On this date in 2005, T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records dropped the soundtrack to the pimp juice-infused flick Hustle & Flow. The featured song, “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp,” which was produced by Three ...

20 years ago this month, two sweaty, skanky, Southern-fried flicks showed up in multiplexes: the quasi-musical hip-hop dramedy Hustle & Flow and the hicksploitation horror show The Devil’s Rejects.

Checking out the movie Hustle & Flow should almost be required before throwing in the CD that's "from and inspired by" the film. The movie is about a pimp hanging onto the bottom rung as he stays half ...

Some rappers want to be pimps. Snoop Dogg, for example — he’s cultivated an entire career out of appropriating pimp culture, more for the kitsch factor of the accoutrements, it would seem, than for ...

A few weeks ago, I saw the trailer for the movie “Hustle & Flow,” starring Chicago native Terrence Howard. The story: A down-on-his-luck Memphis pimp–with his conked and curled hair, gold teeth and a ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: July 22, 2005: The independent film Hustle & Flow was released in select theaters on this day in 2005. Some say the popularity the film would come ...