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Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler who faces his aspiration to become a rapper. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Three 6 Mafia's It's Hard out Here for a Pimp. Howard was nominated for Best Actor.

DJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay decides to try making hip hop songs. Key and his sound-mixer friend Shelby (DJ Qualls) help DJay put together several flow songs. While DJay quickly proves to have a real talent for lyrics, in which he expresses the frustrations of a small-time hustler struggling to survive, it is his first fixed-length song, done at the urging of these friends, which most obviously has the chance of becoming a hit and getting local radio play.

The film received positive reviews overall. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 82% rating with 126 fresh reviews and 27 rotten reviews, and a 80% audience rating. [1] Metacritic gives the film a rating of 68/100 based on 37 reviews.[2] The Boston Globe said, Some will find it chicly inspired, recalling blaxploitation's heyday with its grimy urban realism. Some will rightly find it corny, absurd, and an insultingly limited presentation of options for the most disenfranchised African-Americans.. [3] According to Entertainment Weekly, The home-studio recording sequences in Hustle & Flow are funky, rowdy, and indelible. Brewer gives us the pleasure of watching characters create music from the ground up. [4]