A Mixed Bag Of Sorts: Hopsin 5 And Streetballers

Just a couple of quick-hitters today…came across an interesting song the other day…well, a music video actually. I think the song’s called “Ill Mind of Hopsin 5.” (I know, big reach considering that’s the title of the video.) The video itself is a little ehhh, I don’t love the guy’s voice, he is a little too preachy for me, and for some reason Hopsin looks like the hip-hop version of the black dude from “Community.” Those sound like a lot of reasons not to watch the clip, but I found the lyrics smart and interesting none of the less. Give it a shot.

Fun bad movie to watch of the week: Streetballers. Why is it that all of these “good” bad movies that I bring up are sports movies? I guess it’s pretty easy to build a story with sports as a backdrop…anyway, there were actually parts of the movie that were not terrible. The storyline is better than you’d expect, the movie is shot in an interesting (almost music video-ish) sort of way, and the actual basketball scenes are decent (for a s***ty movie at least). The acting is just so bad though…so, so bad. It’s not hard to figure out why. After scrolling through the list of cast members, you’ll see few (if any) other credits from any other film work. One thing that killed the movie for me was the continual use of this ghost neighborhood kid, and our 1st lead, John, constantly speaking to him like a crazy person. It would have been ok if he showed up like twice, but after the eighth ghost kid scene you wish John would get outed by his girlfriend and admitted to a mental hospital…end of movie. Also, there are 2 sex scenes and 1 other semi-sex scene that are so porno-ish and out of place that it’s comical.

Here we go again.

The 1 other interesting tidbit is that the other lead character, Jacob, is played by a dude that actual played ball at Missouri and got some run playing professionally overseas (according to his Wikipedia page at least)…so at least there’s that. Anyway, if you find yourself scrolling through Netflix, and you can’t seem to locate anything decent to watch that you haven’t already seen, give Streetballers a look…you will at least get a couple of laughs out of the sex scene dialogue if nothing else.

McKinney would probably get a lot of s*** from his German teammates if they ever saw this movie...good thing they probably don't even know it exists.