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“All Eyez on Me”
Physically, Demetrius Shipp Jr. looks eerily similar to Tupac Shakur, the larger-than-life figure he portrays. But doing poetic justice to a complicated figure like Pac — in all of his charisma, compassion, unbridled energy, and thug lifestyle — is a tall task for a first-time actor, and the cursory script does him no favors.
(Thankfully, Danai Gurira’s convincing transformation into Afeni Shakur earns this film its placement here.)
6. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”
Sure, 50 Cent takes a lot of creative liberty in this depiction of his rise from the streets to superstardom — the beginning of a long legacy of pimping his origin story for Hollywood (*cough* Kanan *cough*).
But his Queens-bred mythology, complete with one of hip-hop’s most legendary drive-by shootings, is too epic not to get the big-screen treatment, even if it laughably depicts famed crime boss Supreme as “Majestic” and curiously dons 50 “Young Caesar.”
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“Roxanne, Roxanne”
Hip-hop pioneer Roxa