Friday Night Fro: Menace II Society

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Yeah, it’s about time we put this up here. It’s Friday, and I have to take some SAT Subject Tests tomorrow, so I’m not gonna do a lot of talking here. When I first saw this movie at age 14, it was without a doubt the hardest movie I had ever seen. From the drop, within the first 20 minutes, the two main characters stick-up, rob, and kill two Asian shop owners, only going in there to pick up some beer. That’s basically how the entire movie goes: Caine, the movie’s main character, is a dealer just trying to survive in the hood, while his best friend O-Dog, is just living his life, not giving a fuck about anything, and getting Caine into trouble most of the time.

Everything about this movie makes it a hood classic: O-Dog is still one of the baddest brothers ever to grace the movie screen; The classic stick-up scene from the beginning of the movie, and who could ever forget the ending?? It was one of those endings that didn’t settle well, but at the same time you could never forget about it. Caine’s story as a youth just trying to make it is both crazy and it also makes you think about influences and how young children pick up how to survive in the hood at a young age, and later, without realizing it, pass those lessons on to even younger kids.

In short, this whole movie is insane. I could go on and on, but like I said, it’s Friday. Enjoy: May looks like it’s gonna be a hot month for music, and we’ll be back with the new shit. Enjoy.

    1. I took the U.S. history and the Literature. The U.S. History one wasn’t too bad, but the Literature one was HARD. They hardly give you enough time!

  1. Woulda been better if Pac would have got that role and not beat up them directors. Classic movie still

  2. Haha me and my business writing professor were just talking about this movie on wednesday. He’s a hip hop head as well so we talk about other material besides class. He was telling me how he watched Colors for the first time and hated it and i pretty much explained how there is other great movies depicting “the hood” in L.A. and Colors is by far the worse since it glorifies violence and revenge instead of showing a different way. Menace To Society is ultraviolent but it shows how there is NO future in a life of crime and Boyz N The Hood is a morality tale that graphically shows the outcome if you decide to make the wrong decisions. Laurence Fishburne might have been a hardass on Cuba but the point is he raised him better than Doughboy’s mom.

    1. colors was also whack cuz it depicted a false sense of demeanor from the lapd, its common knowledge now that the police was beating up folks that fit the description back then but colors not once touched on instead the story was told from the police point of view which obviously was a distorted one! so yea colors izz trash and menace 2 society kicks ass!

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