos because people were trying to make

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that quick money.

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But something would happen and like

immediately like the next day there would

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be retaliation.

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Like the war would last, like, you know,

like things would happen in the span of a

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few days.

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This was stretched out over a span of like

years and yeah.

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It wasn't...

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People's reactions weren't in sync.

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Something, yeah.

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shallowly written, written very shallow

and sure, anything goes.

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Sure.

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Climb to the top like real quick.

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like one big massacre that continued and

continued and continued.

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as a serial killer, but like, there was no

like attention paid to him.

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Right.

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so another takeaway that you mentioned

that, or I, when we came up with was there

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are copious amounts of nudity and right

from the jump.

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So that's just kind of maybe PSA.

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If you're watching this, you might be

shocked to see that, or you might enjoy

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seeing that.

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yeah, exactly.

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But it's one of those things that's like,

Hey, we could do what we want with this

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film.

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So we're going to do a lot of violence and

we're going to do a lot of nudity and.

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was kind of like what they did.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, I mean, not that much more about

that.

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Right, right.

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Definitely a lot of nudity as well.

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definitely one of those things where they

did it because they could, not because

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they should.

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Right.

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it didn't really add to the plot line.

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No, it was just.

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way high expectation for a movie like

this.

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Things make sense?

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Things should serve a story?

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First you gotta have a story.

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No story here.

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A lot of frequenting the strip clubs and a

lot of random women just sitting around

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with no clothes on for no reason.

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Yeah.

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the player's lifestyle that they wanted to

portray.

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The takeaway number three is there was not

any real character development or plot

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line.

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I know BooGie you did summarize kind of

what happened, but my big gripe with this

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was we don't really know about Bean's

upbringing or backstory.

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It's just like, hey, we wanna have the

American dream and we're just gonna take

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it into our own hands.

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our own hands.

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Are we supposed to like him?

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Are we supposed to root for him?

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I don't know.

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You know, I didn't really have a

connection with him either way.

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It's like, I don't know.

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It's like a lot of times with these crime

dramas, it's actually like a drama where

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it's like, man, he's doing some bad

things, but I can see where things went

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awry and he's kind of a good kid.

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And like, I hope that he...

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finds a way out of it somehow and comes to

a sense that in this case there was none

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of that.

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It was just like, this is a bad dude.

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He's doing bad things.

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Yeah.

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Set It Off as a prime example of that.

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You can see why they were put in a

position they were in.

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Yeah, an actual good film.

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An actual, like, real story.

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Yeah, stuff was, you know, things were

stacked against them.

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Yeah, we just saw them in a strip club.

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He's like, I'm tired of being broke.

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Well, you're broke because you're in a

strip club.

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Like, what?

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No, the whole thing is just so...

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I read a review that it...

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it looked like they wrote this in a

weekend, like they put the whole thing

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together in a weekend.

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This is like the kind of things you do,

the shortcuts you take when you only do

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things over 48 hours.

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Yeah, it's like, you know, we signed a

group out of Philly called State Property.

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We're just gonna get them all together,

get them a script, and put them in a

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movie.

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It's gonna be like one long video with no

music.

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Yeah, I'm sure there are music videos.

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I'm sure there are music videos that are

more character development than this

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movie.

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Yeah, I mean, I'm at a loss.

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That was a good comparison Boogie with Set

It Off where we discussed it in depth.

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It's like they're doing horrible things

with these bank heists, but the system had

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oppressed them so much and they had

personal experience and we understand why

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it happened.

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And there's some situations where, you

know, there's, there's a child involved

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and they want to get the better life and

they felt that there was no other, this

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was just like, Hey,

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Let's do this.

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You know, I don't know what know what is.

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It's like, at the end, not to give it

away.

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It's like, they're going to remember my

name.

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It's like, okay, but like, did you leave

some sort of legacy that people should be

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proud of?

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Or you're just like another statistic

of...

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you know, misguided individual.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, the the only thing anybody

will remember is, like, this dude was

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crazy enough to have a shootout in a court

room.

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That was such a...

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That was such a...

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Where you gonna go?

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That was the rancid cherry on a rotted

icing of a sundae.

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Just like the dumbest thing that happened

in the dumbest movie I've ever seen.

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You realize you can't get out, right?

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You know, like the courthouse, there's

like an unlimited supply of police

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officers that's gonna come storming in.

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You can't get out.

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The only thing this movie needed was a

stunt double that was completely wrong

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age, like in Breakin' 2, and a mannequin

that falls down the stairs like in Breakin

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2.

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That would have made it complete.

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You imagine like having like in the

shootout scene, see like a random white

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guy with cornrows run by.

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With blonde cornrows.

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That's not mean.

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as a comedy, I think.

