Belly (1998)

It’s Neo noir week for this month’s theme of BODY & SOUL (black directors, black leads) and we hit up a very stylish feature film that was popular amongst the teens and college aged crowd when Bob was a youngster so many years ago. Hype Williams only feature film was paved the way by a plethora of rap, hip-hop & R&B music videos that he directed throughout the 90s. Hype expanded all of his visual knowledge into a what is essentially a long rap video. That’s not a bad thing as it feels distinct amongst crime films to this very day. Of course we’re talking about the 1998 film “BELLY” starring Nas, DMX (RIP), T-Boz, Taral Hicks, Louie Rankin and many more. This one takes us back to when MTV would actually inform us of things and we’d all sit around getting high and watch “Gummo”. Buns and Sincere are a lot like us putting aside the robbing and killing of website managers of nightclubs. Are they forever trapped in the Belly of the Beast? (Omaha Nebraska) Can they get out and get to Africa before the Jamaican ninjas come? Will they gain knowledge and inspiration represented through spectacles? We will see but I do think that if you went to church near midnight on New Years Eve in 1999 then that is definitely weird as hell. 

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