Who is your Favorite Hip-Hop Villain? PT 1

For 20 plus years Hip-Hop has gravitated and in the process managed to make its mark in Hollywood. since movies like Kush Groove & Breakin, Hip-Hop managed to create & Recreate some Characters on the silver screen & make for good entertainment.
Some Characters were fictional & some based on real individuals, all the same those that played them brought them to life and also has us going "is he really acting or..."


Movie: Paid In Full
Character: Alpo
Actor: Camron





Just when you thought that urban films had depicted the drug dealing lifestyle that was parallel with Hip-Hop and exhausted it, Rocafella Films teamed up with Dimension's Films to release the cult classic paid in full.
Mecki Pheifer played the role of deceased Harlem re-known Gangster Rich Porter, Wood Harris played AZ & Camron played the ever flamboyant Alpo.
Alpo in true Harlem fashion is credited by some for setting many Harlem related trends and is definitely one of the most important figures in the 80's Crack scene in Harlem.
It only made sense for the Films producers to cast Harlem's own Camron to play the Role of Alpo and call it good acting or just similarities in character but Camron brought a out the character of a local celebrity and put him in the conscious of millions of unfamiliar fans.
Camron played the role so well that when i saw the real Alpo talking i felt like i already knew him. A display of both the charm & equal ruthlessness was very much present and it parallels the stories told about Alpo by those that knew him well.



Movie: Juice
Character: Bishop
Actor: Tupac




When "Tupacalypse Now" (Tupac's 1st Album) dropped many failed to acknowledge Tupac's intent to highlight the inner city's circumstances & his constant pleas to uplift the black men/woman's spirit. Instead people opted for the gangsterism associated with the west coast scene in the early 90's.
This would all change when Tupac was cast to play the very conflicted & somewhat Psychotic role of Bishop in Ernest R. Dickerson's Juice. It was this very role that would shape Tupacs career and the public perception of him. Much as it was a fictional role Tupac was able to bring Bishop to life and introduce him to an audience that would recent his menacing ways but be captivated by his relentlessness.


Movie: In Too Deep
Character: God
Actor: LL cool J






When you think villain, " Ladies Love cool James" is not quite what you will be primarily trying to represent that but in 1998 Director Michael Rymer helped bring a hip-hop film different from most in the passed of-course that's not taking away from the consistencies like crime & its effects on the inner city.
"God" of course a name that describes LL's character and how he is perceived by those around him and his community. God doesn't care too much about the means which often involve various brutal methods of enforcement but he is assertive in his ways and takes no BS from anybody.