Spooky SZN folks! We had our friend Ed Rivadavia (AllMusic, Loudwire, Ultimate Classic Rock) on to discuss Hellraiser III, starring california metal heroes Armored Saint. 

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Chris (@funkyassdg) requested this one and we were long overdue. We watched Saul Williams film debut in SLAM, a one half prison drama one half romance about how friggin powerful the sound of Saul Williams' voice is. 

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We watched a wrestler thing! That means Chris from the bad wrestling podcast (currently on hiatus) had to join us. This one has Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Ja Rule, Omarion and a whole gang of loose beef.

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Tom Waits plays Renfield and Gary Oldman plays 'White Suga Free' in bonkers Dracula adaptation that somehow made sense as mainstream entertainment in the nineteen hundred and nineties. Plus Ant picked TWO bangers that sample Tom Waits. One of them by Master P! Can you imagine! What music he makes!

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A scheduling snafu caused us to bring out a classic format. We cover every team in the league, with one exception. It's everything you'd expect from us doing a last minute NBA pod.

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(Sorry 4 Tha Wait) We watched a documentary that made us question the nature of documentaries as an art form. Well, some of us did. Sean just loves this shit.

If you're looking for an earnest discussion about the Biggie and Tupac murder cases, there are probably other podcasts for you. If you're looking for a discussion about how sus documentaries are, especially in the hands of filmmakers with questionable ethics, then this one is for you!

This was a fun one, it was delayed while I (Ryan) dealt with a family issue. We'll resume regularly scheduled programming now.

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We watched Penelope Spheeris' shelved (thanks SHARON)1999 documentary about Ozzfest '99. Is it officially part of her 'Decline of Western Civilization' documentary series? We think so. It features Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Rob Zombie, System of a Down, Fear Factory, Deftones, Primus, Slayer and many more. We get to talk Spheeris' career, and of course do a deep dive into Nu Metal. It's long. You're welcome. Or...sorry.

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We watched Cappadonna's re-dub of a 1971 HK Action Film called The Duel (aka Duel of The Iron Fist) also starring Shawn Wigs from Theodore Unit. It's unlike any other film we've covered, and somehow the quintessential BBO film. We also get to discuss Cappadonna, which is always a treat.

Watch it here!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihHQZsK_JwM&ab_channel=ChillmaticCinematic



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CONTENT WARNING: This film explores SA in extreme detail. We discuss some of these themes in the episode.

We watched a French film! A Sci Fi one! Andre 3000 starred in Claire Denis' 2018 film HIGH LIFE alongside the gawd Robert Pattinson. There is an audio issue in the second part of the episode - the music part. The timing might be off by MILLISECONDS but it should be OK.

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This is Abe's fault! Abe Beame came through to watch the REMAKE of White Men Can't Jump with us. One guess as to how we reacted to a straight to streaming remake of a beloved film starring Louisville Kentucky's favorite white rapper...

Still fun to talk to Abe though and we play some awesome music from Mr. Short Khop and Teyana Taylor.

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LONGEST EPISODE EVER. Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People is a semi-fictionalized account of Factory Records in Manchester, covering the years 1976-1992. Joy Division, Happy Mondays, New Order, Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, many many more get covered in an insanely entertaining film that the three of us have seen collectively about 50 times. We have a LOT to say. So we edited very little. Its chaotic, its long and its great. Enjoy.

Songs:
Durutti Column - Chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYZO1fo-Mc&ab_channel=TheDuruttiColumn-Topic

Happy Mondays - Cowboy Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnZi5ANYUI&ab_channel=LondonRecords

Jilted John - Jilted John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybp-NbONgBo&ab_channel=fritz51304

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Our most ridiculous bit returns! With Sean away on assignment, Ant and Ryan return to BLADE: The Series, to try and remember wtf is going on with all of our friends in Detroit. Why? Well because BLADE was played by Sticky Fingaz from Onyx in the ill-fated SPIKE TV Series. Try and keep up.

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We watched RANCHO DELUXE, a slowpoke "western" starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, Elizabeth Ashley and JIMMY BUFFET. We get to discuss our love of 70s films, country, and the merits (or anti-merits) of ol' Parrothead himself.

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The awesome David Allan Coe diss track
https://youtu.be/QnTO7rTf2cM?si=hrKTVL_I4cuJXlGq

Hoo buddy this is a smart movie! We did our best to dissect one of the most thematically rich and thought provoking films we've ever seen, while still somehow delivering a healthy dose of rap in the form of an extended Fredro Starr cameo, plus a lot of Cypress Hill. God this movie rules.

