Brooklyn newcomer Manolo Rose closed out 2014 on the trails of his scorching hot breakout single “Run Ricky Run,” in which he discusses the precautionary tales and untimely demises of popular characters in classic hood films. Of course, the topic arose during the rapper’s Certified Fresh feature interview.
Yours truly asked the rapper to list which death’s in these iconic films resonated with him most. Hit the jump to who he named.
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Ricky Baker – Boyz n the Hood
If we start anywhere, it has to be with the character who became the namesake for Manolo’s “Run Ricky Run.” A character he admits was hard to see go out like that.
Manolo “Manny” Ribera – Scarface
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For movie buffs, the name Manolo immediately draws thoughts of Scarface. Too bad that his right hand man Tony Montana saw fit to take him out.
Jimmy Jump – King of New York
Rose noted Jimmy Jump (played by Laurence Fishburn, who then went by Larry) as a “personal favorite,” but to many, the murderous disciple of Frank White was a character you loved to hate.
Caine Lawson – Menace II Society
Manolo was most candid when discussing Tyrin Turner’s iconic “Caine” character from Menace II Society.
“Caine’s death resonated with me. I had a homie [pauses]… If you really watch menace, you don’t pay attention to the fact that they’re only kids. Caine just graduated from high school. He was only 18 when he died. O-Dog was only 16. He was so young that they had to let him out of prison, because he was a still a kid. That movie always resonated with me because it was a thing where my homie was only 15 — we were 15 — we got into it and he got killed while doing some things we shouldn’t have been doing.”
His friend’s name was Michael Edmonds, and as Manolo describes it, they were involved in a group fight that resulted in his stabbing death.
