Dame Sprint has revealed that he refused to work on the Snoop Dogg movie Soul Airplane due considerations about it containing racist humors.
Chatting with Math Hoffa, the Roc-A-Fella Information co-founder mentioned he turned down the prospect to supply the 2004 comedy, which additionally starred Kevin Hart.
“That they had requested me to supply Soul Airplane and I acquired offended as a result of I don’t like white individuals being profitable off making enjoyable of us,” he mentioned.
Hoffa agreed with Sprint’s gripe with the movie, saying: “I may by no means really feel comfy sitting in a movie show watching individuals snicker at us.”
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Dame additionally mentioned he takes concern with Kevin Hart not publicly supporting him regardless of discovering the comic earlier than he was well-known.
“Anybody who interviews Kev, and he’ll say it: Dame put me in my first film. [Ask him] why you received’t put up his shit?” the mogul mentioned.
“I wouldn’t braid one other man’s hair on a billboard,” he continued, taking purpose at Hart’s 2015 film Get Arduous. “I don’t care if it’s Will Ferrell. He has achieved issues that I didn’t elevate him to do however he has a unique sort of comedy.
“I’m not judging him, I’m simply saying: repost my shit! I used to be by no means mad at him for doing something he’s achieved that I wouldn’t do, and I’m not mad at him now. However it will be good if anybody of y’all muthafuckas I placed on would put up my shit.”
Kevin Hart did beforehand give Dame Sprint credit score for elevating his profession and casting him in his first film position in Paper Troopers.
Talking on the All The Smoke podcast in 2021, he mentioned: “I’m at a comedy membership, Dame simply occurs to be sitting within the comedy membership, sees me carry out. ‘Yo, that dude humorous as shit, you wanna do a film?’ Paper Troopers is the rationale I acquired tapes, auditions, pilots.”
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Paper Troopers was launched in 2002 and starred a comparatively unknown Hart as a rookie thief, with the movie co-directed and co-written by Sprint.
It additionally starred Stacey Sprint, Beanie Sigel and Charlie Murphy, whereas JAY-Z made a cameo look as himself.
Soul Airplane was launched two years later and whereas it was a flop on the field workplace, it went on to be thought to be a cult traditional.
The movie starred a lot of rappers together with Snoop Dogg, Methodology Man, Lil Jon and the Ying Yang Twins, in addition to common actors comparable to Tom Arnold, D.L. Hughley and Sofia Vergara.
