Kap G Talks ‘Dope’ & ‘Bringing Two Worlds Together’ as a Mexican-American RapperĪfter debuting in January at the Sundance Film Festival to huge acclaim, Dope set off a bidding war between distributors that ended with a guaranteed $7 million deal from Open Road Films and Sony Pictures. “A lot of artists were being signed to major labels and creating interesting and cutting-edge art, but it hadn’t gotten so successful that people knew what the formula was.” “I’m biased in that I think that’s when hip-hop was firing on all cylinders, both commercially and artistically,” the 41-year-old says, citing the diversity of acts like Geto Boys, Outkast, The Notorious B.I.G. The score and soundtrack, assembled by Williams and available June 16 on Columbia, is heavy on classic records like Nas‘ 1994 “The World Is Yours” and A Tribe Called Quest‘s 1991 “Scenario.”įor writer-director Rick Famuyiwa, whose previous offerings include The Wood (1999) and Brown Sugar (2002), the film’s infatuation with early-’90s rap was personal. A legion of young rappers, including Vince Staples, Tyga, Kap G and Casey Veggies, make cameos. Along with Moore, a singer-rapper who put out the mixtape I Am Da Beat in 2012 and danced in several Soulja Boy videos, Dope features starring roles from A$AP Rocky and Zoe Kravitz (of the rock band Lolawolf). The film was executive-produced by Pharrell Williams and Sean “ Diddy” Combs, and music is inescapable in it. Dope tells the story of Malcolm (played by Moore), a retro-rap-obsessed straight-A student/musician from a rough neighborhood in present-day Los Angeles who gets pulled into a criminal life when he’s inadvertently saddled with several kilos of a drug dealer’s molly. Such is the generational schism in a film that is both a contemporary teen comedy and a love paean to ’90s hip-hop. ![]() The ‘Dope’ Soundtrack Is Awesome, Starting With This Hilarious Pharrell-Produced Song
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