I'm halfway through this in my English class and I was laughing at the crappy rap throughout the film. The best one so far is in the basketball game where it is something like "I'm blacker the my grand daddy's chair, blacker than a blackberry pie, blacker than the dot in my eye." It was 100% serious too.
shareThe song is called"Astronomy(8th Light)" By a group called Black Star, which consists of Mos Def( from the movie "16 Blocks") and Talib Kweli... A very good hip hop song for fans of intelligent and creative hip hop(not the crap forced down the youth's throat on MTV.) I'm sure if you understood the song you would gain maybe a moderate appreciation to the lyrics and the message. I personally thought it went perfectly with the circumstances of the scene and the imagery. To each his own though...
What other crappy rap was in the film? I thought the soundtrack contained very good hip hop music, which should be representing the genre of rap and hip hop instead of the garbage that Clear Channel/MTV/BET broadcast all day.
Black like my baby girl's stare
Black like the veil that the muslimina wear
Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared?
Black like the slave ship that later brought us here
Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears
that leave black faces well traveled with years
Black like assassin crosshairs
Blacker than my granddaddy armchair
He never really got no time to chill there
Cause this life is warfare, warfare
.......does not sound crappy to me. pretty preceptive and soulful actually.
I agree with the above poster. If you hear the whole thing and think about it I'd say it it's definitely perceptive and soulful. Maybe even prolific. It's saying something, it doesn't seem like they just threw a bunch of crap together just so it would rhyme. Just think about it.
I have to return some video tapes...
I think some of these songs should have been edited!
The nas song where he kept saying the "N" word was annoying me I feel like
some of the songs and the message and the real meaning can not be expressed
well because the "N" word is said every other line and we(our race)sometimes
come across as stupid and all we know is curse words and deragatory statments
I hope I don't offend anyone just my thoughts
just makes me pissy and aggravated!
To me that was the only song that fit with the movie(the Outkast one Aquimeni fit too ) the score really left me unsettled it wouldve been a better movie with actual music that fit.
shareBlack Star and Outkast on the same track? Are you deaf? This was a great soundtrack!
shareI was watching this earlier after having not seen it for maybe 5 years or so. I thought to myself: "wow, there's actually good rap in this movie." I'm so surprised that others feel differently. Normally hip-hop in films is $hitty commercial dancy $hit. This movie I would say has a decidedly respectable soundtrack. Especially that Black Star track.
Though under Earth and throneless now I be,
Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me.
Can anyone tell me the name of the classical track played at the end? Much obliged :)
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