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The Wackness: A White Boy’s Hip-Hop Dream
written by Doesn't Matt R'

So this is a hip-hop site and I figure in a summer full of huge blockbuster movies, I’ll give a quick shout out to a small little flick that may have gotten lost in the shuffle. Mostly because it has one of the sickest hip-hop soundtracks in recent years, but also because I just saw the damn thing about 2 hours ago, so it’s still fresh in my head.

Part of the reason the soundtrack is so hot is because it sounds like the illest mixtape would have made in ’94, when the movie takes place. Yeah, it’s about a white, middle class drug dealer in Manhattan. And yes it does seem to glorify the business. We’re not talking the Wire here. But what good is nostalgia if you can’t look back at an important time in your life and only remember the good parts?

Alright, alright. So in the summer ’94 I was only just recently graduated from elementary school. But I had The Box, so the music was there for me. Go check out this movie. You’ll have all the same flashbacks I did, regardless of where you’re from; the awkward high school parties, the first time you were alone with a girl you really sweated, throwing a up a shitty tag on some wall for the hell of it.

It’s worth it just to see Method Man (as the kid’s supplier, with a HORRIBLE Jamaican accent) throw on Biggie for the first time. It’ll give you chills to hear what song this guy is acting the scene to, 14 years later. Remember the first time you heard Ready to Die? But mostly it’s worth it to see Ben Kingsley playing his wildest role yet. The laughs are there. Plus he makes out with an Olsen twin, about 50 years younger than him.

If you need a break from all the CGI-heavy flicks, and it’s playing near you (it’s got a small release right now) go check it out. I guarantee you’ll come home and wish you still had a tape deck to throw together a Tribe heavy mix, with Wu-Tang interludes.