Inspired by SoulAlive's post: http://prince.org/msg/8/298102




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The template for the "Blaxploitation" genre.
A film based on "How to get the man's foot outta your ass."



Soundtrack to the film written by Van Peebles and performed by...



...Earth Wind & Fire


Just recently I saw a documentary on IFC, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

Melvin Van Peebles created a new style of African-American filmmaking in 1971, when on a shoestring budget he made Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a violent action picture about a sex-show stud on the run from the police that below the surface served as a call for revolution in the black community. But Sweet Sweetback was hardly Van Peebles' first or only bold achievement in the arts.

After brief careers piloting cable cars in San Francisco and flying fighter planes in the Korean War, Van Peebles moved to Paris, where he wrote five novels, became a regular contributor to an anarchist journal, and directed his first feature film, The Story of a Three-Day Pass. On the strength of its critical acclaim, Van Peebles returned to America and made his first (and only) major studio film, Watermelon Man, which helped him gather the money and connections it took to make Sweet Sweetback.

Alongside these cinematic triumphs, Van Peebles launched a recording career in the late '60s, making literate but streetwise albums that paved the way for rap and hip-hop, and staged a series of hit Broadway plays including Don't Play Us Cheap and Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. In the 1980s, Van Peebles switched careers and became a successful Wall Street options trader, and watched his son Mario Van Peebles become a star. (Mario would also go on to make a film about his dad's adventures making Sweet Sweetback, entitled Baadasssss!) How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) is a documentary made with Van Peebles' participation that looks back at his multi-faceted career and the brilliant, uncompromising man behind it all. The film includes interviews with a number of Van Peebles' colleagues and admirers, including Spike Lee, Gil Scott-Heron, Gordon Parks, and Elvis Mitchell.

http://www.ifc.com/movies...d-Enjoy-It



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...Brer Soul (1969) & As Serious as a heart-attack (1971)



Fans of Madlib have heard MVP's voice on...



...The Further Adventure of Lord Quas



tA

Tribal Disorder

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I have the soundtrack (which is performed by Earth Wind and Fire) but I've never seen this movie! Shame on me I gotta get the DVD.

wish I could find Brer Soul

btw, there's a 3rd Quasimoto album in the works. http://stonesthrow.com/ne...an-peebles

Man I need these on vinyl.... shit

"You bled my mamma
You bled my papa
But ya won't bleed me."

I've never seen the original movie either, but I've got Mario's "Badass" film on DVD and it's quite good.

Has a cameo appearance from Adam West (a.k.a TV's original Batman)

My pops took me to see this.. this movie I need to own again

IAintTheOne said:

Do you remember...



...Putney Swope?


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theAudience said:

yes I remember that... Holy shit

IAintTheOne said:

I thought that'd take you back.


Back to the days of the troglodyte.


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IAintTheOne said:

I got Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song on DVD

For a moment by seeing the title, i thought it was about this :



Carry on

theAudience said:

gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a woman

theAudience said:

Hell yeah....

"Ethereal Cereal"


"I heard you just fired Odinga!"

"How'd you hear about that so fast?"

"The Drum!"








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paligap said:

That one and a few other "commericials" :







...FACE-OFF (featuring a young Ronnie Dyson)




...FAN-A-WAY


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Tribal Disorder

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