#RunTheCulture The Get Out Movie, Jordan Peele’s first major motion picture, was a true game changer when it released. And since it’s Spooky SZN, we’re taking a look back at this breakout hit and instant horror #CultureClassic. Get Out is a satirical horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Black Panther’s Daniel Kaluuya as…
#RunTheCulture Scary Movie is a Spooky SZN game changing film. Put together by a legendary family of creators for The Culture, the film is one of the most successful of it’s kind of all-time. Scary Movie is a parody film that dropped in 2000. The film savagely and hilariously spoofed several late 1990’s teen horror films (Scream…
#RunTheCulture This week in #CultureClassics we have the classic song “Me, Myself, and I” by De La Soul. The song dropped in 1989 and was the lead single from their debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising (a hip-hop classic in it’s own right). The song and video helped to establish the group’s trademark style…
#RunTheCulture Juice is the 1992 movie best known for it’s banging soundtrack and launching the acting career of Tupac. But there is much more to the film that elevated it to true #CultureClassic status. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, and written by Dickerson and Gerard Brown. Juice is a crime thriller that stars Omar Epps, the aforementioned Tupac Shakur, Jermaine…
On this edition of #CultureClassics we proudly present to you a laid back summertime jam with a gangsta twist, “Today Was A Good Day” from legendary West Coast MC, Ice Cube.
The 1990’s were the heyday for black sitcoms and on this edition of #CultureClassics we’re celebrating one of the most popular and ground breaking black sitcoms of not only the 90’s but of all-time, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
#RunTheCulture Coming to America is one of the greatest comedies of all-time with no debate. So it’s only right we give it the #CultureClassic treatment. Before Wakanda, the African country The Culture wanted to migrate to was Zamunda. A fictional land introduced to us in 1988 in the film Coming to America. Coming to America is…
#RunTheCulture This week’s #CultureClassic is the cartoon The Proud Family tv show which premiered in 2001. The Proud Family was a rare cartoon. Rare because it follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl trying to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Cartoon shows are not normally led by black girls. Penny…
#RunTheCulture Many artists make hits, many artists have had hit debuts. But only a very select few can say they changed the game with the first song they dropped. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot is one of those artists. “The Rain” by Missy gets the love it deserves as a #CultureClassic. “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” dropped…
#RunTheCulture New Jack City was a game changing film. An instant #CultureClassic that still has influence in The Culture to this day. New Jack City is the 1991 crime drama directed by Mario Van Peebles (making his directorial debut). The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, and Mario Van Peebles himself and was released on March 8, 1991. Wesley Snipes…
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