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Man, we watched Ernest Dickersons horror exercise BONES (2001) starring Snoop Dogg just as he was growing into a Global Brand. We cover the genres referenced in the film, talk about Verhoeven, maggots, and the best possible era of Snoop Dogg's music.

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Our first non-rapper film, but rest assured we treat it like a rapper film. Country legend Dwight Yoakam is Raoul in David Fincher's PANIC ROOM. Sean knows Fincher. Ant knows country. I know nothing. Every movie is a rap movie.

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Sean's first full-time episode! The oft-requested Brotha Lynch Hung film NOW EAT. Like most Brotha Lynch Hung things, its about cannibalism. We talk a LOT about rap. More than usual. So if you're into the "rap part", that starts around 1:22. We also talk about the movie lots, because there is a lot to sink our teeth into. Sorry.

Tracks Featured:
XCaliber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8-CZFaesY&ab_channel=BrothaLynchHung-Topic

Back Fade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9juzkIEmf5A&ab_channel=BrothaLynchHung-Topic

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Sean came through with a BANGER - Fred Durst's directorial effort in which Travolts plays a...well...forget it. Just listen we have an amazing time and yes, Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit is a rapper.

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We watched 1988's TOUGHER THAN LEATHER starring Run DMC, written and directed by Rick Rubin, who says the N word a LOT in this.

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Heavy D was in a William Friedkin joint! So we watched it, and to pad out our running time we watched a lesser CRYPT episode starring Isaac Hayes. We also discuss the crypt films, coups, Dennis Swanberg and Payne Stewart. It's mostly fine. Happy friggin spooky szn from the hardest working podcast in the game.

CRYPT JAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4DNa9j4rw&ab_channel=UPROXXVideo

GURU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnza3aD-8Q0&ab_channel=K

HEAVY D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJeRQMwMyY&ab_channel=HeavyDAndTheBoyzVEVO

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Sean McTiernan came thru to talk Rammellzee in Jim Jarmusch' STRANGER THAN PARADISE. Possibly our most interconnected episode yet, going all the way back to Sean's first appearance on the pod, into his amazing episode about Rammellzee's art, and our own ep about WILD STYLE. All linked below, along with a great resource for all of Sean's other work.

Sean's Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/seanmctiernan

Calling All Units - Ramellzee Episode:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/calling-all-units-if-this-knowledge-scares-you-the/id1241776225?i=1000414287153

Bodega Box Office - Wild Style
https://www.spreaker.com/user/bodegaboxoffice/90-wild-style-rammellzee-fab-five-freddy

Bodega Box Office - Ghost Dog
https://www.spreaker.com/user/bodegaboxoffice/45-ghost-dog-rza-ft-nochorus

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Writer and rap scholar Abe Beam (Passion of The Weiss) came through to discuss ABOVE THE RIM, an alleged classic and Tupac Shakur's final film to be released in his lifetime. We discuss basketball, whether the film is any good, Tupac's riveting performance.

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@VyceVictus from the Action For Everyone Podcast came through to discuss NOBODY (2021) starring Bob Odenkirk, RZA and Christopher Lloyd. We get to go deeper on the art of an action film, and of course get to explore our usual paranoia, wrapping the whole thing up with some international RZA bangers.

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Once again we brought WAYYYYY too much context to the mound for MONEYBALL, a perfect film.

If you want to hear Sean talk sports, Anthony display a stupid amount of knowledge about baseball and Ryan to rant about Joe Satriani to literally everyone's dismay, this is for you.

A very good music video by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai that was referenced in the episode.

Souls of Mischief - Batting Practice

One Outs is very good! Ryan made it through almost an entire episode, which is his new record for anime.

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A sub-60 minute banger, written, directed, produced by and starring Andre Nickatina. Ryan gets educated. Ant lets him know. Also an opportunity to play a ton of Nickatina's music.

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The legend Sean McTiernan (@nochorus on twitter - Live at The Death Factory is the podcast) came through to discuss Den of Thieves starring 50 Cent and Gerard Butler in ABSOLUTE UNIT mode. Yeah its HEAT for dum dums, but isn't that actually a good thing? Speaking of Heat, Ant brought it with his track selections. Stick around.

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Rah Digga returns! We discuss the Jersey MC's performance in Thirteen Ghosts, a film destined to break the brains of horror "aficionados" everywhere.

