Hawkins: Bloods and Crips feud mirrors Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Corey Hawkins · a16z Podcast | Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz) · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:59
Corey Hawkins, who plays Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton, draws thematic parallels between classical Shakespearean feuds and modern gang rivalries and hip-hop culture.
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“In Romeo and Juliet, there's the Montagues and the Capulets, and they feuding for no reason. Nobody knows why they're feuding. You can look at the Bloods and the Crips, and you can see that same energy is there, man. Like, it's in the language, man. In hip-hop, it's the same, man. It's like, it all correlates, man.”
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