u/TheOddscreen is tied up with SXSW, so I decided to pick up the slack this week with my favorite hip hop movie soundtrack for this week's Listening Club.
Background:
Released under The Def Jam South imprint, the album was spearheaded by appearances from Ludacris and several of his Disturbing Tha Peace crew members like Chingy, Shawna, I-20, and 2 Chainz (when he still went by Tity Boi), and other Def Jam rappers or affiliates. Joe Budden's "Pump it Up" was the leading single to this album, which I thought was interesting to note considering that this soundtrack came out before Joe Budden's first album, thus his biggest song's album debut was not on his own. The album's second single, "Act A Fool" became the film's theme song and Ludacris did a great job of setting the tone with this track, and outlandish car features described add to his character's and the film's idea of doing the most with your car.
Let's take it to the streets 'cause I'm ready to cruise
Just bought me and my cars all some brand new shoes
And the people just stare so I love to park it
And I just put a computer in the glove compartment
With my pedal to the floor, radar in the grille
TV in the middle of my steering wheel
It's my car's birthday so we blowin' them candles
More speakers in the trunk than my ride can handle
Got my name in the headrest, read it and weep
NOS tank in the back, camel hair on the seat
This is my favorite hip hop movie soundtrack as some of the songs played in the movie add so much to the scene it's playing in, giving character to not only the moment, but to some of the cars as well. I always think back to hearing Pitbull's Oye playing right when Brian and Roman are shown the Eclipse and the EVO, and the scene soon after where we are introduced to the Dodge Charger and Challenger, set to the tune of Trick Daddy's Represent. Speaking of which, it was cool to have both rappers featured in this soundtrack considering the film was set in Miami. Another pivotal song moment that always stuck out to me was 8Ball's "Hands In The Air" which served to compliment the main antagonist in the club scene before his big villain moment.
Wanted to close out this with a quote by John Singleton from his Hollywood Reporter interview on the production of 2 Fast 2 Furious which I thought was relevant in discussing this album:
It was awesome. The heads of the studio at the time were just like, just make it fun, make it cool, make it this gen. I didn’t do all that techno music that they did in the first movie. I used nothing but Southern Hip Hop which was like the rage at the time. I just funked it up, I made it more multi-ethnic. They kind of followed the paradigm that I set up.
Album: 2 Fast 2 Furious: The Soundtrack
Label: Def Jam South
Producer: Various
Representing: Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida
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