On Wed, February 11, 2009 9:25 am, Jared Earle wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009, at 17:18, Roger Howard wrote: >> There seemed to be a higher quality overall in hiphop >> before it went entirely mainstream, but there's still a lot of great >> rappers out there. > > > Nothing against Rap in and of itself, it's just the inevitability a > movie will include a kid's rap or similar just to get around the fact > their stars can't sing and in a stupid attempt to be more 'street'. > Like watching your dad try to robot or pop at a wedding.
Ahh yes... this was, I think, kinda the opposite in that when the film was made, rap wasn't that mainstream that it could be a ploy to get street cred - it was actually meant to be shocking, at least to the uptight lobbyists and politicos who were confronted in the film. His rap (and other scenes) are part of a nervous breakdown, combined with falling in love with Halle Berry (as a child of Black Panthers, in the film), and having general identity confusion as a result of awakening to find himself a complete sellout to corporate concerns and out of touch with the people he thought were his constituents. Needless to say, the blacks in the film were less impressed by his lyrical skills, more amused to watch someone come so unhinged. Less about street cred, more about anti-Washington cred. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
