I’m still disappointed he went after Zachary Ty Schintzius only once — at the 0:23 mark. But that’s one of the best parts of Above the Rim. So for that, Above the Rim, I thank you. Other articles where Laurentide Scarp is discussed: Canada: The Canadian Shield: …a 2,000-foot (600-metre) escarpment, the Laurentide Scarp. NUTSO!!!!! Hello Nutso Nation. Above the Rim Cameras - San Francisco vs. Rhode Island (M Basketball) ESPN3 • NCAAM Basketball. So for that, Above the Rim, I thank you. Official page of Above The Rim - Hoopwear and kicks for the court since 1989. Nutso definition is - insane, crazy. Above the Rim is a 1994 American sports film co-written and directed by Jeff Pollack in his directorial debut. Birdie David Bailey. RAFE: And what was that backboard made of? SHARP: This brings up an important point. RAFE: All of the above still pales in comparison to what Tyrese endures in Baby Boy. SHARP: Tommy Sheppard was Maverick after Goose died for a solid two decades, yes. “Afro Puffs” briefly made the Lady of Rage cool, even if listening to her music felt like being yelled at by a middle-school librarian. I am looking for people to alpha test the Nutso Android App. SHARP: The older brother on Home Improvement? SIMMONS: A just-before-Friends Jennifer Aniston still shaking off her baby fat as Kyle’s forbidden love interest — I have her playing a stripper at Birdie’s club who belongs to Birdie and Birdie only, and yet, she can’t fight that little spark she has with Kyle. Birdie, Above the Rim: He changed bandanna fashion forever. Here at the Grantland headquarters, we couldn’t decide how to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Above the Rim’s release. Showing all 9 items Jump to: Certification; Sex & Nudity (1) Violence & Gore (4) Profanity (1) Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1) Frightening & Intense Scenes (2) Certification. One of the most nutso things that's ever happened to me Me and Jake and Danlee decided to go somewhere we don't go very often last night, so we took the metro to U Street, and were just kind of bar hopping, and checking out a bunch of places. Kyle Lee Watson Leon. There’s never been an explanation for the gratuitous Wayans dunk. RAFE: Come on! Pied 03. We’d seen soundtracks take off for movies like When Harry Met Sally and Singles, but never for an “urban” movie — Juice, Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society all had big artists, but you always felt like you were getting their B-list stuff on those soundtracks. This ain't Nutso. A split second later, Kyle’s hitting the game winner against Seton Hall and we all go home happy. HE owes ME. The good news: “But when I take her home, and tap that ass I’m gone / I’m just a dog don’t blame me” became a helluva high school yearbook quote. (The jury is out on whether he’ll prove as self-destructive.) RAFE: This is a trick question, right? 1 best seller The Book of Basketball. So Nutso absolutely HAD to be a lunatic. “This ain’t about a game anymore, it’s about real life!” That man was born to be a sleazy agent. SHARP: Hold on. Imagine if he had on better shoes and shorts. They’re all Above the Rim quotes? “Pain” belongs in the discussion for being one of Pac’s five best songs, even if it’s not as well known as some of his other classics because it ended up only on the soundtrack cassette (not the CD), for whatever reason. You page me a trial every kid is spoiled. Couldn’t Shep have redeemed himself by becoming the key witness in a lawsuit against the backboard maker that netted Nutso’s family seven-figure damages? Driving the industry nutso I'm a rub it in. They can’t change what we were, man. Uglyman.”. In that movie, his mom dates an ex-con Ving Rhames who smokes sleazy cigarillos, occasionally chokes Tyrese to the edge of losing consciousness, and frequently engages in intense squatting pile-driver sex with Tyrese’s mom while Tyrese tries to sleep. The movie’s main character is Kyle Lee Watson (played by Duane Martin, one of the few black men in movies who you can tell actually knows how to play basketball) a high school basketball standout whose entire goal is to play college ball at Georgetown University, and whose dalliance with Birdie almost costs him that opportunity and his life. Or Bugs Bunny rapping about basketball on a track that was ghostwritten by Jay-Z? ATR captures that, and as a viewer you go from wanting to mute him whenever he’s onscreen to feeling genuinely sorry for Bugaloo after Tupac disses him before the Shootout. Bad news, man: At 6'11 and 245 pounds with a 7'4 wingspan, Dieng has prototypical size for an NBA center. Throughout 2014, Grantland will look back at some of the most memorable, beloved, and baffling releases of that magical time around their 20th anniversaries. You know how some dads make their kids watch Hoosiers? And not just because Wayans dunked two-handed and shot Tupac. RAFE: That’s what the D-League is all about, right? Voila! Now, it's here, and it's dope and very raw. You could see how hard he tried to be like his actually funny older brothers on In Living Color, and his act could be both endearing and annoying. At the very least, I have “I Keep Forgettin’”/“Regulate” in the championship game taking on “The Way It Is”/“Changes.”