Hustle And Flow was written and directed by Craig Brewer and was released in 05. Terrance Howard is DJay, a pimp and drug dealer who rekindles his passion for music when he buys a cheap keyboard. Nola is DJays primary source of prostitution income and hence becomes his primary investor, when he needs equipment to record his soundtrack. When DJay ends up in jail Nola takes it upon herself to become his manager and begins pushing his single to radio DJays in Memphis.

Hustle and flow was nominated for two Adademy Awards, one for Terrance Howard as best actor, and then it won An Academy Award for Best Original Song "Its Hard Out Here For A Pimp" performed by Three 6 Mafia.

 See... man ain't like a dog. And when I say "man," I'm talking about man as in mankind, not man as in men. Because men, well, we a lot like a dog. You know, we like to piss on things. Sniff a bitch when we can. Even get a little pink hard-on the way they do. We territorial as shit, you know, we gonna protect our own. But man, he know about death. Got him a sense of history. Got religion. See... a dog, man, a dog don't know shit about no birthdays or Christmas or Easter bunny, none of that shit. And one day God gonna come calling, so you know, they going through life carefree. But people like you and me, man, we always guessing. Wondering, "What if?" You know what I mean? So when you say to me, "Hey, I don't think we should be doing this," I gotta say, baby, I don't think we should be doing this neither, but we ain't gonna get no move on in this world, lying around in the sun, licking our ass all day. I mean, we man. I mean, you a woman and all, but we man. So with this said, you tell me what it is you wanna do with your life.

Hustle And Flow stars Terrance Howard as DJ, a pimp in North Memphis. Its hot, business is slow and money scarce. DJ hooks up with a old buddy from back in the day and together with the sound guy from church they work on putting together a track. The equipment they have sucks, but with help from their main invester, Nola, they get the job done with what they have. DJ hopes that skinny black, a successful Memphis rapper will give him the break he needs to get his music out there. When a evening at the local bar with DJ and Skinny Black goes sour Dj lands himself in jail. Through persisitant promotion by Nola things begin to finally go their way.

 "You know its hard out here for a pimp."

Hustle And Flow is one of my all time favorite movies.  It is a story of dreams and what it takes to get there. 

I give hustle and flow 5 stars out of 5