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Yeah, like a Scooby -Doo episode where

they take a mask off Beanie Seagull and

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it's some 80 -year -old white dude.

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Like, wait.

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All right, now it's interesting.

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I would have gotten away with it too, with

a few damn rappers.

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man.

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man.

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So in the end, the assassin, so Dame

Dash's boss is the assassin, like shoots

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Beans, right?

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And so we see him like ostensibly dying on

that table, but then there's a State

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Property 2 and he lives.

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Like what?

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Yeah, so...

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Does he live in the second?

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Is he in the second one?

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But is it his ghost?

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What's going on here?

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in like, I think they were trying to say,

if I can remember correctly, that whole

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scenario with the shootout was in his head

and it didn't really happen.

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And he was sentenced to go to prison.

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it was a dream.

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He wake up like Bob Newhart next to

Suzanne Pleshette.

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And like, ah, it was just a dream.

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That's even better.

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Every movie should end with Bob Newhart

waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette.

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People our age barely know what that

means.

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The young people look up Bob Newhart and

Suzanne Pleshette.

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And even the assassin was a Roc-A-Fella

artist.

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That was Amil, who was part of the Roc

crew and never really got the shine like

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she should have, because she actually did

have some lyrics, but that's besides the

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point.

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What are you gonna do?

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We're not gonna put you in these songs,

we're gonna put you in a small cameo in

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this film.

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Yeah, you're going to be the assassin.

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me the assassin forget that you're a you

can rap we're gonna put you in a small

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film as an assassin

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Yeah, more misuse of talent.

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More wasted talent.

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segue into takeaway number four was

Jay-Z's talents were wasted in this film

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as his role was brief and consisted mostly

of mumbles.

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I didn't get that.

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I was like, ooh, Jay-Z, save this film.

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He didn't.

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Hmm?

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Hmm?

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He made a business decision, man.

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Not to do anything.

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Like, that's the thing.

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Like, There's no character development, so

you don't know why he mumbles.

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There's nothing.

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It's like, let's have him mumble.

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Sure.

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Okay.

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Whatever.

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Yeah.

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you can You can get a sense from the way

Dame consults him that they're at least at

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the same level and the crew or Jay might

be at a higher level, but he's not even

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paying attention to what Dame's Dame's

He's like, I think I need a a What?

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It was bizarre.

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It was kind of like, you're going to take

care of that, right?

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You're going to, you know, why don't you,

why don't you just like kidnap them?

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brilliant idea.

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Let me get, like, it was just like, what?

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I didn't get it.

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they didn't tell him the camera was

rolling.

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Just do what he's like.

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Yeah, just be yourself.

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What?

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I mean, Dame Dash, for a movie of this

quality, such as it is, I think he was

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trying.

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The only one who was trying.

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Yeah, he tried.

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Yeah

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is like he put up like double digit points

but in a game where the team scored like

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64 points and they got blown out like 140

to 60.

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I mean, that was rough.

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You have Jay-Z who is a deity in the

hip-hop world and his talents are wasted.

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Even back then, right?

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He was a megastar already.

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Yeah.

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I said they were definitely established.

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He was established back then, the label

was established and yeah.

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I did enjoy seeing Jacob the Jeweler.

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He needs his own movie.

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His life must be a whole movie.

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Hehehehe

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Yeah, there were a few cameos in the

movie.

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Jacob the jeweler.

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DJ Clue had a small cameo.

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He was informed, Dame that C-Zer was shot.

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I was like, yeah.

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And then finally, the soundtrack might be

the sole highlight of the film, but just

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barely because Roc the Mic, as I said in

my intro, that's a great song.

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And it's an opening scene with the strip

club and that's a great song.

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Other than that, Sparks was the artist on

a lot of the songs.

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It's not a really memorable soundtrack

except for Roc the Mic, in my opinion.

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Do you guys pick up anything else in the

soundtrack?

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I mean, I heard a couple of songs playing

in the movie that aren't on the

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soundtrack.

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I know there was a scene where Beans

rolled up to Butter's crew and informed

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one of the guys to have Butters get in

contact with him.

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And in that scene, I heard in the

background, Ola Hovito playing.

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And I was like, okay, yeah, that's my

song.

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But I'm like, that's not on the

soundtrack.

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Okay.

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then there was another instance when

Dame's crew was in the club and Aisha and

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the girls were in the club and Dame sent

the bottle over to them.

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The song Beanie was playing and I actually

do like that song.

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But yeah, that's not on the soundtrack

either.

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So I was like, huh, okay.

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Got a bunch of Spark joints.

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It's like a Spark vehicle.

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Everybody gets to eat tonight.

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State Property movie.

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I didn't even listen to the soundtrack.

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this movie wasn't worth my time as it was.

