Bodega Box Office Podcasts

Writer and rap scholar Abe Beam (Passion of The Weiss) came through to discuss ABOVE THE RIM, an alleged classic and Tupac Shakur's final film to be released in his lifetime. We discuss basketball, whether the film is any good, Tupac's riveting performance. https://twitter.com/TheFakeAbeBeameBy Bodega Box Office

April Fools! Anthony picked an absolute banger. Jane Fonda's 1980 labor screed + any rap that has ever been affiliated with it. Plus, we got a new mic. Sorry we're late.By Bodega Box Office

@VyceVictus from the Action For Everyone Podcast came through to discuss NOBODY (2021) starring Bob Odenkirk, RZA and Christopher Lloyd. We get to go deeper on the art of an action film, and of course get to explore our usual paranoia, wrapping the whole thing up with some international RZA bangers.By Bodega Box Office

A sub-60 minute banger, written, directed, produced by and starring Andre Nickatina. Ryan gets educated. Ant lets him know. Also an opportunity to play a ton of Nickatina's music.By Bodega Box Office

The legend Sean McTiernan (@nochorus on twitter - Live at The Death Factory is the podcast) came through to discuss Den of Thieves starring 50 Cent and Gerard Butler in ABSOLUTE UNIT mode. Yeah its HEAT for dum dums, but isn't that actually a good thing? Speaking of Heat, Ant brought it with his track selections. Stick around.https://twitter.com/No…

Rah Digga returns! We discuss the Jersey MC's performance in Thirteen Ghosts, a film destined to break the brains of horror "aficionados" everywhere.By Bodega Box Office

Shout out to this listener-submitted request! A completely bonkers crime drama from 2008 starring Busta Rhymes, Sticky Fingaz, Armand Assante, and Tom Berenger's Liquor Face.By Bodega Box Office

This found footage style film doesn't star any major rappers, but it definitely stands squarely in "rap movie" territory, following stick up man Curtis Snow as he steals and fights to get by in an Atlanta neighborhood known as "The Bluff"By Bodega Box Office

April Fools style, we watched CHESS: The Musical...for reasons.By Bodega Box Office

We finally watched the 2003 classic I ACCIDENTALLY DOMED YOUR SON starring Kurupt. No film has made it more clear how broken we are by this whole rap movie exercise. Or maybe we're just better for it. It's got a script! Good sound! Good jokes! Kurupt is in it! We loved it, so of course Ant had to dig up some unreleased Kurupt to celebrate.…

REST IN POWER TINY 'ZEUS' LISTER. We rushed an episode to pay homage to a fallen demigod. The president of the damn galaxy.By Bodega Box Office

It's Spooky Season, so we had to do our internet-mandated "horror" episode. So we dug up QUEEN OF THE DAMNED, a horror "musical"(?) featuring songs by Jonathan Davis of Korn and starring none other than Aaliyah. We REALLY try and talk about Aaliyah, but we also talk a lot about Korn's surprising crossovers into the rap world. We do find time to pla…

After getting ROASTED on University of Dope for not having seen 1995's DEAD PRESIDENTS, we finally watched this classic Vietnam epic, starring Sticky Fingaz, Heather B, Larenz Tate, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael Imperioli, Chris Tucker, Keith David, Clifton Powell, Terrence Howard, and many more.Directed by the Hughes Brothers, this was the follow up to…

Sean came through to discuss D-Shot's film DON'T GET CAUGHT starring E-40, Snoop Dogg, B-Legit, Bushwick Bill, Mike Epps and many more.The music part starts at 1:05 and goes about an hour.By Bodega Box Office

Chris from the Bad Wrestling Podcast (@badwrespodcast) came through to talk about that one time in 1999 when Master P, Silk The Shocker and C-Murder all graced the WCW squared circle to do battle with some rap-hating cowboys from Minnesota.It's a lot. It's a wrestling thing so most of the episode is just me asking dumb questions and these two wrest…

We watched the rap musical. We attempt to answer the question of "why" it is rap, and "what" are the weirder implications of giving the founding fathers this treatment. Filmmaker and critic Scout Tafoya (@honors_zombie) joins us to try and figure it out. And Anthony had a baby! So we get to celebrate that before we spend a lot of time well...not ce…

Abe Beame (@TheFakeAbeBeame) came through to discuss The Carter, the 2008 documentary following Lil Wayne in the portentous months before his greatest success with The Carter III. Its a dark look at his incredible (and incredibly self destructive) creative process at a time when there was literally no one better on the mic. Abe pitched this episode…

We finally did it! Nate from the Kings of Sport podcast came through to watch the Outkast musical, IDLEWILD starring Big Boi, Andre 3000, Terrence Howard, Macy Gray and more. We all have strong opinions about Outkast, so we get into our feelings pretty quick on this one. We struggle, but ultimately find a lot to love in this messy masterpiece. We a…

