I put on Jack Harlow and immediately turned that shit off because we need to start gatekeeping our things again. Inclusion isn’t always the thing to do.
In honor of the Oscars tonight, just a reminder that director Ryan Coogler was influenced by Young Dolph & Nipsey Hussle in the making of ‘Sinners’ :
▫️He got the idea for Sinners shortly after Dolph’s passing when drawing the connection between the struggles of rappers to the struggles of artists in grunge music, then realizing how similar grunge was to the blues (hence the exploration of struggles across diff cultures in the movie)
▫️Coogler had Nip on repeat during some hard times shortly after ‘Black Panther’
▫️When another filmmaker, Calmatic (director of the ‘Squabble Up’ video), saw the film, he told Coogler that Smoke & Stack felt like Nip & Blacc Sam
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