Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “There was a lot of resistance to Hustle & Flow,” Brewer recalls. “People were saying, ‘Should we care about a pimp rapping?’ But ...

On this day 20 years ago, Hustle & Flow hit theaters and flipped the script on how Hollywood viewed Southern hip hop and independent Black storytelling as a whole. Led by Terrence Howard in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Hoop Street" has yet to screen in the city where it was conceived and produced, but the feature film about a struggling young ...

Being a white guy from Memphis clearly hasn't kept filmmaker Craig Brewer from getting down with the gritty barbeque-and-blues essence of the sleepy Southern city in his jamming little underdog movie ...

On this date in 2005, T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records delivered the official soundtrack to the gritty Memphis-based film Hustle & Flow, a release that would leave a lasting mark on both Hip-Hop and ...

Anthony Anderson let it all flow on set of Hustle & Flow. "We got high in a scene 'cause we were supposed to be smoking a joint on the porch," Anderson recalled. "And I was like, 'F--- it. Let's be ...

The Memphis-made film "Hoop Street" will premiere at the Porretta Film Festival in Italy. The screening is part of a "Film Exchange" between Memphis and Porretta Terme, Italy. Craig Brewer's ...