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Hustle & Flow (2005)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
3/06, 11/07
3/06:
If you need a reason why that rap is crap, look no further than Hustle & Flow.
The lyrics of one song go like this:
"You know it's hard out here for a pimp.
Gotta couple hos workin on the changes for me.
It's blood, sweat, and tears when it come down to this shit.
I'm tryin to get rich 'fore I leave up out this bitch."
Yeah, okay. Get an education. Oh, can't read or write? Well, then...welcome to prison. You really had a choice. According to
an article titled "Prisoners in 2006" by William J. Sabol, Ph.D., Heather Couture, and Paige M. Harrison, courtesy
of the U.S. Department of Justice, here are some sobering statistics:
"Black men represented the largest proportion of sentenced male inmates at year end 2006 (38%). Overall, black men had an
incarceration rate of 3,042 per 100,000 black men in the United States at year end 2006. About 1 in every 33 black men was
a sentenced prisoner. For white men, the incarceration rate for 2006 was 487 per 100,000 (or about 1 in every 205 white men)."
Like I said, get an education, and go to the library as often as possible. Pay attention in school, follow the directions,
do the work, pull up your pants, and always speak in the Standard English language to make yourself understood.
All in all, get out of here, Hustle & Flow.
11/07:
Hustle & Flow is cheesy with the worst lyrics ever.
I like the title and the look of the poster, but the film per se is horrible. There are many bad performances, and the language
is annoying to listen to. However, I have to give credit to the actors and actresses for mastering the lines. The plot comes
down to this: a black douchebag pimps gets his two malnourished women to help with his dream of becoming a rap artist which
means he's a "retard attempting poetry."
Whoop that trick? I guess. According to Criminal Practice Law Report, Dr. Phyllis Chesler wrote, "Prostituted women have long been
considered 'fair game' for sexual harassment, rape, gang-rape, 'kinky' sex, robbery, and beatings." A 1991 study by the
Council for Prostitution Alternatives stated, "78 percent of 55 prostituted women reported being raped an average of
16 times annually by their pimps and 33 times a year by Johns. Twelve rape complaints were made in the criminal justice system
and neither pimps nor Johns were ever convicted. These prostitutes also reported being 'horribly beaten' by their pimps an
average of 58 times a year. The frequency of beatings by Johns ranged from 1 to 400 times a year. Legal action was
pursued in 13 cases, resulting in 2 convictions for 'aggravated assault.'"
All in all, Hustle & Flow is garbage.