Feb
06

Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big’s deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the film casts one eye on the zeros padding their bank accounts and one eye on the leeches, crooks and hustlers vulturing around them. Unfortunately, the built-in drama of this… Continue reading »

Jan
25

Pause and Rewind: The Show

I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn’t very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive, Warren G was the biggest star in the world, Wu-Tang was in the middle of the greatest run in rap history and Snoop Dogg hadn’t yet… Continue reading »