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The Black Culture Thread |OT12| Days of Future Bans

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deli2000

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bishoptl said:
I finally caught Straight Outta Compton with my brother on Saturday. As someone who was fully into West Coast gangsta rap, the movie captured that late 80's/early 90's aesthetic perfectly. A lot of nostalgia triggers hitting me hard. I thought Yella's character got a lot more screentime than people were originally complaining about, frankly. If anyone got short shrift, it was MC Ren (incidentally, my fave rapper of the group).

Heard some noise about a possible Death Row movie thanks to the success of SOC, but that would be a waste of time to work on a story about an offshoot of NWA. What more could it bring to the table? More Snoop? I'd rather see a Tupac-focused biopic instead.
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I also got to see Compton a couple of days back. Was really surprised how much I enjoyed it, especially the first half, considering that I'm not really a biopic fan. It was really well acted out, it had a lot of energy to it, and the anti-cop sentiment was woven through really well. In fact, all the scenes with the police were really cathartic and intense. If I did have any complaints, they would be that the film rushes through a lot of stuff post breakup that I would have loved to seen them focus more on, and the movie gets really sappy towards the end.

Overall it was a blast though. Now I want to see a biopic on Illmatic and the east coast scene.
 
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Infinite

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Cecil Emeke uploaded a new video in her strolling series. For those who are unfamiliar with the series it is succinctly described as a series of interviews which "Connect the scattered stories of the Black diaspora".

In this new video she takes a stroll with Abdirashid in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he talks about blackness in the country black face, black pete, somalia, racialisation of islam, education & more. It's a good watch.

https://youtu.be/Be03kzCVhz8
 
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Kid Kamikaze10

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I know taking liberties is a biopic staple. Like, a lot of liberties.

But man, the usage of Suge Knight in SOC was just distracting in its inaccuracy. Like, some of the moments with Snoop and Dre would have led to an asskicking and 3/4ths in real life. Those dudes were absolutely scared of Suge, way more than the movie entailed. Especially Snoop who was a Crip. And I don't say this to praise Suge or some crap, but to say that a very different and potentially more fulfilling character arc could have been done being more realistic about what happened in the Death Row days.

But alas, it was still a pretty good movie, especially the first half.


Speaking of comics though, anyone keeping up with the Milestone 2.0 drama?
 
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RedSwirl

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Uh... I sent out a resume and cover letter for a job helping run a real room escape game, one of those things I knew I wasn't gonna land. Now I got the interview and am looking for any information and anecdotes that might help. All I really know is they might've started out as computer games (like 999) and then some people started making real ones.
 
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RedSwirl said:
Uh... I sent out a resume and cover letter for a job helping run a real room escape game, one of those things I knew I wasn't gonna land. Now I got the interview and am looking for any information and anecdotes that might help. All I really know is they might've started out as computer games (like 999) and then some people started making real ones.
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Whoa, that's awesome. Room Escapes are fucking COOL as shit. I don't know what you'd do there though - creative capacity? Or like the dude who calls out names at Laser Tag when the round is over?
 
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MHWilliams

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Kid Kamikaze10 said:
I know taking liberties is a biopic staple. Like, a lot of liberties.

But man, the usage of Suge Knight in SOC was just distracting in its inaccuracy. Like, some of the moments with Snoop and Dre would have led to an asskicking and 3/4ths in real life. Those dudes were absolutely scared of Suge, way more than the movie entailed. Especially Snoop who was a Crip. And I don't say this to praise Suge or some crap, but to say that a very different and potentially more fulfilling character arc could have been done being more realistic about what happened in the Death Row days.

But alas, it was still a pretty good movie, especially the first half.


Speaking of comics though, anyone keeping up with the Milestone 2.0 drama?
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Real talk though: The dude playing Suge was perfect.
 
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Numb

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Mrs. Manky said:
Norse Loki fucked a horse. After turning into a horse. A female horse. And then Female Horse Loki gave birth to an eight-legged horse.
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There's nothing about this i don't love.
 
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Slayven said:
took me 40 minutes to download a 23 meg patch from PSN. Who is their IT guy Jandro?
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Downloading plus stuff and MGS took so long i actually finished Hannibal in the middle of it all.
It's time to do something else when you want to download anything.
 
