Maintenance men mop up sidewalks crusty with blood. Herb’s lyrics, however, are so clear that they thoroughly simulate the dark, twisted fantasies of shooters everywhere. It makes sense that the cold-blooded rap coming out of Chicago today might indirectly be related to a murder or two, just as Grand Theft Auto or anything else can conceivably inspire violence. Crip, while Herb and the equally ascendant Lil Bibby are the most visible members of Chicago’s No Limit Muskegon Boys.) The two projects are vastly different in temperament, running g-rap’s emotional gamut from sorrow to celebration, peace to war. For their part, Schoolboy Q, with Oxymoron, and Lil Herb, with his debut mixtape, Welcome to Fazoland, don’t just depict gang life faithfully. What’s missing from the Crips and Bloods of Colors is the dimension of, say, the irascible Roland Bishop (Tupac Shakur) in 1992’s J uice. The assumption is that Whitey is stupid-high or maybe just plain stupid the point is the movie doesn’t address it. There’s also the red-haired actor Courtney Gains, credited but never named in the movie as Whitey, who spends all his time on-screen with the same doofy face: everything scrunched, nose pointed at the sky, front teeth showing even though he’s not smiling.

Colors was one of Don Cheadle’s first movies-he plays a solemn, nonsmoking Crip named Rocket-but there was no indication that the 23-year-old from Missouri, in a blue bandanna like the rest of the Crips, was going to be the star he is today. When I watched it a couple months back, though, I was disappointed that, despite the movie’s focus on the relationship between Los Angeles Crips and Bloods (though more focus is placed on Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, and the heavily mustached rest of the LAPD), the gang members in the movie are practically unknowable.

Today, in the first installment, he discusses the emotional gamut found within new releases from gangsta rappers Schoolboy Q and Lil Herb-plus, new mixtapes and a Lil Boosie playlist in light of the rapper’s release from prison last week.Ĭolors, the Dennis Hopper-directed police procedural movie from 1988, is just fine, even if it’s aged terribly. Trappers and Philosophers is a new hip-hop column by Michael Madden.

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