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Man, so speaking of like reviews, this got

literally zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes,

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which is hard to do.

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I was looking at some other films that got

zero percent.

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Return to the Blue Lagoon, like Police

Academy 6: City Under Siege.

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Derailed, One Missed Call.

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So many stuff that you never heard of

probably.

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Not familiar with Derailed or One Missed

Call.

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Yeah, there's a bunch of them.

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This made I Got the Hook Up look like

Saving Private Ryan.

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That's a good one.

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I mean this, oof.

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Yeah, the AV Club had a really great line

in their review.

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It said, in any given scene about half the

characters sport clothes from the rap

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mogul's Roca Wear line, making State

Property seem like the world's bloodiest

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infomercial.

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Nah.

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Yeah, they would definitely dipped out in

a rock Roca Wear gear.

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Definitely were.

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And I think I remember seeing other rival

people in different gear.

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I thought I saw Phat Farm and I thought I

saw Sean John.

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Maybe it was Phat Farm but I think that

wasn't an accident.

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They actually put some thought into that

instead of the actual plot or character

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development.

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Yeah.

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It's so funny.

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I remember back in the day, like I had, I

used to have like, I used to have State

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Property gear.

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Yeah.

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It was actually good quality stuff too.

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Like it was nice, but you know, it faded

with Roca Wear.

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Roca Wear started fading, State Property

fade.

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It might've faded before Roca Wear but

yeah, I had State Property gear.

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Like State Property, like hoodies and.

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sweat suits and t -shirts.

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The whole time I was, it kept reminding me

of Hot Property from Star Search.

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Remember Star Search?

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With Ed McMahon.

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I remember Star Search, the talent show.

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What was the hot property aspect of it?

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They're one of the acts that would

compete.

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Norm MacDonald has a great bit about Hot

Property.

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I'll put that in this episode description.

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It's so good.

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More old head stuff.

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First, we're talking about Bob Newhart.

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They were talking about Star Search with

Ed McMahon.

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it's more entertaining than this film.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, remember I was...

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I had Malibu's Most Wanted as my least

favorite.

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This gives it...

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a run for its money.

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As my least favorite.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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reverse.

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The backside of Mount Rushmore like has to

be on this.

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Ha ha.

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The WOAT.

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W -O -A -T.

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You

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Alright.

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Well, any other tidbits anybody want to

add?

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I'm shocked that Beanie Sigel's jail time

didn't involve this movie.

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Like, he didn't get put in jail because of

this movie.

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Somehow he skated on this movie.

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That was rough.

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It was tough to watch.

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I watched it in two parts and I was like

wondering.

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I'm glad it was just a little over an hour

and a half, I think.

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Mercifully.

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I'm telling you, this movie should have

lasted five minutes.

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Yeah, let's give the ratings.

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Interested to hear your view BooGie since

you've seen it back and had enjoyed it

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more so when you first saw it.

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But what is your rating for State

Property?

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Bring that funky flick back or leave it in

the vault.

486

So despite the fact that I enjoyed

watching this when I was younger, I'm

487

going to leave it in the vault.

488

Yeah.

489

Right.

490

Roc fanboy back in the day, but yeah, not

so much now.

491

I can't overlook this one.

492

Yeah, can't all be winners, I guess.

493

That all right.

494

I don't think I need to ask, but your

rating on State Property, bring that funky

495

flick back or leave it in the vault.

496

Leave it in the vault.

497

Remember that horse in Ren and Stimpy?

498

Who'd always come out and say, No sir, I

didn't like it.

499

That was me.

500

man.

501

told Craig Sager to burn his suit?

502

Like the clothes he was wearing right

then?

503

Burn it?

504

Not to wait?

505

Just burn it?

506

I think Kevin Garnett should come and tell

them to burn this movie.

507

Just don't wait.

508

Just burn this movie.

509

man.

510

I have this.

511

Yeah, I have a similar similar feeling.

512

Leave this one in the vault.

513

State property should be landfill

property.

514

Put it in landfill.

515

But wait, there's more!

516

State Property 2: Electric Boogaloo coming

soon.

517

The fact that this got a sequel is beyond

me.

518

Again, just because you could doesn't mean

you should Maybe the stunt double that's

519

completely wrong and like the mannequin

falling down the stairs is in State

520

Property 2.

521

I look forward to that I'm hoping for that

522

We ran random cameos from stunt guys.

523

Hahaha.

524

I would like Boogaloo Shrimp to show up in

this movie.

525

Ricardo Montalban, maybe he could show up

in this movie.

526

State Property 2: The Wrath of Khan.

527

Heheheheh

528

my god.

529

Instead of putting those little things

that he put in the ears, he just put them

530

in my eyes.

531

Get over with.

