movies with a hip-hop soundtrack?

beano345 · 14-12-2013 11:20PM #1

From jimmy iovines post in track of the day got me thinking about films with a decent hip hop soundtrack apart from the obvious ones boyz in da hood, dont be a menace,juice,clockers etc

Anyone any recommendations?

horsebox09 · 14-12-2013 11:29PM

Watched Office Space on Netflix a few months back, full of top notch hip hop tunes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUt_KF9vI10

Not a movie, but The Wire is also littered with them

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2013 11:34PM

Rhyme & Reason
Office Space
Bulworth
Trespass (rock & hip hop mash ups)
Tales From Da Hood
Soul In The Hole
Murder Was the Case
Ghost Dog
Man With The Iron Fists
High School High
The Show
Above The Rim
New Jersey Drive

There's something else I watched recently that had loads of excellent tracks, it'll come to me.

mufcboy1999 · 15-12-2013 12:00AM

In too deep and cradle 2 to the grave have very decent hip hop soundtracks, worth a listen.

beano345 · 15-12-2013 12:04AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Rhyme & Reason
Office Space
Bulworth
Trespass (rock & hip hop mash ups)
Tales From Da Hood
Soul In The Hole
Murder Was the Case
Ghost Dog
Man With The Iron Fists
High School High
The Show
Above The Rim
New Jersey Drive

There's something else I watched recently that had loads of excellent tracks, it'll come to me.

Will check them out boom bap cheers! seen a low budget film a few years ago starring tariq from the roots brooklyn babylon it was called not great but the soundtrack was unreal by the roots unfortunately they never released a sound track to it!

Trespass had a fairly decent soundtrack same with judgement night although it was metal/hip hop crossover it worked surprisingly well together and as far as I remember the film colors had a few hip hop tracks on it ice-ts "colors" being one of them.

Boom_Bap · 15-12-2013 12:18AM

Friday!

beano345 · 15-12-2013 12:27AM

Just thought of Whole train soundtrack! Some nice ones on that!

Jimmy Iovine · 15-12-2013 12:30AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPoPRfqNWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmA7fEL_b9g

Andy_rse · 15-12-2013 10:42AM

One that I didn't expect but has a dope soundtrack is the Jonah Hill film The Sitter. It has Sugar Hill Gang, Pharcyde, Slick Rick, Ohmega Watts, Biz Markie and 2 Live Crew from what I can remember.

I think Jonah Hill is a hip hop fan and Meth has a small part in the movie.

Andy_rse · 15-12-2013 10:43AM

Oh and La Haine has an absolutely amazing soundtrack of you don't mind a bit of French hip hop.

Boom_Bap · 15-12-2013 10:59AM

Andy_rse wrote: »

One that I didn't expect but has a dope soundtrack is the Jonah Hill film The Sitter. It has Sugar Hill Gang, Pharcyde, Slick Rick, Ohmega Watts, Biz Markie and 2 Live Crew from what I can remember.

I think Jonah Hill is a hip hop fan and Meth has a small part in the movie.

I actually liked that movie although it was riddled with cheese.

I think This Is The End also had a good few well known hip hop tracks on it as well.

Jimmy Iovine · 15-12-2013 11:29AM

There's a French film called "A Prophet" that has a Nas track slap bang in the middle. It comes from nowhere. I lost all concentration and spent 2/3 minutes trying to figure out was it Nas or was I imagining things.

beano345 · 15-12-2013 12:03PM

Andy_rse wrote: »

Oh and La Haine has an absolutely amazing soundtrack of you don't mind a bit of French hip hop.

Cut killas remix of krs ones and no regrets is classic one of my favourite films too!

ButtersSuki · 15-12-2013 12:18PM

From my personal collection that haven't been mentioned:

Old school:
New Jack City
Mo' Money
Deep Cover
High School High
Boyz 'N Da Hood
Juice
Judgement Night
Less Than Zero (couple of tracks)
Menace II Society

Newer:
8 Mile

Jimmy Iovine · 15-12-2013 12:40PM

Notorious - if not for the music, then for the ladies.

Very happy that they included this scene. They even got the clothes correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIaXEfFboo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5uGcUKtSVE

Andy_rse · 15-12-2013 04:07PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I actually liked that movie although it was riddled with cheese.

I think This Is The End also had a good few well known hip hop tracks on it as well.

Yeah I like that kind of dumb movie, just switch off the brain. I like Jonah Hills stuff, enjoyed This Is The End and 21 Jump Street was class, Ice Cube was funny in it too (keeping the hip hop theme here)

This has to be the best hip hop track from a movie ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOzi5-AZXU

Jimmy Iovine · 15-12-2013 04:16PM

Andy_rse wrote: »

Yeah I like that kind of dumb movie, just switch off the brain. I like Jonah Hills stuff, enjoyed This Is The End and 21 Jump Street was class, Ice Cube was funny in it too (keeping the hip hop theme here)

This has to be the best hip hop track from a movie ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOzi5-AZXU

Yes. Forgot about that. My favourite movie when I was younger.

The children I'm teaching didn't know who Michael Jordan was last week so I showed them a video of him on YouTube. I grew up when he was at the peak of his powers. Kinda forget that it was so long ago.

Boom_Bap · 15-12-2013 09:37PM

21 Jump Street was excellent

In regards to La Heine, great movie, but the bit in the towers where the DJ points the speakers out the windows and starts cutting up is not on the soundtrack

Bobby Baccala · 15-12-2013 09:56PM

Bad boys

baddebt · 16-12-2013 09:42AM

here's a couple that have not been mentioned yet

lakeview Terrace http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947802/soundtrack

CB4 ,

Bulworth (crap film decent soundtrack)

Ghost dog

beano345 · 16-12-2013 11:21AM

"Bomb the system" film about graffiti artists music by el-p

movies with a hip-hop soundtrack?

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