DJay gains admittance to the party under the pretext of providing marijuana, with the intention of giving Skinny Black his demo tape. After their first recording, DJay falls in love with Shug.ĭJay's friend, Arnel (Isaac Hayes), informs him that Skinny Black (Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges), a successful Memphis rapper, will be returning to the neighborhood for a Fourth of July party.
Henson), joins in the creative process, singing hooks, and the group eventually records several fixed-length tracks, including 'Whoop That Trick' and their primary single 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp'. DJay's pregnant prostitute, Shug (Taraji P. DJay throws out one of his prostitutes, Lexus, along with her one-year-old son Roger, for ridiculing his art. DJay must hustle those around him in order to procure proper equipment and recording time, and Key's relationship with his wife becomes strained. The group experiences many setbacks throughout the creative process. DJay quickly proves to have a real talent for lyrics, and his first fixed-length song, done at the urging of his friends, appears to have a decent chance of becoming a hit and getting local radio play. Key and his sound-mixer friend Shelby (DJ Qualls) help DJay put together several 'flow' songs in which he expresses the frustrations of a small-time hustler struggling to survive. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay decides to try his hand at making hip hop songs. Plot ĭJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Three 6 Mafia's song 'It's Hard out Here for a Pimp'.
With Hustle & Flow, director Craig Brewer and actor Terrence Howard burst out of the gate as the year’s talent to watch, simply by turning what would normally be a reprehensible character like. I got to see it last night at an AFI screening at Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles, and the audience really reacted positively to. 'Hustle & Flow' is a very strong directorial from writer/director Craig Brewer, and it is very worthy of the buzz that it has been generating for the last couple of months. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper. Hustle & Flow is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton and Stephanie Allain.
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