("Is Obama Hip Hop?")"STREET KINGS" Common & Cedric The Ent

BlackTree TV sits down with Cedric The Entertainer and rapper/actor Common to discuss Dirty Cops, Obama, Media and their new movie "Street Kings"

The Game, Common & DJ Muggs Add Hip-Hop Flavor To New Keanu Reeves Flick
written by Janeé Bolden
Wednesday - March 5, 2008
The Game

Upcoming police drama Street Kings has hip-hop written all over it, not only do Common and the Game have starring roles but former Cypress Hill producer DJ Muggs is also providing the score for the film.

Set on the gritty streets of Los Angeles, Street Kings features Keanu Reeves as an LAPD Vice Detective, determined to track down his former partner's killers. Forrest Whitaker, Common and the Game also star in the David Ayer-directed film. Ayer is known for writing such past films as Training Day and The Fast And The Furious.

Due out in April, the flick also features a score created by renowned Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins producer, DJ Muggs. In a recently released statement, Muggs described his duties on the project:

"We began the process of Street Kings by talking to David Ayer about the direction of the sound and how we wanted to convey certain moods in certain scenes," DJ Muggs explained. "Once the movie was shot, we went to work and brought the sound and movement to life."

"The main difference from scoring and making records is that in scoring the music can't loop," Muggs explained. "You gotta build, take away and add changes constantly as each frame changes. And the other difference is that when I make music, I only have to answer to me. This time I had the director and the producers and the studio Fox Searchlight. You have to make sure they get their vision across as well as the energy and emotion they want in the sound of their film. I'm here for that purpose."

DJ Muggs is currently working on his compilation album Soul Assassins III, as well as the concept album DJ Muggs vs. Planet Asia with Planet Asia..

Street Kings lands in theaters on April 11th.

Starring:
Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland),
Hugh Laurie ("House") & Chris Evans (Fantastic Four)
lead the all-star cast including
Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire), John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding),
Cedric the Entertainer (Johnson Family Vacation), Amaury Nolasco ("Prison Break"),
Naomi Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), Terry Crews ("Everybody Hates Chris"),
Common (American Gangster), & The Game.
Directed by the Writer of TRAINING DAY: DAVID AYER
Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews), Ludlow sets out on a quest to find the real murderers responsible and bring them to justice. With the help of a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Chris Evans), the two team up to tackle the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Academy® Award winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie).


A BlackTree Media Production

Produced by Jamaal Finkley

Hosted by Ms. Patricia Cage

STREET KINGS is set for a wide release on April 11, 2008.
Running time: 103 minutes
For more information on STREET KINGS, please visit the following link:

http://www.blacktree.tv

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[jaxa3]

Common actually SCARED THE SHI* out me in this movie though!...like for real! He ran with that character!...

[JZAqb]

I wish Common and Game had longer roles in this movie.

[Micahart999]

i dont like keanus face

[waiting4smtin]

what's the name of the 1st lupe song, where u hear him say, " I'm the American dream, the blood of this city..."

[maniccrayon]

Is Obama Hip Hop? Why not? Everything is Hip Hop. Disney is Hip Hop, diaper commercials are Hip Hop, everything is Hip Hop. Hip Hop has become a parody of itself. It's over and the brain dead fans of this shit don't even realize it.

[Drewandy22]

mark walhberg could've DEFINATELY 100 TIMES DONE A BETTER JOB PLAYING Keanu's role

[mobspeak]

keanu sucks dick

[Pravoizavlijesvijeta]

keanu reves is one of the baddest actors of all time.

[Instrumental187]

man fuck obama. Real hip hop heads would tell you that there is no difference between obama & bush. Their both evil as hell but obama is much wiser than bush plus he's black which makes all african-americans be proud of. They (african-americans) don't care whether he's good or bad, they only care about him cause he's black & he's the first black president. But real hip hop heads would tell you that obama is just as bad as bush was, its just a different direction now.

[vernaspeck365]

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