For a few short weeks, ESPN's The Last Dance was the best piece of basketball content on the planet. Well here's the second best. We watched 1993's MTV Rock and Jock Basketball. The third annual, which overlaps tidily with The Last Dance. Its got Dan Majerle, Rick Mahorn, Ed Lover, Bill Bellamy, Dan Cortez, Tag Team performing at half time, Jon Ste…

Watch this movie! It's free on Youtube and it's great. Mack 10 and Fat Joe play one time rivals turned business partners caught between hustling and the creative process. It was produced by Mack 10 himself with some help by Priority Films, and it has everyone in it - Ice Cube, Big Pun, B-Real, Krayzie and Layzie Bone, MC Eiht as a guy who sucks at …

HUSTLERS was one of the best films of 2019 and we watched it with our good friend Abbey. We talk a lot about the 2008 financial crash, feature some rappers who were also strippers, and we collectively freak out over THAT scene. You know the one.Abbey is @drunkhousewife on InstagramBy Bodega Box Office

The Master of Disguise film starring Dana Carvey has been a longtime running joke between us and Brandon Soderberg, an incredible writer from Baltimore. We always said we'd find a way to talk about it through a rap lens, and April Fools seemed like the right opportunity, given the success of our SPICE WORLD Episode.So that's what we did. We had a c…

We did it! Critic and Filmmaker Scout Tafoya (@honors_zombie) returns to the show to talk about ANACONDA, a 90 minute classic starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube. There are too many dick jokes, just enough Jon Voigt impressions, Anthony losing the will to live, a covert CATS podcast (at 55 minutes in) and a TRULY horrid musical drop. You have been…

We did it! We watched the movie that is long. Action Bronson made his acting debut in the last five seconds of a five hour movie. Sean McTiernan, Irish movie genius and now one of the few non-suspect Yotubers came through to watch and discuss this Action Bronson classic. The episode is also long. Because we are good at podcasting.Watch Sean's Youtu…

We made it! Episode 100 so you know we had to do a classic. Proud to say we didn't fuck it up, except for the abysmal live commentary we tried to record but we won't talk about that. It's a great episode covering what is arguably patient zero for the rap movie movement.By Bodega Box Office

Rest in power Rip Torn! The passing of a legend, paired with the fact that Canadian TV personality Tom Green is a real-deal rapper was enough reason to watch this monument to weird cinema. Freddy Got Fingered is the film Tom Green wrote and directed when he was at the height of his fame, and there is no way in hell this film could have been made at…

We watched a 4th of July CLASSIC. Sike its not really a classic. Its no ROLL BOUNCE, thats for sure. But it IS a chance for us to talk a lot about T-Pain, and Field Mob too for some reason. So there's that.By Bodega Box Office

Machine Gun Kelly is a rapper. He is in a movie about Motley Crue. Which is enough of a reason for us to watch a movie about Motley Crue for this silly silly podcast. As you might guess, we talk a LOT about Crue, but we do find some time at the end to discuss other rappers from Cleveland, and a little bit about Machine Gun Kelly's beef with Eminem.…

We celebrate the career of the late John Singleton by watching one of his classics. Higher Learning, starring Ice Cube and Busta. But this isn't a straight eulogy. Still the same two idiots talking about a rap movie.By Bodega Box Office

Austin Vesely's SLICE is a movie where werewolves, ghosts and other crazy shit all live in the same city. Its also about delivery drivers. And corruption. And it has Chance The Rapper in it. Its great. And we watched it.By Bodega Box Office

Capitalizing on a trending topic, we watched TWO documentaries because Ja Rule was involved in the most legendary, most greasy scam of our stupid lifetimes: The Fyre Festival, brought to you by Billy McFarland and Jeffrey Atkins.By Bodega Box Office

Happy New Year! To celebrate, we watched GET HARD, a studio comedy that starts as a dick joke but expands to include such HILARIOUS topics as white collar crime, murder, white supremacy, incarceration rates among people of color and prison sexual assault! Hilarious! It also has T.I. as a west-coast style thug archetype with a mind for investments.…

We're back! Just in time for the end of the year, we're hitting you with our fav movies (that we watched for the podcast) of 2018, music we liked this year, podcasts we loved this year, political moves we hated this year and of course, NBA moves that were at least interesting. We also played a lot of music. Have a happy holiday folks. Movie episode…

We're back after a short hiatus, just in time for October to watch our requisite horror movie. We watched Urban Menace, an Albert Pyun film where someone did something awful to the film stock and yet still released it. We also got to talk about Big Pun, which is a rare gift on this stupid stupid podcast.…

New type of episode! Office hours is where we can fit in all the movie-adjacent stuff, rap stuff, basketball stuff and random bullshit we usually can't get to in an episode. This time we discuss Freddie Gibbs, 03 Greedo, Nas rapping in French, LeBron to the Lakers, Is Belly Good? And Ryan meeting The Lox.…

