Slim Thug has stirred the pot by boldly claiming that your “Blackness is up for debate” if you haven’t seen his must-watch list of films.
Taking to Instagram, the veteran rapper didn’t just talk the talk—he compiled a detailed list of essential films every Black person should see.
“If you ain’t seen Purple Rain, Boyz n the Hood, Menace II Society, Juice, Poetic Justice, Friday… if you ain’t seen any of them movies and you Black, your Blackness is up for debate,” he began.
“You ain’t really accepted yet. We gotta talk to you about that. You can’t even be culturally Black without seeing them movies. Straight up like that, man, we questioning it.”
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It’s worth noting that Slim’s must-watch list is a nostalgic trip through the so-called Golden Age of Black cinema in the 1990s, with one purple exception: the 1984 musical Purple Rain.
Still, some fans felt the list fell short, citing a lack of “real Black history” films and offered a history lesson of their own.
“Ok so what about Real Black History like the Slave Trade, Black Wall Street Massacre, The Durham Desegregation Movement (1960-1964) … The Katz Drug Store Sit-Ins (1958) … The Dockum Drug Store Sit-Ins (1958) …
The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike (1945-1946) … Nashville Operation Open City Movement (1961-1964) … UCLA Shootout between the Panthers and US (1969) 1775: Free Black men fought in the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, and at the Battle of Bunker Hill. George Washington also allowed Black men to be recruited as soldiers, with around 5,000 participating before the end of the war.
The comment continues: “1831: Nat Turner led a slave uprising.
1859: Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia and helped almost 300 enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad. John Brown also led a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry. 1863: President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. 1867: Fisk University began offering education for Black people and former slaves of all ages. 1868: The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, making Black people citizens. 1954: The Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, which sparked the Civil Rights movement.
1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960-1964: The Durham Desegregation Movement took place.
1961-1964: The Nashville Operation Open City Movement took place.
1969: The UCLA Shootout between the Panthers and US occurred.”
Another joked that his partner took a jab at his Blackness for his misstep in not enjoying The Color Purple in its entirety, writing: “My girl questioned my blackness just yesterday because I never seen ‘The Color Purple’ in its entirety (just bits and pieces) and never seen ‘Crooklyn’ at all 😂🤷🏽♂️.”
Other films notably missing from the breakdown — according to fans — include Jason’s Lyrics, Shaft, Foxy Brown, New Jack City, and Do The Right Thing.