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PtldPlatypus said:
"42" was a biopic too. It was also a baseball movie. "Ali" was a biopic, and a boxing movie. "The Express" was a biopic, and a football movie.

Most movies can be classified in multiple categories. Dude.
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Fair enough.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Awe, c'mon! You telling me you didn't enjoy the exploits of Ice Cold, Tone Def, and Taste-E-Taste?
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Now THIS is the Rap movie! :lol:

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CB4 fucking sucked. High School high is the worst hip hop movie ever.

I want a 2 Live Crew movie.
 
Beat Street is the greatest Hip Hop movie of all time.
 
No shout out for hustle and flow? Terrence Howard was great in that
 
dviss1 said:
You gotta see Straight Outta Compton. It's far and above the best of all time.
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I did see Straight Outta Compton :) SOC is a superior film to Beat Street no doubt, but what I mean is that Beat Street is a better film about "Hip Hop Culture" (break dancing, rapping, graffiti, DJ'ing) whereas SOC is a bio pic focused on the origins of one genre of rap music. N.W.A. definitely has a much sexier and more cinematic story to tell, that is for sure.
 
When are they going to make a 2 Live Crew movie?
 
Luthor Campbell was on the James Altuschuer show, it certainly sounds like something that would be possible. It'd be awesome.
 
How many rap groups/rappers affected the culture enough, or have a story to tell, to warrant a bio pic? 2 Live Crew isn't worthy, imo. They do meet the freaked white people out prerequisite though.
 
GriLtCheeZ said:
How many rap groups/rappers affected the culture enough, or have a story to tell, to warrant a bio pic? 2 Live Crew isn't worthy, imo. They do meet the freaked white people out prerequisite though.
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Of course it is, it set groundbreaking cultural waves in the realm of freedom of speech. In my opinion, they are much more culturally relevant than NWA.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Of course it is, it set groundbreaking cultural waves in the realm of freedom of speech. In my opinion, they are much more culturally relevant than NWA.
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There probably is a movie there and you could put "Groundbreaking", "Cultural waves" "in the realm" on their direct to video release poster.

Freedom of speech is all their story is about. That is it. Oh wait, they brought the Bass!!! That is it.
 
Come on, don't you want to hear the story behind "Fuck Martinez!"?

 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Of course it is, it set groundbreaking cultural waves in the realm of freedom of speech. In my opinion, they are much more culturally relevant than NWA.
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You truly don't know what you're talking about here. You're completely wrong about this. NWA was the groundbreaking group when it came to freedom of speech. They were arrested on stage for singing fuck the police. 2 Live Crew is nowhere near the level of NWA.
 
dviss1 said:
You truly don't know what you're talking about here. You're completely wrong about this. NWA was the groundbreaking group when it came to freedom of speech. They were arrested on stage for singing fuck the police. 2 Live Crew is nowhere near the level of NWA.
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Sorry they didn't make a 2 Live Crew movie yet so you couldn't retroactively pretend you know what went on back in the 90s. I guess you really believe Eazy-E really made a truce with NWA too? God that's the problem with this movie, it was written from the perspective of Dre and Ice Cube and was obviously altered and people take it as what actually went on. We have people who couldn't even name 2 NWA songs outside of Fuck the Police and Straight Outta Compton pretending like they were down back in the day.

http://www.freep.com/story/entertai...ie-detroit-ice-cube-joe-louis-arena/31496317/

The 1989 Detroit Free Press story on the event said nine adults and nine juveniles were arrested on misdemeanor charges outside the concert. It described a heavy police presence around Joe Louis and quoted Executive Deputy Police Chief James Bannon as saying N.W.A began to perform “F--- tha Police” that night even though the promoters agreed it wouldn’t be included.

“The song was not finished and band representatives couldn’t be reached to explain why,” said the story. An Olympia Arenas executive was quoted as saying the concert “seemed like a lot of the rap shows we’ve done ... nothing extraordinary.”

A few months later, a 1989 story about N.W.A by London’s Guardian newspaper reported that the police stormed the stage to prevent N.W.A from doing the profanely titled song. “The band was escorted to their hotel by more officers, one of whom reportedly said, ‘We just wanted to show the kids that you can’t say ‘F--- the police’ in Detroit.’ ”

Early this month, the Daily Beast did a fact check of “Straight Outta Compton” and presented another wrinkle to the story, drawing from a memoir by former manager Jerry Heller (portrayed in the film by Paul Giamatti).

“The members of N.W.A. were hustled away from the arena by their security and whisked off to the safety of their hotel rooms — only to be arrested later when they sneaked down to the lobby to meet girls, according to Heller.”
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The 2 Live Crew's controversy was a major freedom of speech case. Their albums were BANNED and classified as obscene. They were taken off shelves by law.
They went to the 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court.
 
See, when 2 Live Crew got arrested at a concert, it actually made the major news as there was actually a very public trial.
Without a serious disagreement among them, six jurors took only about two hours Saturday to eat lunch and then find three members of the rap group 2 Live Crew not guilty of violating obscenity laws in a nightclub concert performance.

The verdict caused an eruption of cheers from fans of the Miami-based singers who packed the courtroom, and dealt a defeat to local Sheriff Nick Navarro's efforts to prosecute the group, whose best-selling album had been declared obscene by a federal court judge only four days before the concert.

"Our first and strongest impression was that this is political," said juror Helena Bailie, 76, a retired sociology professor. "They were thumbing their noses back (at Broward County and Navarro)."

At issue was a June 10 concert at a Hollywood, Fla., nightclub during which the group performed four songs from the album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be." The songs contain crude and graphic sexual language.
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"Winning this particular case will do little to derail those trying to reap political benefit off the current anti-free-expression atmosphere," Berman said by telephone from his Washington office. "We're all glad 2 Live Crew won, but no one in the business has any illusions that the war is over. We have to keep fighting."

Carl Freed, executive director of the North American Concert Promoters Assn., applauded the verdict as a victory for free speech.

"The decision eases some of the tensions for promoters who produce live concerts by controversial acts," Freed said in a phone interview from New York. "Even if we, as concert promoters, do not approve of the material Mr. Campbell performs, we believe the government has no business deciding what adults can or cannot listen to."

Jack Thompson, the Coral Gables, Fla., anti-obscenity crusader who initiated the national campaign against 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" album last January, blamed weak prosecution for the trial's outcome.

"This verdict in no way diminishes the fact that Luther Campbell is guilty of distributing more than 2 million obscene albums and deserves to go to jail," Thompson said Saturday night. "All this ruling does is send a message to law enforcement agencies around the country that they must secure better evidence and build stronger cases if they truly want to make a dent in stopping obscenity."

Leanne Katz, executive director of the New York-based National Coalition Against Censorship, cautioned against celebration.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-21/news/mn-4279_1_live-crew
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
See, when 2 Live Crew got arrested at a concert, it actually made the major news as there was actually a very public trial.



http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-21/news/mn-4279_1_live-crew
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I hear ya, but do you expect them to get a film treatment like The People vs. Larry Flynt or something? Is there enough of a story to tell about them other than getting arrested on stage, going to court, and then being able to talk about popping pussies whenever they want? I liked them when I was a kid and if a movie ever gets made I'll watch it.
 
It was a pretty big deal and lasted several years, the governor of florida seemed to have a personal vendetta.

that whole miami bass scene was pretty interesting in itself.
 
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