'CB4' Turns 20 This Year - Time For A Sequel?

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• Charles Judson | January 11, 2013 3:39 PMReply

  Would be curious to see a CB4 sequel just for the "What If" of it. Seeing Kool DJ Red Alert spin four years ago became a little surreal when we all realized he was almost 52 at the time. Sway is right that no one really thought rappers would still be in the game past 40, let alone 30. Only concern I have is that kind of humor in CB4 hasn't aged terribly well. Like a lot of other SNL offshoots, it started to date pretty quickly its targets are so specific. How do you take those characters and update them? Always preferred Rusty Cundief's FEAR OF A BLACK HAT. Infinitely quotable and the satire is much more targeted, expansive and still relevant, cause I'm always down for some Political Unrest, Stabilize Society Yes--the who's a better director, and who stole whose career debate, still on point. That I can see a sequel for more than CB4.

• getthesenets | January 11, 2013 4:21 PM

  I thought Fear of a Black Hat was terrible.I got the impression that the director wasn't a fan of the music and that he was an opportunist.CB4 was clearly done by people who grew up in the culture and listened to the music. Since Fear, tons of films,books, doc.s etc have been done by people who evidently had no clue what hip hop was 5 or even 2 years before starting their projects. They just happened to have resources or avenues to get their projects distributed.
  
  "I'm gonna go to South America and find Kurtis Blow"

• getthesenets | January 11, 2013 12:21 PMReply

  sequel to cb4 has played itself out in real life
  
  rick ross is mc gusto------------------
  superhead is the character that Khandi Alexander played(she even had the compromising pics with celebs).--------------------
  
  .and EVERY single hip hop group has broken up at one point..literally....atcq,nbn,epmd,rundmc,mobbdeep,nwa,gangstarr,peterock&cl,wu,outkast,getoboyz