The Best 'Raploitation' Movies Of All-Time

The Best 'Raploitation' Movies Of All-Time?

  • I'm Bout It

    Votes: 2 50.0%
  • Thicker Than Water

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Hot Boyz

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Choices: The Movie

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Baller Blockin'

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • State Property

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Tha Eastsidaz

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Murda Muzik

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Survival of the Illest

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Boss'n Up

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Killa Season

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Before I Self Destruct

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ghetto Stories

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    4
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Benzino....:lol:
 
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Every single character was rapping their dialogue, from the thugs to the ladies to the doctors and police officers..surprisingly didn't come off corny and was well executed. It was a trip seeing Actresses like Malinda williams spitting bars

It's Pretty much a film version of Sticky's "Black Trash" album..I remember him talking about making a movie adaptation of the album years ago and getting Omar Epps and Mekhi phifer involved..This was probably Sticky's labour of love for a few years
 
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Belly---Best cinematography of any "Raploitation' flick ever..and was actually a decent flick for about the first 45 minutes, untill it eventually got dragged down by a weak plot, lazy character development and weak acting (shout out to Nas)

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Lot of Eye Candy, and not too bad of a plot
 
boss n up
choices 1 and 2
killa season
state property 1 and 2
paid in full
young jeezy .38 lil movie he did
that 50 cent joint "before i self destruct" with angel lola luv phat ass booty in it before she got popped with tha shotgun:smh:
first time felon
im bout it bout it
 


Random Acts of Violence (2002)
The hero is the survivor of gang violence against his family. After a few years he comes back for revenge. Bodies pile up against a backdrop of a large drugs deal.
 
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good shyt Kes i didn't know about a lot of these...i remember hearing about it but i forgot and never saw belly 2...is that official or what...anybody saw it?
 
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I just added this "rapsploitation" as a sub-genre to my blog. I haven't gave it a formal definition yet, but other movies would included Juice, House Party, Breakin', Beat Streets, Above the Rim, Set it Off....etc

All the movies in red are mainstream urban films that played in the theater.

Since you started this thread is would be great to discuss some of the criteria of deeming a movie rapsploitation. I don't think it has to be cheap and straight to DVD/VHS.

The films in this thread are low budget b-movies that are just a showcase for a rap artist.

Hood movies from major studios that played at theaters are different:


Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States in the late 1980s to early 1990s, which features aspects of urban African-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, racial discrimination, poverty, and the problems of young black men coming of age or struggling in a predominantly white society. Such films predominantly feature African-American actors.The prototypical hood films are Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society, whose serious storytelling approach popularized the type. As early as 1996, however, hood films were seen as a stereotype against which black filmmakers constantly struggled to avoid comparison or compartmentalization.
 
The films in this thread are low budget b-movies that are just a showcase for a rap artist.

Hood movies from major studios that played at theaters are different:


Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States in the late 1980s to early 1990s, which features aspects of urban African-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, racial discrimination, poverty, and the problems of young black men coming of age or struggling in a predominantly white society. Such films predominantly feature African-American actors.The prototypical hood films are Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society, whose serious storytelling approach popularized the type. As early as 1996, however, hood films were seen as a stereotype against which black filmmakers constantly struggled to avoid comparison or compartmentalization.

Greatly appreciate your insight fam. Ever since this thread started I have been researching hood vs. rapsploitation films. Even going as far as film that could be considered ghetto. I took the definition of hood movies and applied it properly to the blog.

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Really helpful thread fam. And thanks for the education and clarification. I want to make sure black cinema films are categorized properly. Now I am searching for everything in this thread do I can present it on my blog properly. Anymore info or suggestions you have on the handling of these films I am open to.
 
It's funny ya'll made this thread. I was talking with a friend of mine who wrote an article talking about this. Basically saying years from now we will look back on black cinema of today and in the same manner we reflect on blaxploitation. We've created hoodsploitation and as this thread title rapsploitation.
 


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Bad Bizness is a 2004 American film.
Directed by Jim Wynorski, Albert Pyun. With Traci Bingham, Master P, Brent Huff, Belinda Gavin.
 
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This is my shit. VERY obscure so therefore it's slept on or never brought up in discussion. I don't know too many people who has seen it.

This came out when I was eleven or twelve years old. Used to come on Showtime way back in the day. The actor who played D'Angelo Barksdale from The Wire was in this.
 
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