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Shout out to this listener-submitted request! A completely bonkers crime drama from 2008 starring Busta Rhymes, Sticky Fingaz, Armand Assante, and Tom Berenger's Liquor Face.

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This found footage style film doesn't star any major rappers, but it definitely stands squarely in "rap movie" territory, following stick up man Curtis Snow as he steals and fights to get by in an Atlanta neighborhood known as "The Bluff"

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April Fools style, we watched CHESS: The Musical...for reasons.

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We finally watched the 2003 classic I ACCIDENTALLY DOMED YOUR SON starring Kurupt. No film has made it more clear how broken we are by this whole rap movie exercise. Or maybe we're just better for it. It's got a script! Good sound! Good jokes! Kurupt is in it! We loved it, so of course Ant had to dig up some unreleased Kurupt to celebrate.

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REST IN POWER TINY 'ZEUS' LISTER. We rushed an episode to pay homage to a fallen demigod. The president of the damn galaxy.

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It's Spooky Season, so we had to do our internet-mandated "horror" episode. So we dug up QUEEN OF THE DAMNED, a horror "musical"(?) featuring songs by Jonathan Davis of Korn and starring none other than Aaliyah. We REALLY try and talk about Aaliyah, but we also talk a lot about Korn's surprising crossovers into the rap world. We do find time to play some FIRE Aaliyah songs though. Anyway enjoy this very spooky episode.

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After getting ROASTED on University of Dope for not having seen 1995's DEAD PRESIDENTS, we finally watched this classic Vietnam epic, starring Sticky Fingaz, Heather B, Larenz Tate, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael Imperioli, Chris Tucker, Keith David, Clifton Powell, Terrence Howard, and many more.

Directed by the Hughes Brothers, this was the follow up to their smash MENACE II SOCIETY.

This episode gives Ant time to fire off his usual spiciness about the Vietnam War, and we get to discuss tracks by Pharoahe Monch and R.A. The Rugged Man.

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Sean came through to discuss D-Shot's film DON'T GET CAUGHT starring E-40, Snoop Dogg, B-Legit, Bushwick Bill, Mike Epps and many more.

The music part starts at 1:05 and goes about an hour.

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Chris from the Bad Wrestling Podcast (@badwrespodcast) came through to talk about that one time in 1999 when Master P, Silk The Shocker and C-Murder all graced the WCW squared circle to do battle with some rap-hating cowboys from Minnesota.

It's a lot. It's a wrestling thing so most of the episode is just me asking dumb questions and these two wrestling geniuses being very patient in educating.

https://twitter.com/funkyassdg
https://twitter.com/badwrespodcast

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We watched the rap musical. We attempt to answer the question of "why" it is rap, and "what" are the weirder implications of giving the founding fathers this treatment. Filmmaker and critic Scout Tafoya (@honors_zombie) joins us to try and figure it out. And Anthony had a baby! So we get to celebrate that before we spend a lot of time well...not celebrating the musical.

Some of the best tracks weve ever featured as well, available below:

https://youtu.be/UNa4RdfFjuI

https://youtu.be/pKUrQMYMv04

We also forego our normal formula and just talk. So enjoy!

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Abe Beame (@TheFakeAbeBeame) came through to discuss The Carter, the 2008 documentary following Lil Wayne in the portentous months before his greatest success with The Carter III. Its a dark look at his incredible (and incredibly self destructive) creative process at a time when there was literally no one better on the mic.

Abe pitched this episode in connection with an article he put together about Wayne's legendary mixtape run AND the idea of the mixtape as art form.

Read it right here: https://www.passionweiss.com/2020/06/30/how-lil-wayne-remixed-the-mixtape/

And the episode is great! The film has some darkness so we do cover some heavy topics, but we do our best to keep it light. And if you wanna hear some of the most "rap scholarly" talk we've ever had on this show, we go DEEP into Wayne's style starting at 1:17.

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We finally did it! Nate from the Kings of Sport podcast came through to watch the Outkast musical, IDLEWILD starring Big Boi, Andre 3000, Terrence Howard, Macy Gray and more. We all have strong opinions about Outkast, so we get into our feelings pretty quick on this one. We struggle, but ultimately find a lot to love in this messy masterpiece. We also talk about Da Art of Storytellin' Part 4, and a B.O.B. song with a great Andre verse.

