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Does Hip Hop
have heart?
Not really sure in this film. “G” would
have had to have been a bit clearer with
what its main focus was meant to be. Was
it about making it in the rap game or
was it about two men who are in love
with the same woman?
Richard T. Jones and Blair Underwood
star in a dramatic version of a rap
film. Underwood (Chip Hightower) plays a
rich cheating husband whose ego doesn’t
want to lose his wife Chenoa Maxwell
(Sky) and Richard T. Jones (Summer G)
plays a rap mogul lost in the shuffle of
the industry and reunited with a lost
love. Can these two bring themselves to
give it all up for love?
The film didn’t explore new territory in
the rap world. It actually bypassed that
story line for drama in the bedroom. It
forced the audience to look at the
outside lifestyle of people in music and
those closely and personally associated
to them. The atmosphere which “G” was
filmed was spectacular and beautiful.
But unfortunately the actors who played
them didn’t quite fit the picture.
The storyline of rappers living it up in
The Hampton' didn’t freshen the subject
matter. The all too familiar ghetto
fabulous artists living in the crisp
clean multi-million dollar neighborhood
didn’t open the audience to any “new”
realization. What “G” didn’t capture was
a mind opening experience. Its
characters surely weren’t fit for the
picturesque background as Richard T.
Jones as a rapper didn’t convince
anyone. Nor did the impersonation of
rapper relics like Charlie Baltimore –
Daisy Duke (Jillian Lindsey)
Look-alikes. And fake Genuwine. Neither
did the history of it all where Summer G
starts his label inside his dorm room in
a New York City college…uh…Def
Jam…story!?!
The title also gives you an impression
of a bad boy on top. Surely Jones
doesn’t come across like Sean Combs.
Even with bat in hand. And although
Blair Underwood did play a convincing
cheating husband, his supporting actress
partner left nothing to be desired.
Being dramatic doesn’t compensate for
loss of acting skills.
This film had a huge possibility to be
great but the product placement didn’t
do this production justice. The actors
chosen for the part didn’t fit the
roles, which prove that big names can
actually ruin your chance at a good film
as well as rehashing the same old story
that anyone can tell in their sleep.
“G” is best left for a DVD rental.
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