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...South," says U.S.C. professor Todd Boyd, author of The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce the sound to an even wider audience and ought to boost collaborators like Memphians Al Kapone and Three 6 Mafia, not to mention Ludacris, who has a pivotal role as a rapper from the streets made good known as Skinny Black. Performers...
...lyrics --"You know it's hard out here for a pimp/ When he's gotta get the money for the rent"--don't quite have the lilt of "Some day my prince will come." And the rapper who composed that verse is no Snow White. DJay is a black man, a Memphis, Tenn., dope dealer and peddler of prostitutes' flesh. But his yearning has the same intensity as any Disney heroine's. For DJay has a mission: he wants to make a hit record. He dares to dream the pimpossible dream...
...white guy? Taylor Hackford had run up against similar prejudices in the 15 years it took him to make Ray. As Brewer recalls, "I'm sitting there sweating bullets, thinking, No one is buying this movie about Ray Charles. Why would they buy my movie about a pimp...
Ranting has many styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax." On and on he went...
Then Freston's people paid a hefty $9 million, plus an extra $7 million for a two-picture production deal, for MTV Films to purchase the rights to Hustle & Flow, the inspiring tale of a Memphis street dude with rap-star dreams (think Rocky, except that he's a pimp). Industry savants saw that buy as a clue to the new direction. Freston was the face of triumphant youth culture--the kid whose stuffy parents have handed him not just the keys to the car but their credit cards and the deed to their home...