Rushing this episode out because EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO SEE THIS MOVIE. We watched Boots Riley's vision SORRY TO BOTHER YOU starring Lakeith Stanfield as a broke Oakland telemarketer who gets a major key from none other than Danny Glover. What's that major key? If you want to succeed in business, use your "white voice". And Cassius just so happens to…

Inspired by the incredible Rammellzee exhibit at Red Bull Studios, we decided to watch one of his film performances in the CLASSIC film WILD STYLE. We don't completely blow it, but we do spend a lot of time talking about his work, and a little less on the other artists in the film. But there are probably 40 other podcasts that cover Wild Style so w…

We went to the movies to watch the SUPERFLY remake, featuring a soundtrack produced by Future, starring Big Boi, Zaytoven, Rick Ross, Big Bank Black, Al Nuke. Anthony was exhausted, I was full of energy, it ended up being a great time.By Bodega Box Office

Crazy times here at Bodega HQ. We're not able to get an episode together in time for this week's release, so we're going into the archives to celebrate Pusha T, who just released the insane DAYTONA. We watched his short film DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, a hallucinatory look at the (guess what) the dope game, full of amazing visuals. Also gives us a chance …

Our friend Abbey came through to watch Kid Rock (yes he's a rapper) in BIKER BOYZ (Blaaaaack Kniiiights!) and its a completely insane episode. Anthony is drunk, we tell a lot of inside jokes, there's a lot of discussion of low rise jeans, its a mess, but a good one. Enjoy.By Bodega Box Office

3 Strikes is a film written and directed by DJ Pooh, who cashed in on all his Friday love to make this movie...full of amazing talent...not amazing jokes. We were let down, but we have good reasons, and luckily Ant steps up with a ton of great DJ Pooh tracks to save the episode.By Bodega Box Office

Rapper, podcaster and all around great dude Mega Ran came through to watch Method Man in THE MORTICIAN, a non-horror movie that may or may not have premiered in 3d. And oh yeah, did we mention that Meth is the LEAD in the movie??? It's insane. Also, production is a little worse than usual thanks to Ryan being a shoddy producer and a bad mic cable. …

Shouts to @CrowleyHead on Twitter for hitting us up about this one. Ava Duvernay's (Selma, 13th, A Wrinkle In Time) first film is a fantastic documentary about The Good Life Cafe, the Los Angeles home for conscious hip hop and breeding ground for Freestyle Fellowship, Abstract Rude, Busdriver, Jurassic 5, and much more. SO much music in this ep. So…

Eric and Jeff from @ITSTHEREAL came through to talk about the classic film that basically started this whole podcast idea. PAPER SOLDIERS, a 2002 film directed by Dame Dash, written by Charlie Murphy and starring (are you ready you're not ready) Beanie Sigel and Kevin Hart (in his first role), N.O.R.E., Capone, Angie Martinez, Cam'Ron, Jim Jones, J…

Sean McTiernan of the ALL UNITS podcast (available now on all the podcatchers go go go) came through to discuss The Safdie Brothers' GOOD TIME, starring Robert Pattinson and horrorcore rapper Necro. Apart from being an incredible film, it's a great conversation. To hear just the music part, skip to 1:15 (one hour, 15 seconds) and follow Sean at @Co…

In this episode, critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya came through to discuss a REAL DOOZIE of a film: Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans, starring Xzibit and someone called Nicolas Cage. Scout made an excellent video essay about Alien 3 for Rogerebert.com, hence the whole first couple minutes.By Bodega Box Office

Adam King from the Who Would Win In A Fight podcast came through to talk ROLL BOUNCE, the OTHER rollerskating movie we've watched for this podcast. It's a longer ep, with a great music discussion that ends in a truly bad ass Too $hort track.By Bodega Box Office

To ease the craze of the holiday season, we fast tracked a holiday episode for you. FINALLY, we covered a Friday film with the absolute classic FRIDAY AFTER NEXT. We also included some fire xmas rap for you to freak out your in-laws with. Peep our twitter to get a link to our alternate x-mas jams playlist.…

BLADE the series episodes are always a chance to not just check in on our favorite daywalker (played by Sticky Fingaz of Onyx) but also a way to discuss new stuff unrelated to any film. And that means Cam'Ron, lots of Cam'Ron. And a little bit about the death of Lil Peep, among all the other usual nonsense. Enjoy!…

We watched Forrest Whitaker's directorial debut for HBO, STRAPPED starring the god Bokeem Woodbine, Fredro Starr, and Das EFX, who we talk a lot about. We also get around to discussing Migos and Brother Ali and Freestyle Fellowship because we're extremely well-read rap fans.By Bodega Box Office