What's Beef?
The movie Beef was a documentary released in 2003 with rare footage and interviews with well-known hip hop superstars and music industry insiders. Narrated by Ving Rhanes, Beef provided the details of various untold stories that hadn't been seen in mainstream media. Some of the artists seen on this film were 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Damon Dash, and Bone Thugs n Harmony.
The movie was later spun off into an original documentary television series on FuseTV with shows Beef: The MC Battle, Beef: Respect, and Beef: Verbal Warfare. And now FuseTV has a new season premiering in February titled Beef: Behind the Bullet.
Synopsis: From the MC Battles to the battles that often rage behind the scenes in the music business, Beef has brought you from the streets to the boardroom and back as the definitive guide on hip hop culture. This all-new special features the most memorable moments from the show plus never-before-seen footage and the new beefs that define modern hip hop.
Air Time: February 9 at 11:00 p.m.
Not glorifying anything
I'm not sure how reporting the news is glorifying it? I posted this story before actually seeing this show. But based on the previous movies and shows by the same name, I thought it would be interesting.
I enjoyed the previous Beef movies. This is not because of glamorizing a gangster lifestyle, which I don't think it did, but because the art of storytelling throughout the documentary was well done. This new series is a lot slower, boring, and just doesn't seem to have a point. I barely got through one episode. I do agree with you that this new series does seem to glorify getting shot, selling drugs, and thugging and then living to tell about it. So yes this series did fall short.
For Real
I cannot believe you are glorifying the ignorant, uneducated, ghetto ass lifestyle that is shown on this program.
The fact that they a) think graduating school in the 9th grade is 'good', b) smoke fucking blunts while in the car talking to the tv cameras, c) flash wads of cash thinking they're rich (while straight up handing cash to a crack whore) and d) their biggest accomplishment is not getting killed?
That mentality cannot, and should not, be accepted as 'normal'. And I cannot believe it's perpetuated on a nationally syncicated television program. They may as well have a show called "Welfare: Scamming the System". Same effect, same suckers, same idiots.
This world is DOOMED.
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