Snoop Dogg will be singing the blues. Ames Universal and Sri Entertainment announced that rapper Snoop Dogg will play blues singer and guitarist Clarence Sims in the biopic “The Legend of Fillmore Slim.” “The film will span decades,” said Alan Ames, a producer on the project. “[It’s] from Slim’s emergence as a musician, to his fascination with the fast life, through his years of incarceration and his redemption.” Fillmore Slim (real name is Clarence Sims) was a highly renowned pimp in San Francisco, and was also referred as “The West Coast Godfather of the Game” and “The Pope of Pimping” during the 1960s and 1970s. The real Sims is now 77-years-old and currently on tour. According to Deadline, Snoop Dogg was approached by Sim’s daughter Rebecca to play her father. Snoop Dogg is another rapper turned actor who has appeared in several television series and several independent movies. He...
- 9/15/2011
- LRMonline.com
This was actually produced in 2008, but is only now getting a release on DVD, so it’s been sitting around for a couple of years for whatever reason. It was never released in theatres. It’s called The Stick Up Kids – a title that’s new to me. Has anyone laid eyes on it previously? I’m guessing it played at a festival or two.
The story goes… Four friends who grew up together on the streets of Harlem will do whatever it takes – from armed robberies to elaborate con games, to get what they want. But for how long? One slumlord is determined to take over the neighborhood, and he’s not about to let some kids get in his way. The crew’s only hope to survive? A scam that’s more twisted and dangerous than anything they’ve pulled off yet.
From the trailer below, it doesn’t look too shabby.
The story goes… Four friends who grew up together on the streets of Harlem will do whatever it takes – from armed robberies to elaborate con games, to get what they want. But for how long? One slumlord is determined to take over the neighborhood, and he’s not about to let some kids get in his way. The crew’s only hope to survive? A scam that’s more twisted and dangerous than anything they’ve pulled off yet.
From the trailer below, it doesn’t look too shabby.
- 3/2/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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