![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the worst Best Picture winner since, well, Crash.īoy this was a fun year. That it was nominated alongside a film that actually tackled the legitimate problems facing African-Americans then and now, BlacKkKlansman, makes its win all the more embarrassing. In purporting to be a film about race while ignoring the actual problems, all in favor of making you feel good inside by the end, Green Book does its audience a disservice. The Civil Rights movement was a hard fought battle against institutionalized racism, and it was only after schools and restaurants and public establishments were desegregated that we could even think of moving forward. Being nice to others is a good thing, no doubt, but racism can’t be solved by simply being nice to others. At the end of the movie, you feel good because the lonely black man (whose interior life isn’t explored in the slightest) is invited to a holiday dinner with the white man’s family, and the white man made a black friend. It’s the story of a racist white man who learns to be a little less racist by becoming friends with a black man, witnessing the terrors of institutionalized racism (“blacks only” hotels, bars, etc.) during their drive. But what Green Book has to say about the world we live in is pretty rough stuff. The pacing is fine, it hits all the right beats to make you feel real good at just the right moments, and feel a little bad at just those right moments. The performances are solid ( Mahershala Ali’s really good! Viggo Mortensen is charming!), and it’s a handsomely crafted film. Only on DubCNN.Green Book is, uh, pretty bad. Download “Pasadena State of Mind 2”, and stream tracks on the V8 SoundCloud page below. Whether you’re looking to turn the function up a notch, go on a mission, get to the money, or just chill with bae on a late night, V8 brings an assortment of content that’ll compliment any mood or setting. This body of work is 20 tracks deep and showcases an array of artists from the City of Roses, in addition to his Wrongkind comrade, Half Ounce. Until recent months V8 had been locked in the studio creating and calculating his next offering, “Pasadena State of Mind 2” - a project he’s really proud of and excited about. Wanting to show his versatility as an artist, V8 dropped an R&B-inspired EP, “White Wine & Red Roses”, in February 2016. 2015 saw the release of his debut album, “Under the Influence”. V8 then returned home and woke the streets up with his smash single “Talk My Shit” which featured Young Pasadena’s Bullet, and served as the first single off of “Pasadena State of Mind”. In 2014, V8 spent weeks traveling the West Coast with Mitchy Slick and the Wrongkind camp for the Call of Duty Tour. From that day on, he found his home with Tha Wrongkind, and subsequently released his first official Wrongkind-backed project titled “Product of Tha Projeckz 2”, which featured labelmates Ise B, Meatface, his own young Pasadena artist Young Fidge and more. In October of 2012, V8 met with San Diego’s Mitchy Slick, who then granted him a spot on his forthcoming album, “Won’t Stop”, on the street single “U In”. Upon his release, V8 got straight to work and released his first mixtape, “Pasadena Star News”, which was followed up with “Product of Tha Projeckz” in 2011. Throughout his stay at Centinella’s Level 4 yard, he wrote more music and began strategizing how he could put Pasadena on the map. Exactly two months later, V8 fell victim to the California State Prison system when he was convicted of attempted murder. At age 19, he made his first popular song, produced by himself, titled “Ride Out”, which would be the first time he grabbed his city’s attention. Within months of his initiation, he was nearly killed after being stabbed five times with a screwdriver. Life would take a sudden turn for V8 when, at age 15, he was introduced to the heart of Pasadena’s wicked streets, and inevitably became vacuumed into the gang life. As a youngster, V8 found his passion for music at age five, after hearing his father constantly play Dr. V8 is a budding hip-hop artist from Pasadena, CA, whose aggressive style has captivated the interests of many over the last few years. Today DubCNN sheds light on rising West Coast hip-hop artist, and Wrongkind Records emcee, V8. ![]()
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