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He's Rick James, Bitch!
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I don't know how this news slipped past us for so long, but there's a Rick James documentary in the works called, that's right, I'm Rick James. (Reading the article about it, I was stunned to see that James died in 2004. Where the hell have I been?) According to UrbanMecca.com, the movie is being made by HiddenDoor Documedia, and will feature tell-all interviews with celebs like Janice Dickinson, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg and Dave Chappelle, who was once planning to star in a James biopic. Based on the bits and pieces that HiddenDoor are leaking, there's a lot of dirt in some of those interviews, and "some celebrities may be warned to prepare their alibis now." ("Oh crap. Where was I during the entire 1980s? What did I tell my wife?") Included in the fairly hilarious list of those who allegedly partied with James -- at Studio 54 and elsewhere -- during his heyday are Tatum O'Neal, Linda Blair, Prince, Mick Jagger, Eddie Murphy and, of all people, Elisabeth Shue, who must have been about 17 at the time. While producer Perry Santos claims that the movie will be a portrait of an era, the reality of the situation is that the studio is doing its damnedest to sell it as a good, old-fashion sex, drugs and "funk'n'roll" (as James himself once put it) story. Which, honestly, is probably the best way to put butts in the seats -- if the movie ever gets distribution, that is.
Hip-Hop v the Law, the Movie
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According to first-time director Don Sikorski's
documentary Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops, "law enforcement
has been compiling secret dossiers on hundreds of hip-hop artists and execs for years." In the movie, Sikorski
details what is described as a "nationwide task force" - aka "the hip-hop cops" - involving local
police forces, the DEA, and the FBI that, among other things, compiles surveillance videos (obtained by Sikorski from
the NYPD) on its subjects. While Variety reports that some of Sikorski's film is built on information acquired
through use of the Freedom of Information Act, it also makes it sound like the movie relies heavily on the words of
artist such as Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, and Snoop Dogg, sources unlikely to be granted much credence by some
audiences.The movie doesn't yet have distribution, so all discussion of it at the moment is moot - hopefully a company with some balls will pick it up, put together a smart advertising campaign based on its controversial content, and get it into theaters, so we can decide for ourselves how plausible Sikorski's case is.
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