Rogue Pictures
Loving the font, has a very 70’s urban feel to it.
Dave’s dream come
true: The gist; Dave Chappelle is throwing a block party with all your favorite
hip-hop and R&B artists, and he’s inviting random people off the streets to
attend the festivities. Now lemme start by saying I
freakin’ love this thing. It’s gonna be hard to hate-bash it, but I’ll try my
darndest. Even harder without pigeonholing myself into all the obvious
stereotypes running rampant throughout the trailer, all perpetrated by Mr.
Chappelle himself, might I add. And it’s something he can obviously do very
well as evidenced in various scenes, and that’s what makes it so gosh-darn funny
(I’m trying to act my whitest, here).
Giving back to the fans.
Don’t shoot the
messenger: Among the various clichés, Dave yells out his bullhorn at the
people whom he refers to as The Huxtables, telling them to bring Rudy, Theo, so
on and so forth… for those who weren’t only born in the last decade and have
turned on the TV at least once in your lives, even if it was by mistake, you’ll
understand the reference. Later he shouts something about there being BBQ
chicken for lunch, and towards the end during a basketball game he laughs that
he’s playing the white people for freedom. What a class act.
Dave makes like The Doobie Brothers by takin’ it to the streets.
Black Jesus:
While brandishing a stack of tickets for the event, Dave makes a crack about
feeling like Willy Wonka with his Golden Tickets, but he reminds me a lot more
of Ed McMahon giving away Million Dollar Sweepstakes (remember that? No? Go buy
yourself a TV), ‘cuz when he’s handing out those suckers to the unsuspecting
masses, the looks on their faces rivals those of a pre-pubescent teen stealing
his very first smut magazine.
Dave’s Golden Tickets.
“Ready or not, here I
come”: I can’t say I’m a big fan of any of these showcased artists save for
Cody ChesnuTT, but obviously (and hopefully) that won’t hinder on my viewing
pleasure. Whenever I would catch an episode of Chappelle’s Show, I would almost
always change the channel during his last commercial break because I couldn’t
care less about which hip-hop artist he would feature during the end segment.
I’ve never been a big fan and I doubt I ever will be. My too bad, I guess. But
hey, he did it. Chappelle freakin’ did it. He reunited the famed Fugees. God
bless
Is there anything the man can’t do? Now I watched this trailer over and over
again, very carefully, with great attention to detail, pausing it frame by
frame (really put a kink in my day I might add), but I still couldn’t find a
single moment where Lauryn Hill collapses. She seemed to be doing a lot of that
lately. Guess we’ll haveta wait and see.
Just a few of the various acts performing.
You may feel
otherwise: Seeing Talib Kweli shuffled in there left a bad taste in my
mouth. It reminded me of the time I saw him open for The Beastie Boys over a
year ago and how badly he sucked the shaft. Again, not a major fan of the
genre, so you may not agree. But seeing him prompted me to think of another
artist, K-OS, who also sucked major balls when I saw him open for Ben Harper,
and a small sense of relief that he doesn’t seem to be part of this. Again, my opinion, not yours. Maybe Dave hates Canadians.
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