The Cultural Relevance of ‘Boyz N The Hood,’ 30 Years Later

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Writer and director John Singleton’s 1991 debut film “Boyz N the Hood,” centered on the coming of age of a Black man in South Central Los Angeles named Tre. Played by Cuba Gooding Jr., Tre learns lessons about Black manhood, cyclical violence and gentrification from his father, played by Laurence Fishburne, and his neighbors, with standout performances by Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut. Some critics called the film the cinematic equivalent of N.W.A.’s music, from which it draws its title, for drawing attention to the high mortality rates of and mainstream apathy to the plight of those residing in majority-Black neighborhoods in 1990s Los Angeles County. We’ll talk about the characters, moments and themes from the film that have stayed with us, three decades later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:36.3	One of the most remembered scenes in the 1991 film Boys in the Hood is when Trey and Ricky, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Morris Chestnut, get an
1:45.0	impromptu lesson on gentrification from Furious Styles, played by Lawrence Fishburn.
1:51.8	It's called gentrification. That's what happens when the property value of a certain area is brought
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