You have to be honest, most of them ARE crappy rappers. You don't see Rakim, MC Lyte, KRS One, or the like in many of those flicks.


Although I love DMX, in his movies and music.

No they're not. Not all of them

2Pac, Notorius Big, Nas, Talib Kweli, Jay Z, Mos Def, Eminem, Common, Run DMc, Whodini, Grandmaster Flash, Jadakiss, etc and countless others. Anything from 1998 going forward is mostly garbage besides anything made by some of these people. Not all of their tracks (besides a few) are mindblowing, but from a wholistic standpoint, they are.

Well it must be hard to see things clearly thru your stupid hat

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Well I thought we were talking about the ones in general...not the ones in movies,,,and some of you guys may be suprised...but a few of them are well educated. This new rapper (I don't like him but anyway) named plies graduated from FSU and Paul Wall University of Houston with degrees in business and industrial engineering.

Ice Cube and Ice T are solid actors and great "rappers".

Disagree. I think rap is shit.

What is shit? That's it? You offer no premise? No foundation for a logical argument? Just "shit" ? Ok, that's fine. I'll acknowledge your opinion.

However I believe the title of this thread was addressing demographic assertions behind Black people and horror. And in no disrespect to you I think we should go back to that--not positive if the person whom created the thread would appreciate the back and forth tangents.

I have a theory about all of the "Scary Movie" movies (and even the movies that they have influenced: "Date Movie," "Epic Movie," "Meet the Spartans," etc.):

They're made by black people (the Wayans Brothers) for black people, and not only that, but they make the assumption that the audience is ridiculously stupid. Talk about negative black stereotypes (from black people shouting insipid things at a movie screen in Scary movie to black people "pimping their rides" in the form of remaking Alyson Hannigan in Date movie) perpetuated and expressed in those movies.

I take offense at those movies (their assumption that the audience is a bunch of slack-jawed morons) and I'm not even black.

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In terms of intellectual African American cinema, I think that Spike Lee is absolutely brilliant (Do The Right Thing being one of my all-time favorite films and what I see as a poignant study of racial relations). Wonder what a Spike Lee horror movie would be like.

Digital Underground, De La Soul, NAS, Wu Tang Clan, Bone Thugs, etc... there's plenty of good rap and hip hop out there but you don't usually see it in the mainstream. Mainstream rap sucks for the most part but to dismiss the genre completely is a bit harsh. Oops, you mentioned Nas...

Have go agree with LC there. I'd add Kanye West into that bunch, too. I think that 2Pac and Eminem are absolute poets. Watching quality freestyle rapping gives me goosebumps.