CB4 tries to parody the absurdities and appeal of rap, but it mostly misses the mark with its story of the rise and fall of rap trio CB4, glowering thugs whose angry, vulgar songs of the ghetto delight youthful audiences and outrage conservative censors. Albert and his onstage homeboys Euripides Allen Payne and Otis Deezer D are in fact three nice middle-class boys from the suburbs. Rap music was in their hearts, but they never appealed to audiences until Albert changed his name to MC Gusto, after fearsome club-owner Gusto Charlie Murphy , and reinvented his combo as hardcore criminals--rappers with a rap sheet--and renamed the group after a maximum-security prison.
CB4 becomes a sensation and a crossover symbol of rage, lewdness and rebellion. But the group itself is torn by dissatisfaction. Otis just wants to score with the girls. When the real Gusto sees that the kids from Locash have stolen his name and persona, he escapes Cell Block 4 and scares Albert into splitting up the band. As their solo careers languish, Albert thwarts Gusto with a lame, cross-dressing trick, and a reunited CB4, mellowing their urban-predator facade a little, pounds out a closing number surrounded by adoring fans.
This movie sends mixed signals up and down the dial. One scene, possibly meant as a parody, shows Albert binging on drugs. The rap music biz gets nudged for glorifying violence, but there's a drive-by shooting early on for purely gag effect. Albert's lovely, intelligent girlfriend Daliha Rachel True lectures him for lyrics that demean women and others but stands loyally by him even as he publicly cheats on her with sexy groupies.
No groupie is sexier than Sissy Khandi Alexander , who delivers a very discomforting message to other backstage girls that she's better than them because she puts her vice earnings in the bank. Above all, CB4 just isn't too funny, and one gets the feeling that the filmmakers themselves lacked the resolve or coherence of vision to mock rap in any effective fashion. Subplots begin, then fade, and characters drift in and out of the loose narrative, much evidently winding up on the cutting-room floor--a surprise given that director Tamra Davis' feature debut was the well-modulated film noir GUN CRAZY.
But Davis got her start in the less-disciplined environs of music videos, so chalk up this script as a victim of MTV-era attention spans. Then right-wing politician Virgil Robinson Phil Hartman, playing Patrick Buchanan , who leads a family-values crusade against CB4, utterly vanishes after a portentious reference to his wife's mysterious death.
Albert, Euripides and Otis have tried to become successful rappers for a long time, they would put on shows at Gusto's establishment but never got anywhere, after Albert witnesses Gusto getting caught for dealing drugs, he proposes to his friends that they should become Gangsta rappers.
Albert gew up in a middle class household, he asks Gusto if he and his group could be the opening act for popular rapper, Wacky Dee but is turned down, when he tries to ask again, he witnesses the arrest of Gusto.
Euripedes works in phone sex business, a job he hates greatly. After the group split up, his solo act is something of a parody of Afrocentric rap groups, especially public enemy. The movie had a mixed reception from critics. Rap Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Big Hawk. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Main article: CB4 soundtrack.
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