He read it on the plane back and got on board straight away. Tim was doing Rob Roy in Scotland when I sent him the script. That's the way it usually goes in Hollywood. Then Tupac's record company came up with the money and PolyGram turned around and said, 'Hey, we always liked this movie' (laughs). It's like saying you can't do two romantic comedies. Then PolyGram had just put Trainspotting out and were like, 'We can't do two movies about heroin.' I didn't know anything about Trainspotting.
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And people were expecting it to be a real depressing movie about a couple of dope fiends.
It wasn't that easy because it was about smack, which is a bit of a taboo subject here. I remembered that when it came to writing my first movie. So we ended up wandering around from place to place, no one giving us any help. We were doing a bit of everything and were both sixteen, living with our folks, so we couldn't give our address in case they got to know about what we were doing. Next day, we went to try and get into rehab. One day my best friend, the bassist, and I were sitting around and decided that maybe we could actually play better if we weren't stoned all the time.
That was the way we thought we could play faster guitar, write better songs. It's largely autobiographical, with a lot of it coming from the time when I was a teenager in Detroit, playing guitar and singing in bands. In addition, Bokeem Woodbine appears repeatedly – though uncredited – as drug dealer Mud, while D Reper is played by the film's writer and director, Vondie Curtis-Hall Curtis-Hall's wife and then-baby, Kasi Lemmons and Henry Hunter Hall, appear briefly as the Madonna and Child. Thandiwe Newton as Cookie (credited as Thandie Newton).The reissues can be bought via Death Row here. The legendary label's decision to reissue certain titles via cassette reflects an increase in cassette sales in recent times. Last month, it was announced that a new documentary about former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and the late Dick Griffey, Death Row catapulted West Coast hip-hop in the spotlight throughout the early '90s, releasing some of the most iconic rap albums of all time. Dre's 1992 debut album 'The Chronic', 2Pac's 1996 LP 'All Eyez On Me' and 'The Don Killuminati (7 Day Theory)’, recorded under 2Pac's Makaveli alias one month before his death.įounded by Dr. The reissue is the latest in Death Row's string of film soundtrack re-releases, which has also included Gang Related, Gridlock’d, which also starred 2Pac, and the 18-minute short, Murder Was The Case.īeyond soundtracks, Death Row is also making Snoop Dogg's breakthrough album 'Doggystyle' available on cassette, as well as Dr.
The soundtrack also features a rare fan favourite from 2Pac and Stretch, 'Pain', which you can hear below.
As part of its 30th birthday celebrations, Death Row Records has reissued the soundtrack for Above The Rim on cassette.ĭirected by Jeff Pollack, the 1994 film stars 2Pac and Marlon Wayans, among others, and is the story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with a drug dealer and a former basketball star. The soundtrack features the likes of Warren G and Nate Dogg's classic 'Regulate', as well as tracks by artists including Jonny "J", DeVante Swing and Dr.
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