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As the haunting sounds of Isaac Hayes's 'Walk On By' filled the theater, I was moved by the film's enthralling, through depressing, conclusion. Larenz Tate's character, Anthony Curtis, rode off into the abyss that has prematurely claimed the lives of so many African American men, the penitentiary.
Introduction: Representin' the Real Pg. 1Chapter 1: Real Niggaz Don't Die: Generational Shifts in Contemporary Popular Culture. Pg. 16Chapter 2: Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and PopularCulture. Pg. 50Chapter 3: A Small Introduction to the 'G' Funk Era: Gangsta Rap and Black Masculinity in ContemporaryLos Angeles. Pg. 80Chapter 4: Young, Black, and Don't Give a Fuck: Experiencing the Cinema of Nihilism. Pg. 109Chapter 5: True to the Game: Basketball as the Embodiment of Blackness in Contemporary PopularCulture. Pg. 141Epilogue: Some New Improved Shit. Pg. 173