Posted on 19 November 2008 by STaT
Tracklist:
01. intro 01:55
02. undisputed (co-starring floyd “money” mayweather) 04:33
03. wish you would (co-starring t.i.) 04:47
04. one more drink (co-starring t-pain) 03:41
05. call up the homies (co-starring the game and willy northpole) 04:04
06. southern gangsta (co-starring rick ross, playaz circle and ving rhames) 04:34
07. everybody hates chris (co-starring chris rock) 04:54
08. what them girls like (co-starring chris brown and sean garrett) 04:02
09. nasty girl (co-starring plies) 04:32
10. contagious (co-starring jamie foxx) 04:45
11. last of a dying breed (co-starring lil wayne) 04:10
12. mvp 03:50
13. i do it for hip hop (co-starring nas and jay-z) 05:22
14. do the right thang (co-starring common and spike lee) 05:11
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Posted on 08 April 2007 by Mike
André Benjamin and Antoine A. Patton–aka Andre 3000 and Big Boi of the hip-hop duo Outkast–star in this uproarious period piece, a comedy-drama-musical-action film set in Prohibition-era Virginia. Patton plays Rooster, the lead singer at a raucous, high-class all-black club called Church. Benjamin plays Percival, his best friend, who is the piano player at the club and the shy son of a funeral parlor owner (played by Ben Vereen). Terence Howard (HUSTLE AND FLOW) provides the menace as Trumpy, a vicious underling of Rooster’s bootlegger father (Ving Rhames). Meanwhile, a beautiful singer (Paula Patton) comes to town and Percival finds himself falling in love–much to his terror, as he’s afraid to leave the small community of Idlewild for the big city: Chicago, her next stop. As Rooster prepares for a showdown with Trumpy, Percival faces his fears, the band heats up, and the guns and songs come out for a big final night at the Church.
This is clearly a labor of love for writer/director Brian Barber and the Outkast crew: a color-saturated adrenalin rush of witty dialogue, loving attention to period detail, boisterous and athletic dancing, and lots of eye-popping digital animation (such as Rooster’s talking/singing whiskey flask). Appearing in a bevy of diamond-studded cameos and bit parts are Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Cedric the Entertainer, Patti LaBelle, Jackie Long, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, and child rapper Bobb’e J. Thompson, who is hilarious–and demonstrates some very fancy footwork–as the young Rooster.
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Posted on 06 April 2007 by Mike
Adrian Lyne’s JACOB’S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña). Louis (Danny Aiello), an understanding chiropractor, tries to help him cope with his nightmarish visions–some of which occur at night, while others intrude into his daily life. When Jacob gets a call from Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who was with him in Vietnam, it seems that Jacob is not alone in his visions. The film offers impressive and compelling performances by Peña, Aiello (no ordinary chiropractor), and Ving Rhames and Eriq La Salle (the latter of ER) as Jacob’s comrades from Vietnam. Macaulay Culkin appears uncredited as Jacob’s young son, Gabe. Director Lyne also guides an unerring interpretation of Bruce Joel Rubin’s screenplay in Robbins’s powerfully restless, searingly searching performance as Jacob; brilliant editing additionally rounds out this engrossing, disturbing film. JACOB’S LADDER is a jolting experience that is not easily forgotten.
