Hustle Your Way Out of this Filth *

Rating: 2/10 (21 April 2006)

While Terrence Howard as Dee Jay, gives a strong Oscar nominated performance in this film, his riveting depiction of a ghetto youth's attempt to make it into rap music is hurt by the continuous vile language in the film. In short, you can't go a minute without the f word being used. It's utterly disgusting.
The premise that this ghetto hustler wants a career in rap music is interesting but the film soon deteriorates into a cliché molden atmosphere of the deprivation of his people.
Howard's unfortunate meeting with a rap mogul leads to tragedy, but are we really expected to think that this must be the way of ghetto life?
This is not the life of Van Gogh. The latter achieved stardom after he killed himself. Dee Jay makes the grade but is in prison for murder. Perhaps, the writing should have been smoked out as well.