Rhymefest says that, based on the trailer of Spike Lee’s forthcoming Chi-Raq movie and a version of the script he’d received from an actor who was asked to be in the film, the director owes Chicago an apology.
“I saw the trailer,” Rhymefest says of Lee’s movie, which is based in Chicago and includes a portrayal of gang culture in the Illinois city, during an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times. “It looks just like the script I read, and it verified everything I thought. I was more shocked when I saw the trailer than when I was reading the script. I grieved for the 9-year-old little boy who was shot [Tyshawn Lee], and now a comedy [Chi-Raq] is being made about death in Chicago.”
Chi-Raq’s plot follows that of the comedic Greek mythological tale of Lysistrata, in which women withhold sex from their men in order to end the Peloponnesian War. The women in the Chi-Raq trailer say they will employ similar tactics.
“THAT’S how we want to depict our community?” Rhymefest says, “THAT’S the answer?
“I’m a fan of Spike Lee, and also fan of some of the films he has made,” Rhymefest adds elsewhere in the interview. “But this is a perfect example of somebody not from Chicago who comes to Chicago and exploits the violence and the situation without leaving anything sustainable in its place.”
Yesterday, such Chicago rappers as Lil Bibby, Lil Reese, Lil Durk, Ric Wilson and Rhymefest criticized Chi-Raq via social media.
“That Chiraq trailer look like a Parody,” Lil Bibby said.
Why should anyone care about Chiraq when even Chiraq savages don’t care about themselves?
Critics of Black Lives Matter use Chicago as an example to fuel their argument, saying that black people don’t care about themselves so why should anyone else.
Get educated, take a film class, read a book, etc. Fuck, why does everyone think the movie has to be just a mere reflection of the violence we saw on the news? Why can’t Spike be allowed to do something more with it??
To be honest it doesn’t even look all that funny.
So based on your logic, people should not listen to rappers from Chicago,fuck that Chi-raq b.s.name, Chicago because you cats ain’t from the Mecca of Hip-Hop.
Bad Idea Spike and ima fan but this is a slap in the face he couldve used a different city or at least changed the title smh
There’s very good chance this movie flies over the heads of these ignorant rappers. The movie cannot be described as comedy, it may use humor as satire at most, which these rappers have no way to understand.
correction: “which these CHICAGO rappers have no way to understand.” they the dumb niggas lol
The fuck you talking bout rhymefest? Messages can be sent anyway the artist chooses! Just cause you dont like it doesn’t mean its message isnt accurate….
On a side Note why haven’t I given up on the intelligence of humanity????
I think you should wait to the movie comes out and reserve judgment. The movie he did Bamboozled could also be taken this way but most people left that movie in tears. The movie was much deeper and this one is probably the same way so I would wait to see the entire movie before passing judgment.
Chicago is a hell hole. The stupidity and ignorance of its brain dead black youth deserves to be parodied.
Clowns killing each over twitter insults and goodness knows what else.
Skap in tge face is the name itself. Only blacks can turn an American city into a hell hole similar to a war torn city in the Middle East. Savages
Was al capone black?
a million rappers can glorify it. slim jesus can make a complete mockery of it. cartoons can parody it. but when a celebrated, talented, black director uses a famous greek comedy to highlight chicago’s violence, the line is drawn? get the fuck out of here.