. It also has no lead-characters you actually feel for. RAFE: Absolutely. RAFE: It was either that or whenever Etan Thomas first performed slam poetry at a Syracuse, New York, coffee shop. I was actively training as a fitness enthusiast and runner, and found myself with a highly regimented diet. Menu. Report’: Jimmy Kimmel, Cousin Sal, and Bryan Curtis on Mayweather-Pacquiao, The Movies of 1994: The Imperfect Charms of an Assassin and His Sidekick in ‘Léon: The Professional’, The Movies of 1994: Pondering the Time-Travel Insanity of JCVD’s ‘Timecop’. You ain't the motherfuckin' man no more. SHARP: There’s no way the older brother from Home Improvement is anywhere near the Uptown Shootout. He's long and explosive enough to play above the rim, strong enough to hold his ground on the block and quick enough to move his feet and defend in space. Any Dork Elvis disciple who claims long 2s are dead really needs to rewatch Above the Rim. A look back at ‘Above the Rim’ on its 25th anniversary Tupac in trouble, Georgetown hoops on the rise, a sports film rises to cult classic By Justin Tinsley RAFE: If this YouTube supercut is to be trusted, the number is 11, including one impressive “mushing” of a Bombers opponent and a vicious submarine undercut job on Shep. I downloaded the ATR soundtrack as part of a larger pirating exercise, where I downloaded every album and bootleg Tupac ever made, and Above the Rim eventually became my favorite thing from the whole set. So long, Aniston. The only certainty here is that Kevin Hart would play Marlon Wayans’s character, and it would be horrendous. Flip ... Nutso (uncredited) Michelle Etwaroo. I’m pretty sure that was their entire roster for 10 years, just 7-footers who averaged 4 blocks a game. Blockbuster or indie, rom-com or action thriller, there was something indelible about so many of them.
A digital subscription combining the best of SportBusiness specifically for academic institutions worldwide. This ain't Nutso. How does this person not have a Wikipedia page? I have always been someone who loved food, but due to my fitness training and diet, I no longer looked forward to eating. A junior Don King, Birdie presides over the local playground basketball games, which he turns into high-stakes contests. I've been following Nutso for a few weeks now as he gears up for his EP release. RAFE: You guys missed the most unrealistic part: Duane Martin’s character is named Kyle Lee Watson. RAFE: I disagree with “a young Avon Barksdale.” Even if Wood Harris was just 24 (and billed as Sherwin David Harris) when Above the Rim was released, does he really look any different as Motaw, Birdie’s Wee-Bey-esque enforcer, from how he did eight years later, when The Wire came out? SIMMONS: I live on the “White Guys in Their Mid-Forties Who Still Love Pac” corner much like Rafe lives on the Philippine basketball corner. SHARP: I said my piece on Twitter six weeks ago: “Watching Kyle Lowry always makes me think Kyle Watson from Above the Rim actually made the NBA.”. then you’ve probably talked about Shep’s performance many times, but wow, was that a joy to watch. The Bombers can’t field a team and then Shep shows up—he was previously asked to play by his former coach, now Kyle’s coach, who left his name on the roster just in case he changed his mind; that’s fucking foresight—again, in corduroys and a long sleeve thermal shirt, and some hi-top Adidas Superstars. Shep Tupac Shakur. This ain't that dopehead on the roof taking orders from you. Or that he plays basketball by himself at night without a ball? Can we CGI it? (See what I did there? The rim is almost imperceptible in southern Ontario, but in northern Ontario it rises again to almost 1,500 feet (450 metres) above the northern shore of Lake Superior. Shit has changed! This guy starting for the Bombers is easily the most unrealistic part of the entire movie. Because ‘Pac...I’ll see myself out.). That he doesn’t have any money whatsoever? SIMMONS: Which coach would have been scarier to interview at halftime — Popovich, or Birdie? Nutso High School Basketball Varsity Letterman Jacket-Style Sweatshirt Above The Rim. If you ever find yourself wondering whether any soundtrack ranks no. My theory: Wayans played poker with Jeff Pollack the previous night and won a bunch of money, and then Pollack said, “Instead of me paying you, what if you got to dunk two-handed in the movie tomorrow?”