Hello, fellow movie friends. I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with

poet Nick George about the movie that changed his life, Brown Sugar. It's okay if you've never

seen the movie. We're going to give you all the details you need to follow along, and get ready

to enjoy some classic hip-hop. My Melo, my man, you get on the mic and rock this jam.

But I was on the 41 bus reading the news. Here comes grammar and she steps on my shoes. Smile, although I was quite disgusted. I said, what's the matter? Grand ears, your blind assed us. The day I saw Slick Rick, who went by Ricky Dee back then, Dana Dane and Dougie Fresh, Battle in the Bronx was the day I truly met hip hop. Little did I know a year later, Ricky D. Back then, Dana Dane and Dougie Fresh Battle in the Bronx was the day I truly met hip hop.

Little did I know a year later, Ricky D would join the Get Fresh crew and record the hip hop classic, The Show.

And of course, the B-side, La-di-Dadi.

Hip-hop was as young, naive, confused, sometimes innocent, and sometimes as mischievous as I was.

And as I grew up...

Later Dre.

Hit hop grew with me.

And along the way it took on all my baggage.

My dreams.

I felt hip hop and hip hop felt me.

Yo, good evening ladies and jens close and distant fan.

Let me break it down for y'all exactly who I am.

When I first saw Brown Sugar, I was completely taken over by the music, of course.

It's the first thing you notice about the movie.

The wonderful tribute to hip-hop, an ode love letter, however you want to call it to hip-hop,

that permeates every scene in the movie.

But the thing that really carried me through watching it over and over and over again was the relationship between Sydney, played by Sanat-Lathen, and Dre, played by Taye Diggs.

Their relationship is as equals.

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