532

Hmm.

533

man.

534

What's worse than straight to video?

535

Straight to the recycle bin?

536

Yeah.

537

Oof.

538

There's so much better content out there.

539

That's a lot of times my justification for

leaving in the vault.

540

There's so much better content out there.

541

Just find other.

542

Yeah, life's too short to spend it

watching this movie.

543

This is why we do this.

544

This is like a public service.

545

We watched this movie, so you didn't have

to, dear listener.

546

Yeah.

547

Uhhh...

548

You still have the DVD, Boogie?

549

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I do because I had a

whole, like, I don't know, to this day I

550

still don't know why, but I like watching

crime movies.

551

So I'm pretty sure I still have it in my

storage unit with the rest of my crime

552

movies.

553

Yeah, I mean there's a lot of crimes in

this movie.

554

This movie itself is probably a crime, but

again, Beanie didn't do any jail time for

555

it.

556

Yeah, I had like this, New Jack City, King

of New York, Carlitos Way, Scarface, all

557

those movies.

558

I had a whole bunch.

559

I have the full game.

560

And then State Property.

561

Yeah, with the classics.

562

It's a masterpiece.

563

You needed something to put your drink on.

564

man.

565

Hehehehe.

566

Yeah, if you ever get a chance to see the

second one, it's got more holes in it than

567

this one.

568

You should just watch it to giggle.

569

We should.

570

How many times can we can we can we rank

on this movie?

571

The second one has a lot of cameos in this

they got a bigger budget this movie didn't

572

do too bad though because At the time like

this Roc was at the top of their game So

573

people went to see it.

574

We were watching it.

575

He will got watched it just because of who

was in it You know

576

that totally.

577

I mean...

578

You know, these guys are on tour.

579

They got videos everywhere.

580

They're on all the radio stations and in

the clubs.

581

And then they put out a movie.

582

That's how I got caught.

583

I was a fan boy.

584

Mm -hmm.

585

your $12 like it was back in the day?

586

Sure.

587

Mindless is entertainment for 90 minutes.

588

Emphasis on mindless.

589

when you have the level of clout and Jay-Z

and it's his conglomerate, like he could

590

take a dump, wrap it in foil and somebody

would buy it.

591

That's kind of what this is.

592

man.

593

Pretty much.

594

Yeah, it was not a cinematic triumph.

595

and not worth most people's time.

596

I'm opposed to watching the sequel.

597

I don't know.

598

It's torturous.

599

man, how low can you go?

600

more likely stretch the meaning of hip-hop

movie to include the likes of like Pee

601

Wee's Big Adventure or something.

602

There's gotta be some link to hip-hop.

603

Let's watch that.

604

a song called The Pee-Wee Herman.

605

Yeah, see, there we go.

606

a Pee Wee Herman.

607

There we go.

608

Right.

609

Do the Pee Wee Herman.

610

Yeah, exactly.

611

Yeah.

612

That's a tie in, right?

613

Not that that version was in the film, but

yeah, I'm just using as example.

614

Like.

615

Yeah, no, I mean, maybe we won't, but boy,

boy, this was, this was something.

616

Yeah.

617

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focus on higher quality film.

625

past this movie.

626

yeah.

627

Focus on something other than what we just

talked about.

628

That's right.

629

Sad trumpet.

630

totally Womp Womp.

631

man, God bless the Roc.

632

He's a business man.

633

man.

634

I wonder if Jay-Z has any regrets about

the film.

635

I mean, yeah.

636

I mean, I guess people gotta start

somewhere.

637

I mean, who knew by then, who knew then he

was gonna be a billionaire?

638

from a have not to a have got.

639

I kinda like that.

640

That was kinda clever, like, that should

have been someone's lyric, right?

641

One of the, actually, he did have a line

in a movie that I did hear in one of his

642

lyrics.

643

He said, the streets is not only watching,

but they're talking now.

644

That's in...

645

It's in a Roc La Familia album.

646

But I can't remember which song it is

though.

647

But Beanie Sigel will come on at the end

and he says that he starts off with that.

648

I'm like, hey, I know that line.

649

It was easy for him because he already did

it.

650

Yeah, when you're stage name is Beanie

Sigel and then they make a movie and they

651

call you Beans in the movie, that tells

you how much work they put into this.

652

Hahaha.

653

I mean, let's just call them Beans.

654

Let's show some range here.

655

beans.

656

Woof.

657

And I said it was based on, this was based

on true events.

658

So then I went back and I was looking at

like Beanie Sigel's history.

659

I was like, I hope this wasn't his full

story.

660

It's not, I don't know.

661

Jones and the Junior Black Mafia.

662

Yeah, that's about it.

663

I can't imagine that that story had to be

much better than this one.