. RAFE: As much as I’d be worried that Birdie would respond to my question by slicing my face up into a jigsaw puzzle, aren’t we all convinced that Popovich was a CIA spook in his pre-basketball life? Q: Has Above the Rim aged (a) poorly, (b) horrendously, (c) tremendously, (d) like a fine wine, or (e) all of the above? I’d swap him out for a burly father figure — not someone with gravitas like Brian Dennehy, but someone a little more left-field: Gary Busey. Cookie Policy. Please consider ordering a larger size, if you prefer a loose fit. I don’t think we need anyone to remind us how much his death sucked, but yeah. SIMMONS: I’m still going with Above the Rim. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by Movie Quotes .com . It would have only been more impressive if he did it wearing Stacy Adams or Chuck’s. Moving all that dirt took more than 541,000 truckloads. He also inspired my friend Eric in middle school to practice holding a razor blade in the side of his mouth and blowing it through his lips without cutting himself. SIMMONS: Update: I Googled “goofy white guy above the rim,” “Kyle’s white teammate above the rim” and “WHITE GUY WTF ABOVE THE RIM” — nothing. In the year 1994, the movies were great. All rights reserved. About two-thirds of the dirt went to landfills and other sites. RAFE: Sorry, I missed that last exchange. On 24 June 1990, Tasmania's state team defeated the Victorian state team in front of a full house at North Hobart Oval fuelling the first calls for the state to house its own AFL team. The screenplay was written by Barry Michael Cooper, adapted from a story by Benny Medina.. STITCH SEWN GRAPHICS, EMBROIDERED PATCHES AND NAMESWEATSHIRT FABRIC 45% ACRYLIC 40% COTTON & 15% POLYESTERSNAP FIT BUTTONSALL SIZES AVAILABLESHIPPING TIME 3-5 WEEKS WITH ONLINE TRACKING NUMBER Be sure to compare your measurements with a jacket that already fits you. STITCH SEWN GRAPHICS, EMBROIDERED PATCHES AND EMBROIDERED NAME. You hear that, Nutso? SIMMONS: I will never forgive Above the Rim director Jeff Pollack for blowing the “Big Pimpin’” scene. Anyway, I root for Birdie and Motaw every time I watch this movie — I wish they’d filmed an alternate ending in which Tupac shoots Duane Martin right as he’s going for the winning alley-oop. [explode] {Whoooo!} SIMMONS: I still love Shep interrupting a conversation with Kyle to glance at the sky and say, “You hear that, Nutso? Finally, the Above The Rim script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Tupac Shakur movie. SIMMONS: This is why we can never remake Above the Rim. SIMMONS: [Thinking.] That he goes long periods of time without speaking or blinking? Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. The Knicks had three picks in the 2020 NBA Draft, and walked away with two players and a future asset. The Town That Disappeared. Besides the immortal “smell my punani” scene, I’ve always considered it a low point for Pac and for John Singleton. SHARP: No. Q: If you could have put any mid-’90s celebrity in this movie just to make Above the Rim 10 percent better, whom would you pick, and why? She’s also going to college during the day, as an English major at NYU, and she offered to help Kyle with his SAT so he can get into Georgetown! I think I’m ready to call this the single greatest fictional basketball performance in a movie. Nutty Professor II, Blue Streak, In Too Deep, and Above the Rim are four. My personal Tupac Movie Character power rankings: 1. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Above The Rim. This ain't that dopehead on the roof taking orders from you. That “self-destructive” parenthetical is probably the saddest thing we’ve read in 2014. They just threw it in with a bad edit and everything. He was a very dangerous man who was respected throughout the hip hop industry. But I did enjoy when Wayans shows up to the court and Kyle tells him, “You my man and the whole nine, but you look like a 14-karat Urkel.” Probably my single favorite line from the movie. Above The Rim. RAFE: We need background music for this discussion. (Wouldn’t everyone rally around him after something like that?) Q: Did they make a mistake not calling this movie Above the 9-Foot Rim? Anyway, Shep hangs 39 on them, makes the game-winning steal AND assist, an alley-oop to Kyle for the game-winning jam. “The album was more successful than the movie.” A man playing one-on-one with an invisible basketball and shouting to the sky at an invisible best friend — there’s someone doing that on a New York City playground every single day. SIMMONS: Everything you ever despised about Stephon Marbury’s game, only with a worse handle, less talent, less leadership, less stability and less Vaseline. And yet, Tommy Sheppard mourned Nutso as if he were an assassinated religious figure or something. RAFE: I have it tied for best with Flip the bum hugging Shep and then mumbling, “They can’t erase what we were, man — champions, baby.”