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MikeBreezy92

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Kid Kamikaze10 said:
I know taking liberties is a biopic staple. Like, a lot of liberties.

But man, the usage of Suge Knight in SOC was just distracting in its inaccuracy. Like, some of the moments with Snoop and Dre would have led to an asskicking and 3/4ths in real life. Those dudes were absolutely scared of Suge, way more than the movie entailed. Especially Snoop who was a Crip. And I don't say this to praise Suge or some crap, but to say that a very different and potentially more fulfilling character arc could have been done being more realistic about what happened in the Death Row days.

But alas, it was still a pretty good movie, especially the first half.
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Kinda unnecessary given dude was pretty much the ONLY unsympathetic character in the movie.
 
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Slayven

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Good news everybody

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...lack-Latino-Wineries-Vineyards-325472591.html

After 11 members of a mostly African-American book club had their ride aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train abruptly cut short last month, inspiring the hashtag #LaughingWhileBlack, a Bay Area nonprofit is responding by offering its own tour of black- and Latino-owned vineyards and wineries.

The "Wine Soul Train" – actually a bus – will depart from Oakland on Sept. 26 and take tour-goers around Napa and Sonoma valleys to check out the scen
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bishoptl

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Kid Kamikaze10 said:
I know taking liberties is a biopic staple. Like, a lot of liberties.

But man, the usage of Suge Knight in SOC was just distracting in its inaccuracy. Like, some of the moments with Snoop and Dre would have led to an asskicking and 3/4ths in real life. Those dudes were absolutely scared of Suge, way more than the movie entailed. Especially Snoop who was a Crip. And I don't say this to praise Suge or some crap, but to say that a very different and potentially more fulfilling character arc could have been done being more realistic about what happened in the Death Row days.
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Frankly, SOC should have been a 3.5 hour movie to get everything in properly. Including Dee Barnes/Michel'Le, fleshing out Death Row, the split between Eazy E and Dre (and those struggle diss records on Eazy's part, yikes), more background on Ren, etc.
 
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jmood88

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Slayven said:
took me 40 minutes to download a 23 meg patch from PSN. Who is their IT guy Jandro?
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Speaking of slow download speeds, I don't know what changes Microsoft made but the Xbox One download speeds are horrendous. I always used to download stuff quick as hell on the 360 but I'm getting PS3 speeds with the One.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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bishoptl said:
I finally caught Straight Outta Compton with my brother on Saturday. As someone who was fully into West Coast gangsta rap, the movie captured that late 80's/early 90's aesthetic perfectly. A lot of nostalgia triggers hitting me hard. I thought Yella's character got a lot more screentime than people were originally complaining about, frankly. If anyone got short shrift, it was MC Ren (incidentally, my fave rapper of the group).

Heard some noise about a possible Death Row movie thanks to the success of SOC, but that would be a waste of time to work on a story about an offshoot of NWA. What more could it bring to the table? More Snoop? I'd rather see a Tupac-focused biopic instead.
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I think Pac has be the next one up. The themes of police brutality really hit hard with me on SOC, given everything. I'm a lot more sympathetic to them, even if I'm white washing then and giving them more credit they don't deserve (hell, I'm about to promote Cube to my top 5). Pac was big on black love, injustice, etc. You hit now, in the next two years, covering his songs, the beef, the arrests and convictions? I'm there day one. Between nwa and Pac, you'll see plenty of thematic echoes in today's society and events and it won't be hard to sell a group of young kids on a Pac biopic. Most old cats have Pac in their top 10 and plenty have him in their top 5.



http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=178006385

Fuck this. I can't condone this fuckery.
 
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Shy

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RedSwirl said:
Uh... I sent out a resume and cover letter for a job helping run a real room escape game, one of those things I knew I wasn't gonna land. Now I got the interview and am looking for any information and anecdotes that might help. All I really know is they might've started out as computer games (like 999) and then some people started making real ones.
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Congrats Red. Break a leg.
 
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double jump

you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Anybody notice how society seems like they cant wait to tear down a black celebrity ?
By all means many of them do some reprehensible shit but there always seems to be an added layer of funk when a rich or famous black person does something wrong. "we should have never gave you niggas money" etc.
 
