#Big l put it on film movie
Yet not even Jonah Hill could insert the incredible Mid90s soundtrack into the device of his choosing, as he and his revolutionary film distribution company A24 made the decision to release it exclusively on Spotify as the streaming service’s first-ever Official Movie Soundtrack. If the Mid90s soundtrack is the closest we’ve ever gotten to understanding Jonah Hill’s soul - it’s one who loves Smokepurpp, Morrissey, and ESG in equal measure. Like Greta Gerwig’s Dave Matthews Band-stanning Lady Bird before it, Hill exhibits a radical vulnerability with his song selections alone. Mid90s’ hip-hop song selection is as meticulously curated as the vintage Wu-Tang Clan and Chocolate Skateboards t-shirts worn by the young ensemble, featuring such period-era anthems as Cypress Hill’s “When the Shit Goes Down,” Big L’s “Put It On,” and Jeru The Damaga’s “Ya Playin’ Yaself,” in addition to an achingly beautiful original score composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of The Social Network.īut it’s also the kind of movie that uses Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” to indicate the high anxiety of a 13-year-old experiencing their first-ever unchaperoned boy-girl party (when they’re also high on Adderall) and an airy Philip Glass composition when they’re being chased away by the cops for skateboarding in an illegal courthouse.
#Big l put it on film full
While the late nineties and early aughts were full of best-selling hip-hop soundtracks (see: 8 Mile, the Friday movies, Belly, 50 Cent’s biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin’, the RZA and Jim Jarmusch collaboration Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, weirdly enough, Bullworth), as the music industry collapsed, so did the idea of a movie soundtrack you’d want to hold close to your heart and put inside your Discman. “So yeah, a huge part of this film was about creating the ultimate hip-hop soundtrack that was also the backbone of my youth.” “My whole writing process is all about listening to music I wrote every scene to these songs,” says Hill on the phone from New York, the day before he’ll host SNL for a record fifth time. But even after you take in Mid90s’ sumptuous cinematography (the film is shot on Super 16mm in the sun-kissed parking lots and avenues of downtown Los Angeles), and heartbreaking performances by a cast of brilliant newcomers (it’s seriously Goodfellas with tweens), one fact remains undeniable: Jonah Hill has really fucking good taste in music. It’s as personal as taking a long look inside his childhood bedroom, reflecting the actor-turned-auteur’s obsessive love of California skate culture and Death Row-era hip-hop.
His debut feature Mid90s, written and directed by Hill and in theatres now, is a stark, hilarious, and deeply emotional coming-of-age movie about a 13-year-old boy (Sunny Suljic) who befriends a group of teen skateboarders so he can escape his violent household. It’s 2018 and Jonah Hill has made an actual goddamn masterpiece.
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