. I hope you guys enjoyed, or hell, even got through the first edition of our new series. By the way, a flagrant 15 decapitation foul still wouldn’t have been one of the three most unrealistic moments in this movie. Plus, it would have given Busey one of the all-time great crappy-entertaining movie hat tricks in 1994, with Surviving the Game, Drop Zone, and Above the Rim. Storm the L.A. SportsCenter set wearing bandannas, point guns at Neil Everett and Stan Verrett, and force them to show highlights of Duane Martin dunking on 9-foot rims? Player (uncredited) John Jarusiewicz. So far we’ve been Hickory, the Western Dolphins, Tech U, and the Pittsburgh Pythons. RAFE: For Birdie, it’s just impossible. That he occasionally looks up toward the sky to talk to a dead person named Nutso? He must decide whether to play for and follow his widely beloved basketball coach or Birdie (Tupac Shakur), a local thug in the neighborhood. New York City playground legends Pee Wee Kirkland and James “Speedy” Williams are given bit roles in the film. 02. SHARP: For the record, and with all due respect to Tupac and Rafe and Above the Rim, this is not the best rap soundtrack. [Looking to the sky.] While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University, he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. They could’ve looped that bridge for the entire Uptown Shootout and nobody would’ve complained. Mailika Marlon Wayans. Bill Simmons is the founding editor of Grantland and the author of the New York Times no. You don't owe me nothin. Last year, he was an oasis of decency and yearning amid the self-indulgent noise of John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. (Sniifff!) “Being alone makes you strong — you and me are a lot alike that way.” I’m still upset that Birdie didn’t kill him. SHARP: Three choices here. It’s the most amazing basketball play I’ve ever seen. SIMMONS: And then we get a second ending — we fast-forward at least a year (maybe more) to real-life footage of Duane Martin scoring a game winner at Georgetown as John Thompson celebrates, followed by “Regulate” kicking in and Shep and Kyle’s mom rejoicing. Ricky, an alleged standout high school running back, tried to literally OUTRUN a 12-gauge shotgun round in Boyz in the Hood, and when Motaw (more on him later, played by Wood Harris) pulls a gun on Kyle at the end of Above the Rim, he literally just stands there with his hands up while literally, EVERYBODY else around him is trying to get the fuck out of dodge. Knight saw Above the Rim as a chance for Death Row to step outside of its gangsta rap confines. RAFE: It’s pretty sobering. I was at the EAST SIII-IIIDDEEE MO-TEEELLLLLLLLL. Above The Rim ScriptI need some competition out here.Come on!Am I that good or you that bad?Check me.Do something.Foul me. Generally, even the best collegiate centers will be lacking in one of those categories. I was 12 years old when I first heard this song, and lines like “Ain’t nothing like a lollipop / That gets sucked all day long / A tangy little candy drop” might have been single-handedly responsible for ushering me into puberty. Snoop’s legendary solo kicks off the “we’re setting up the tournament!” montage, only they inexplicably cut him off right as Snoop was preparing to slide through the city in his rag six-four and hop like a muthafucka trying to find his ho. The South Rim is open year-round. Well, my kids are watching Above the Rim. As a basketball movie, the hoops hold up. I still say Popovich. Nutso High School Basketball Varsity Letterman Jacket-Style Sweatshirt Above The Rim. Q: If you could start your all-time basketball team with one defensive player, would you pick Bill Russell or Tommy Sheppard? Anyway, the movie leads up to a ShootOut tournament at the famous Holcombe Rucker Park courts in Harlem where Kyle, who until that point is part of Birdie’s Birdmen team, which is stacked to win, quits to join the team his high school coach has assembled. Leon really is a treasure of African America. And now it’s happened.”Kynaston was raised on a small farm in north Wales. In fact, I’d like to amend an answer from earlier. First, any teenage superstar who grew up in New York City