It's a long episode, so if you just want to hear us talk about music, that starts at 1:05.

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For a few short weeks, ESPN's The Last Dance was the best piece of basketball content on the planet. Well here's the second best. We watched 1993's MTV Rock and Jock Basketball. The third annual, which overlaps tidily with The Last Dance. Its got Dan Majerle, Rick Mahorn, Ed Lover, Bill Bellamy, Dan Cortez, Tag Team performing at half time, Jon Stewart in the booth, and most importantly it has Kay Gee from Naughty By Nature on The Violators. Kay Gee is an incredibly underrated producer, and after we get through all the insane basketball and 90's pop culture conversation, we look at some lesser-known tracks that he produced.

The audio is of "remote" quality but its very listenable. I know we loved doing it and there will definitely be more Rocks and Jocks in our future.

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Watch this movie! It's free on Youtube and it's great. Mack 10 and Fat Joe play one time rivals turned business partners caught between hustling and the creative process. It was produced by Mack 10 himself with some help by Priority Films, and it has everyone in it - Ice Cube, Big Pun, B-Real, Krayzie and Layzie Bone, MC Eiht as a guy who sucks at Taboo, and Mack 10 co-leading with Fat Joe.

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HUSTLERS was one of the best films of 2019 and we watched it with our good friend Abbey. We talk a lot about the 2008 financial crash, feature some rappers who were also strippers, and we collectively freak out over THAT scene. You know the one.

Abbey is @drunkhousewife on Instagram

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The Master of Disguise film starring Dana Carvey has been a longtime running joke between us and Brandon Soderberg, an incredible writer from Baltimore. We always said we'd find a way to talk about it through a rap lens, and April Fools seemed like the right opportunity, given the success of our SPICE WORLD Episode.

So that's what we did. We had a conversation that somehow spans 9/11, Toronto Rap, Brandon's incredible book (out in July), No Limit, Mike Oldfield, Jhene Aiko and Matthew Knowles. Its nuts. And its great. And in this time of COVID-19, we all just need more content.

:00 - :59 - Intro
:59 - 53:00 - Master of Disguise
53:00 - End - Toronto Rap, Brandon's Book, Young Bleed, Mike Oldfield, Matthew Knowles being a scammer.

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We did it! Critic and Filmmaker Scout Tafoya (@honors_zombie) returns to the show to talk about ANACONDA, a 90 minute classic starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube. There are too many dick jokes, just enough Jon Voigt impressions, Anthony losing the will to live, a covert CATS podcast (at 55 minutes in) and a TRULY horrid musical drop. You have been warned.

Movie part ends and rap part begins at 1:18
Scout's ANACONDA video essay - https://vimeo.com/363922629
Scout's Patreon - Patreon.com/honorszombie

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Our ongoing quest to watch all of the only existing season of Spike TV's BLADE: The Series (starring Sticky Fingaz from Onyx) marches on. This episode we try to remember who is who and what is going on, while also geeking out over Bokeem Woodbine and Richard Roundtree appearances. 

This one is for the true headz only. Banking while Ryan goes on Paternity Leave.

Here's the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7j2IZGPW4&ab_channel=TotalDevastation-Topic


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We did it! We watched the movie that is long. Action Bronson made his acting debut in the last five seconds of a five hour movie. Sean McTiernan, Irish movie genius and now one of the few non-suspect Yotubers came through to watch and discuss this Action Bronson classic. The episode is also long. Because we are good at podcasting.

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Not since CHESS: The Musical has a musical blown our minds in this fashion. We watched South Boy's visionary CONFESSIONS OF A THUG starring South Boy, JT Money, Gucci Mane (?), Lady of Rage.

Our first JT Money, our first Lady of Rage, and definitely our first South Boy. Strap in, this is a banger.

Also we're banking episodes so Ryan can go on paternity leave, so this has references to the Drake/Kendrick beef that are mildly outdated. Who cares.

South Boy - I'm OK Right Nowhttps://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lLelhJkG_Es&si=d0x2GmQryB3Bjila

Poison Clan - 2 Low Life Motherfuckers

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Smvjcal5cfU&si=JA6DyhhtG_qbBGsf



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We watched Renny Harlin's 2004 film MINDHUNTERS, starring LL Cool J, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater and Johnny Lee Miller's accent. We also do our first ever music video-devoted music segment. Watching this music video is ESSENTIAL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUnANXBfgA&ab_channel=ClubExotica

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We finally watched it.

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