Rick Famuyiw Film Analysis

Rick Famuyiwa is no stranger of African-American cinema, with credits going back to The Wood, Brown Sugar, Talk to Me, and Dope. Dope is a thought-provoking film, to say the least, watching this film, I saw a fascinating concept of old school Hip Hop that collides with a new quirky generation. There are three high school kids, that couldn’t be any, more opposite than the Hip Hop they love. They all grow up in Inglewood Ca, or “The Wood” as it’s affectionately known, which happens to be a diverse neighborhood. An African American, an Indian, and an African American female who happens to be a homosexual, what’s even more interesting is they are geeks, total squares, but they do their own thing! What's also interesting here is that the three friends don’t see color, they see individuals, and they live by the lyrics to A Tribe Called Quest’s 90’s classic hip hop song “Sucker Nigga”. I like the song but I cringe every time I hear the “N” word or anything remotely close.
Malcolm, the main character refuses to be swallowed up by his
what he did and how he did it also that he and AJ are from the same place and all of the assumptions that are attached, and he wants to have an opportunity to go to Harvard. I love the end when Malcolm told a story of “two students”,” Geek or Menace”, and states how he has been caught in between most of his life, meaning “how I really am, and how I’m perceived. This one line is a struggle that African American men deal with daily. With that being said; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva hit the nail on the head by writing: “Despite whites’ belief that residential and school segregation, friend-ship, and attraction are natural and raceless occurrences, social scientists have documented how racial considerations affect all these issues. (87)” Malcolm had aspirations to do more with his life, than what was expected of him in the eyes of