Director Ryan Coogler reveals how hip-hop shaped Black Panther and Creed
, with Radio Raheem, the whole beatbox, and the sneaker culture. Singleton would put rappers in the movie, like Tupac [Shakur] in. Janet Jackson is in the movie, so I can’t remember [hip-hop] not being a full-blown part of my life and the movies in my life.AVC: In the middle ’80s to the early ’90s, Black films weren’t necessarily about rap anymore—they wereIn the ’90s, the early 2000s, it was over with. All the movies had hip-hop soundtracks. The music informed the film. It was dialogue.
Music is a great tool to evoke a sense of place in a movie.. When Radio Raheem goes into Sal’s pizza joint banging “Fight The Power,” the track informs the audience about the place, the time, the problem, and it almost speaks for the characters.Yeah, Bra! They shot the video for it and everything. The music video was part of the film, like it was part of the script, in a way.AVC: “Fight The Power” is indispensable for that scene.
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