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Okay.

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.