would be too contemptuous of homeless people to ever play Bernie Mac’s character one-on-one. Bishop, Juice: Indisputably the most important role of Pac’s film career (apologies to Nothing But Trouble), and probably his best performance. Image via Wikipedia " There is, however, a movement in the world known as jihadism… It’s by no means a branch of Islam. The 90s Black film renaissance produced some of … Somehow, Shep, after being flagrantly fouled AT LEAST 3 times, one time resulting in him going head first into the outdoor court (concussion protocols were not a thing there), gets up and goes on a 39-2 run BY HIMSELF. Please God tell me I am not the only one who is feeling the urge to cry at a moments notice OR be laughing hysterically at something that shouldn't be so funny just to end in hysterical tears. If goaltending is called on the defense, the shot is called good. Is there any way Kyle actually gets into Georgetown? Because their neighborhood built a basketball court with baskets placed directly in front of giant windows so that, if anyone didn’t stop in time and crashed through the windows, that person immediately fell five stories to his death. Report’: Chuck Klosterman on the NFL Draft, Hack-a-DeAndre, and ‘Mad Men’, ‘B.S. He did it in this movie and Juice, and even in his music. Tournament Attendee (uncredited) Bobbito Garcia. In the movie Above the Rim, Nutso and Thomas Shepard are playing basketball on a rooftop while wearing their high school jackets. RAFE: I prefer Bernie Mac as a comedian and actor, but Bugaloo was the perfect role for an early-twenties Marlon Wayans and his histrionic brand of physical comedy. Thomas "Shep" Sheppard (Leon Robinson), a former standout player himself who now works as a high school s… 7. SHARP: This is complicated. Somewhere along I-5 Northbound It was there, I know it was. Even calling Eric Nies’s character Montrose — pronounced like early-1990s UNC center Eric Montross — felt like a heady bit of verisimilitude, since any white basketball player from New York (and probably many other places) back then probably has a few unforgettable stories of being called by the names of other white players or actors. As long as y’all gimme the rock.” The lesson? [Thinking.] If all those trucks lined up end to end, they'd back up 4,612 miles. Q: Above the Rim kicks off with a Tupac song, crests in the middle with the earth-shattering “Big Pimpin'” from Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound, then ends with Warren G’s “Regulate.” Has there ever been a better rap soundtrack for a movie? The uniforms worn in the movie’s first basketball scene are very recognizably from Olaf’s Sporting Goods, a mom-and-pop place in East Harlem whose shorts were coveted by pretty much every teenage basketball player on the East Coast. The movie itself is a hoot; Leon plays Thomas Sheppard, a nomadic basketball super-talent who effectively went into hiding after the death of his best friend Nutso, a death Thomas blamed on himself. The 1994 Rap Album Matrix: Is This Hip-Hop’s Greatest Year? Above the Rim (1994) Plot. Rollins Tonya Pinkins. Off the opening tip I’m pretty sure he punches someone in the face. Some people will look at that and remark that Above the Rim isn’t even the best basketball movie of all-time, let alone a top-ten. Rollins Tonya Pinkins. RAFE: Sure, the low rims lowered the degree of difficulty on Avon Barksdale’s 75 dunks during the Shootout, but think of how much harder the rims made it for Tommy Sheppard to shoot a perfect 48-for-48 on long 2s. 70% of 10.04\" is 7.028\", which rounded to the nearest half inch, is 7\". sponsor them, including databases of deals, decision makers and activations. Q: Even though they’re supposed to be the villains of the movie, it’s OK to root for the basketball-loving gang of street thugs led by Tupac Shakur and a young Avon Barksdale … right? 1 Idea: NBA2K should re-create the film "Above The Rim" and make it their next story line for MyCareer mode. Above the Rim: Week 2 Recap BACC July 10, 2013 July 3rd, 2018 Last Sunday, there was some great basketball being played at San Mateo High School as we saw week 2 of our “Above the Rim… Tupac was shot to death two and a half years after Above the Rim came out, and enjoying fake movie violence requires some extra mental moral gymnastics when the person you’re watching die onscreen has died from real-life violence. 