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We knew the return of Hip-Hop Honors after a six-year hiatus would be huge, but with a surprise from Diddy and some major beef getting squashed, this year was bigger than ever.
When the Cromiers, a young married couple, move into their gorgeous new home in rural Louisiana, they feel like they've died and gone to Heaven. Unfortunately the ghosts that haunt the house threaten to make this a reality, and as the number of unexplainable incidents rises the family realizes they'll be lucky to get out alive.
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied customers but also the FBI.
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
Buckjumping is a cinematic journey through the soul of New Orleans. The film explores different communities as they express themselves through movement, painting a dynamic portrait of a city's spirituality, defiance and resourcefulness.
The first documentary about bounce, Ya Heard Me, is a bottom-up look at the genre. With much of the footage shot before Hurricane Katrina, Ya Heard Me serves not only as a testament to the city's musical legacy but as a lasting document of a city that will never be the same. As a bittersweet footnote, the film explores the surviving genre as it rebuilds and disperses in the wake of the storm, with displaced residents taking the sound of New Orleans to all corners of the South and beyond.
Nino never wanted the life of a gangster, but when his father, Don Corleone is gunned down in the street, he must answer the call for revenge. Now Nino is Da Last Don and the family business is in his hands...a world of deceit, back room deals and crooked cops that threatens to destroy everything Nino loves.
I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
Master P performs in the music video "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" from the album "Ghetto D" recorded for No Limit Records and Priority Records. Master P raps as he sits atop a golden tank in the middle of a basketball court. He is joined in his performance by Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal.
