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Old 02-20-2008, 11:42 AM   #9 of 11
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Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: American Gangster 2-Disc Edition - Recommended


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Originally Posted by Mike Williams
the hip hop featurettes actually make more sense considering there are three hip-hop artists featured prominently in the film: T. I., Common and RZA from Wu-Tang Clan.
I'll grant you that three major hip-hop artists appear in the film but the movie itself neither features nor has anything to do with hip-hop music (especially considering its early 1970s setting pre-dates modern hip-hop). At the risk of sounding like a pc alarmist and without actually having seen the hip-hop related bonus features in question, it seems to me that these features' inclusion on the "American Gangster" DVD merely serves to reinforce the stereotypical association of modern hip-hop music with violent drug dealers.
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