131.99. SIMMONS: Absolutely. Above the Rim (1994) Parents Guide Add to guide . Right? Does it have a track with Barry White and Chris Rock singing about basketball? Amirite?) SHARP: All of those are real except the pissing one. On the other hand, it’s pretty amazing that a guy getting shot in the chest and killed, by Kyle’s best friend, is part of this movie’s heartwarming montage at the end. Why? SHARP: On the one hand, watching Tupac get shot is horrible for obvious reasons. How to use nutso in a sentence. They couldn’t have filmed one McHale-Rambis-type clothesline where Barksdale actually decapitated Schintzius? But for me, the most unrealistic moment will always be Marlon Wayans dunking two-handed. The best-case scenario is a performance that doesn’t submarine the entire movie. Tournament Attendee (uncredited) Bobbito Garcia. 6. He’s so good at convincing you that he’s pure evil, but somehow remaining likable. SHARP: Shep’s a two-way player, too. Did you recognize the scout they had in the stands? Look at the rappers who’ve tried to act since Tupac — Gucci Mane in Spring Breakers, Cam’ron in Paid in Full, Peter Gunz in the abominable straight-to-video Carlito’s Way prequel, whoever else. Full Cast & Crew: Above the Rim (1994) Cast (54) Duane Martin. Also see his In Living Color music-video spoof “Mr. I don’t remember getting as much joy out of that before, but on this latest watch I was tickled pink. Even if “Regulate” became the song everyone remembered, “Big Pimpin’” was the greatest ’90s rap song that never actually became one of the greatest ’90s rap songs. Good lord. A great memorable quote from the Above the Rim movie on Quotes.net - Shep: You hear that Nutso? The Movies of 1994: ‘The Lion King’ and Its Perfect First Scene, The Movies of 1994: Revisiting Jack Nicholson’s Bizarre, Terrible ‘Wolf’, Russell, the Creator: Westbrook’s Underrated Playmaking, The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks, World Series Preview: Five Questions for Games Three and Four, 50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the ‘X-Files’ Revival. By Tom Foster April 2 nd, 2014. I hope you guys enjoyed, or hell, even got through the first edition of our new series. Look at this picture of him in New Jack City. HOW TO … I’m fairly sure that on a couple of those jumpers, the ball had already swished through the net by the time Shep’s defender jumped to get a hand up. Did we ever figure out why they made Kyle’s character so unlikable? SIMMONS: I vote for (e). But the first two songs that come to mind for me are Snoop’s “What’s My Name?” (which sampled “Atomic Dog”), and Nice & Smooth’s “Hip Hop Junkies” (which sampled the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You”). When Kyle quit Birdie’s team, Birdie tells Motaw that he is now starting. He is the older brother of the local drug dealer of the neighborhood, Birdie, who wants him to join his criminal empire. In Juice, he wore a gloomy, reptilian stare — a look of the damned — as the psychotic homeboy who got hooked on murder. I was wondering if any rooftop basketball courts like that really exist or how common it is to find a rooftop basketball court. It would make zero sense from a casting perspective, but from the moment Nutso crashes through a backboard and falls to his death at the beginning of the film, Above the Rim makes it clear that making sense is not a priority. He is a security guard at Kyle's school, and a former basketball star, who quit on the game after an accident which resulted in the death of his best friend Nusto. Why not let each franchise decide what kind of death trap it would like to install in the area directly behind the baskets? RAFE: Shep doing to the Birdmen what Sleepy Floyd did to the Lakers in the 1987 playoffs while wearing brown corduroys and a long-sleeve thermal shirt requires some serious suspension of disbelief. But isn’t it creepy that he died at the tail end of his two most beloved performances? You Don’t Know Me 06. Nutso- Hola Hello Produced: by Cee Da Cuban by Nutso [Queens NY's own @NutsoPPM] published on 2019-12-30T06:18:13Z Pray 4 Me- LP by Nutso [Queens NY's own @NutsoPPM] Above the Rim is seeded with true-to-life details that pretty much only New Yorkers and New York basketball junkies would recognize. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. So thank you, Tommy Sheppard. Also, no movie captures the hideous, awkward glory of young Marlon as well as Above the Rim does. But you could never find anyone as perfect as Tupac. Before you see his ass flying off the roof like Nutso in above the rim! Bugaloo Bernie Mac. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information/Your California Privacy Rights/Children's Online Privacy Policy are applicable to you. SHARP: (e) Everything that’s aged horrendously is also what makes it tremendous. Ed Norton probably had enough stuff running through his body in that movie to lift a Jeep Cherokee over his head. 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