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akira28

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double jump said:
Anybody notice how society seems like they cant wait to tear down a black celebrity ?
By all means many of them do some reprehensible shit but there always seems to be an added layer of funk when a rich or famous black person does something wrong. "we should have never gave you niggas money" etc.
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maybe its confirmation bias. media has been telling the world for years how ain't shit the black person is. Almost to a magical level. People will stick around to see what happens.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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double jump said:
Anybody notice how society seems like they cant wait to tear down a black celebrity ?
By all means many of them do some reprehensible shit but there always seems to be an added layer of funk when a rich or famous black person does something wrong. "we should have never gave you niggas money" etc.
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It's why I can't understand Cosby. He raped a lot of white women, in the 60's and 70's. He must have sold his soul. Maybe he stop making payments.

He was like, running every time he saw the devil. Lucifer be yelling down the street after him, like, 'fuck you nicca, you better have my 5 dollars. I see you.'
 
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Kreed

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double jump said:
Anybody notice how society seems like they cant wait to tear down a black celebrity ?
By all means many of them do some reprehensible shit but there always seems to be an added layer of funk when a rich or famous black person does something wrong. "we should have never gave you niggas money" etc.
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The "we always have to be on our best behavior" mentality exists for a reason.

But I think black celebrities have to continue to adjust to the fact that A) people actually give a damn about what black celebrities say AND do now, and B) it doesn't matter how "off the radar" you think you are when you say your comments, social media will put you on blast. I remember back when Jamie Foxx was on his Sirius satellite show and made jokes about Miley Cyrus (in hindsight he just needed to wait a few years). That was the first time I realized the "barbershop bubble" for black celebrities and "black/urban" media no longer exists. I can only imagine what would happen if Jadakiss threatened to drop a refrigerator on P.Diddy today.
 
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Slayven

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Yeah "barbershop bubble" is a great term

With blog culture and shit they got to churn out content, so they turn their eye on black people.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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Kreed said:
The "we always have to be on our best behavior" mentality exists for a reason.

But I think black celebrities have to continue to adjust to the fact that A) people actually give a damn about what black celebrities say AND do now, and B) it doesn't matter how "off the radar" you think you are when you say your comments, social media will put you on blast. I remember back when Jamie Foxx was on his Sirius satellite show and made jokes about Miley Cyrus (in hindsight he just needed to wait a few years). That was the first time I realized the "barbershop bubble" for black celebrities and "black/urban" media no longer exists. I can only imagine what would happen if Jadakiss threatened to drop a refrigerator on P.Diddy today.
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That's true. Black celebrities saying outrageous comments on local morning radio show isn't new. Nobody is checking for him and he has that royalty status from in living color. So, it was the setup.

Slayven said:
Yeah "barbershop bubble" is a great term

With blog culture and shit they got to churn out content, so they turn their eye on black people.
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I'm amazed at how many sponsored links face book has. From trash sites. Sites with 14 different clicks with 3 sentences each and 12 ads every page.
 
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Infinite

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It's interesting how the rhetoric you see deployed in discussions centering around obesity is interchangeable from the ones used by right wing conservatives in discussion centering around racism. Why is that?
 
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DerangedHermit

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Infinite said:
It's interesting how the rhetoric you see deployed in discussions centering around obesity is interchangeable from the ones used by right wing conservatives in discussion centering around racism. Why is that?
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Well, at least with obesity threads, shitposters *usually* don't even bother to use whistles to hide their prejudices so you don't have to wonder if they're trolling or are just being shit.
 
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chertipros

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Infinite said:
Cecil Emeke uploaded a new video in her strolling series. For those who are unfamiliar with the series it is succinctly described as a series of interviews which "Connect the scattered stories of the Black diaspora".

In this new video she takes a stroll with Abdirashid in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he talks about blackness in the country black face, black pete, somalia, racialisation of islam, education & more. It's a good watch.

https://youtu.be/Be03kzCVhz8
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What a great channel. Thanks so much for sharing
 
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Infinite

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chertipros said:
What a great channel. Thanks so much for sharing
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No problem dude.

I thought I share that particular vid here because black Pete is a topic that comes up routinely on gaf so it's pretty interesting getting the perspective of a black person who actually lives in the Netherlands on it.

I wonder when Cecil Emeke is going to be able to start her American strolling series. I figure it's difficult because she's stationed in Europe so it's way easier going to France and what not than it is traveling to American for an interview. She could change the format to make it work though.
 
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