The lyrics for 'Whoop That Trick' (which don't, except for that phrase, concern trick-whooping) were written by the veteran Memphis rapper Al Kapone, with a terrific, menacing beat by that city's dominant hip-hop crew, Three 6 Mafia.

David Banner's track 'Mama's House,' to name just one, has plenty of ho-stomping. Those titles are outlandish but not, as hip-hop fans know, implausible. Another potential title, 'Stomp That Ho,' is rejected for the same reason.

At first he wants to call it 'Beat That Bitch,' but his executive producer objects, saying radio stations won't play it. Brewer has built his film around a composition entitled 'Whoop That Trick,' although the script makes it clear that this isn't DJay's first choice. Its protagonist is DJay (portrayed by Terrence Howard, who affects an odd hillbilly drawl), a pimp and very small-time drug dealer who is also, of course, an aspiring rapper.Р”ВJay's hip-hop dreams hinge on the fate of a track that would have probably been given an inoffensive name in a more timid movie. And instead of ducking hip-hop's most unsavory elements, the film puts them front and center. His film 'Hustle & Flow,' set in the world of Memphis hip-hop, opened on Friday and earned $8.1 million over the weekend, more than double its budget. So let's at least be glad that the writer and director Craig Brewer took pains not to ignore this conundrum. 50 Cent sells more records in America than anyone else, yet he's so closely identified with violence and sex that no mainstream politician would go near him. The biggest hip-hop hits are usually filled with rhymes that have to be heavily redacted before they hit the radio stations, and rappers themselves are finding that all this radio activity scarcely makes them any less radioactive. Hip-hop has managed to pull off a neat trick that has eluded most musical genres: it has grown both more mainstream and less respectable.

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