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Only a few years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine hip-hop fans' paying attention to a cd that philosophizes about mortality, at least not without a good shoot-out at the end. A purist mentality kept the genre loaded down with hard-core rappers, most of whom stuck with traditional formulas: shunning live instruments and embracing gangsta bravado. "I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect," says Everlast, "but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and music that wasn't hard core. I wanted to get out of that...
...show who wanted to do Ladies Man, so when we had the green light for the movie, we sent her a script, and she said she wanted to be in it. So that was how we got her. As for Karyn Parsons, we were getting ready to shoot and we hadn't yet found a Julie, and finally Karyn sent a tape, and everybody loved her. It was easy for me to do Leon with her, because she understood how I worked with improvising and stuff, and it was a great chemistry. So, I was very instrumental in casting...
...Well, no. I mean, it's such a crap shoot, you know? You can't go out thinking that every swing is going to be a home run. It really is a sort of zen thing. You have to let the audience decide, "We love this character, we think this is funny, we want to see this again...
...create a new category. A melange of melodrama, pastiche, and musical, the film tries one's patience and pushes viewers to a breaking point, much like Selma. But if we hold on under this mounting tension, then the rewards are almost transcendental. Many people have complained about the shaky shooting of handheld video, the nervous pans and haphazard frames. Also the jump cutting and discontinuity in time also make for an unsettling feeling. But this adds to the experience, the fragility and excitement, as if the film might fall apart at any moment. It makes one edgy...
...following minutes, Harvard tried every corner play in the book: passing the ball to sophomore back Katie Scott, passing the ball to senior forward Kate Nagle, having Sarles shoot directly--but nothing worked...