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The Chef….in the kitchen. LOL @ the ebonics in the beginning but I like how Rae is showing a more personable side of himself. – DREA
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Trouble the Water
This will air on HBO April 23rd @ 8:30 pm ET/PT . I’ll definitely be watching.
- DREA
MIKE EPPS TO RELEASE FUNNY BIDNESS DVD
VIA KOCH ENTERTAINMENT
COMEDIAN MIKE EPPS TO RELEASE COMEDY DVD FUNNY BIDNESS ON APRIL 7TH, 2009
DEBUT CD, GREAT EPPSPECTATIONS, TO BE RELEASED ON MAY 19th, 2009
(New York, NY) – After years of making us laugh with his long-running standup comedy tours and film roles, Mike Epps is finally set to release his second comedy DVD, “Funny Bidness,” the long awaited follow up to his 2006 Platinum-selling “Inappropriate Behavior.” The DVD is a fusion of Epps’ stand up material and his Man of the Street series across the country.
The DVD will be followed by Epp’s debut CD, Great Eppspectations. The CD features Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, T.I and Slim Thug. The album combines Epps’ off the wall humor with solid hip hop beats to create some of the funniest tracks around. The album is being released by E1 Music on May 19, 2009.
The hilarious video for the first single, “Big Girls,” was recently added to BET.
Epps also has two feature films to be released this year. First he will star in the Summit Films comedy “Next Day Air” alongside Mos Def and Donald Faison, due in theatres May 8, 2009. Then Epps will light up the screen again in “Janky Promoters,” the highly anticipated comedic reteaming of Epps and Ice Cube due out July 2009 for Dimension Films. The film was directed by long-time music video director Marcus Raboy whose has helmed the videos of such music stars as Sean Kingston, Sting, Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G., Santana and countless others.
Epps first gained notoriety when he appeared in 1995 on the Def Comedy Jam tour and appeared on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam Broadcasts. Since then, Epps has cultivated a stellar film career and has appeared in such films as Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, All About the Benjamins, Next Friday, Bait, How High, Friday After Next, Talk To Me, The Fighting Temptations, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Roll Bounce, Something New, Guess Who, and The Honeymooners. Epps was also the voice of Sonny in Dr. Doolittle 2 and had a hilarious cameo in the 08 blockbuster Hancock.
In 2007, Epps’ one-hour comedy show Inappropriate Behavior aired on HBO and was one of the networks top rated specials of the year. When Epps isn’t filming, he is busy touring the country performing his stand-up.
For more on Mike Epps, please visit www.myspace.com/eppisodes.
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Also, Mike Epps is on tour. He hits Constitution Hall in DC next month. Man, I hope to be there.- DREA
Lil Kim Rejects Notorious (so do I)
I see where Kim is coming from actually. Cheo Hodari Coker, the writer of this utterly wack Notorious film, is full of shit. The movie depicts Kim, at best, as a glorified jump off (and I’m actually being generous). If I remember correctly, Biggie smashed before a first date. Hell, a meet up at a Mickey D’s drive thru would have been less presumptuous on Kim’s part. I’d be irate if I was Kim too. I’m not saying that her portrayal wasn’t believable because much of Biggie’s audience probably already made that assumption about their relationship way before this film.
But I’m actually not that concerned about Kim’s portrayal in the film. It’s really the fact that Coker screwed up what could have been a decent film on one of our great MCs. I was honestly left a little disheartened after seeing this flick. The entire film was basically a mélange of scenes that did nothing but rehash all of the things we already knew or assumed about Biggie (ex. Kim and Pac’s portrayal). Not to mention the extreme bias in point of view. Apparently, even Charlie Baltimore was surprised that the major car crash she and Biggie experienced got no reference whatsoever in the film. Mind you this was a car crash that left Big hospitalized in critical condition (remember his cane in Life after Death?) and was the reason his last album ended up being a double disc LP. So thanks for the lazy ass script writing Coker. I’ll never forgive you for depicting Pac in such an asinine way. – DREA
NOTORIOUS
This film is glaringly straight to DVD worthy. My main gripe with this movie is the casting choices (among other things) yet Bassett and Luke are the only reasons I’d go see it (which I most likely will). Go figure. – DREA
