What's woody wood,
grasshoppers?
Netflix premiered the Roxanne
Roxanne movie about rap pioneer Roxanne Shante...pretty much the first female solo eMCee to blow up in Hip-Hop, and also one of the earliest eMCees to come out of the Queensbridge Housing Projects...the largest housing development in the world
I would also go far to say that she rapped on the first rap diss record that blew up...
...Roxanne's Revenge
An answer record to U.T.F.O's Roxanne Roxanne
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The first part of Roxanne Roxanne was dope...we got an inside look about how she emerged as a rap star in an industry dominated by males...I thoroughly enjoyed the movie by then even though I got the feeling that the flick had anti-male sentiments throughout
Then the second half of the movie
got a little bit weird
The movie at that point made men seem weak and shiesty
R&B singer Tina Turner's abuse from her husband, Ike Turner, was a major part in her life (and made public), and was warranted in What's Love Gotta Do With It?
Now you might say, "Nah'Sun, you do realize that the movie is actually some people's reality, right?"
Is domestic violence and sexual assault against women an issue in society?
Most definitely
On the flip side...
...if I didn't know that
Roxanne Shante was a rap pioneer, I would've thought she was a battered
girlfriend of a drug dealer all the while screwed over by her male friends and
associates
What does the "men not living up to their responsibilities" monologue at the end of the movie gotta do with Hip-Hop?
It felt out of place
The movie was low key the Hip Hop version of The Color Purple mix with a little bit of Precious; the scene after Shante and her sisters were waiting on their father, Shante's mother telling her daughters never wait on a man, not to trust a man, etc. We have seen this "Black men ain’t shit" formula being promoted in so many Black movies. I don’t have problem with empowering Black women, but it seems like in order to empower Black women, we have to emasculate Black men or throw Black men under the bus
That transition scene from her moaning from sex to screaming when giving birth to screaming from being dragged by her hair was wild
What does the "men not living up to their responsibilities" monologue at the end of the movie gotta do with Hip-Hop?
It felt out of place
The movie was low key the Hip Hop version of The Color Purple mix with a little bit of Precious; the scene after Shante and her sisters were waiting on their father, Shante's mother telling her daughters never wait on a man, not to trust a man, etc. We have seen this "Black men ain’t shit" formula being promoted in so many Black movies. I don’t have problem with empowering Black women, but it seems like in order to empower Black women, we have to emasculate Black men or throw Black men under the bus
That transition scene from her moaning from sex to screaming when giving birth to screaming from being dragged by her hair was wild
The optics of the whole thing...dang
Roxanne Roxanne came across
like an incomplete Lifetime movie instead of a biopic about a rapper who ascended to stardom
But like they say, it's
HER-story
I give the movie 3 stars out
of 5 due to lack of focus and a main idea
Aight, I'm Audi 5 stacks
Peace and Afro Grease
Nah'Sun the Great @
www.nahsunblaze.com
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