July 23, 2023
Hustle & Flow Movie Debuts in Theaters – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:July 22, 2005: The independent film Hustle & Flow was released in select theaters on this day in 2005. Some say the notoriety the film would come to achieve from several diverse audiences is a result of the subtle combination of a familiar-faced cast and a realistic, gritty and broadly relative storyline.Director Craig Brewer pulled off a surprisingly well-meshed slew of actors like Terrence Howard, who plays the hard-knocked protagonist DJay, Taryn Manning, playing Nola, one of DJay's main prostitutes, Taraji P. Henson, playing Shug as DJay's pregnant love interest. Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and the storyline serve as a bit of a romanticization...