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And we continue here with our American story.

Since being released in 1983,

Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders, has found continued popularity and has achieved official cult status. And now in what is surely one of the most interesting pop culture intersections, hip-hop artist Danny Boy O'Connor from the rap group House of Pain,

best known for their iconic 1992 Anthem Jump Around, purchased the Tulsa Oklahoma home where much of the outsider's film was shot.

Here to tell this story is the man himself. Here's Danny Boy.

My story really begins... Los Angeles, California.

1983, when I went

unknowingly to a movie that I had never heard of,

Woodland Hills, California, called The Outsiders

with my friend Steve Sikolsky, who

just happened to read the book. I believe I was in seventh grade, and so he was a fan of the book, and he wanted to see the movie. He said, Danny, you want to go see a movie with me? And I thought, sure, Steve Sikolsky, a pretty cool junior high kid that I knew so I figured you know if he likes it

it would probably be something I like but I had no idea what we were gonna go

see I didn't have any frame of reference and on that fateful Saturday afternoon

we went in and saw the movie and I came out a changed man and people ask me all

the time what was my fascination with the outsiders And the movie kind of hit me at a time where I definitely felt out of place in the San Fernando Valley in the 80s, being a native New Yorker who was moved to California at the age of six and kind of always

had like a strong connection to the East Coast. So Southern California in the 80s looked

a lot different than New York City did. And I don't know, I just always felt, you know,

separate and apart from. And I got that from the movie as well.

And I grew up, my father went to prison when I was two months old.

We moved in with my grandparents.

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