fine, successful, gives it to me on a very very regular basis and SHIT IS THE BOMB

FROM November 20, 2003

Though many will mock and many others already have, I have finally purchased the DVD of ex-Source writer Mike Elliot's hiphop love story BROWN SUGAR, starring Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah and Mos Def, with many cameos including Method Man, Kool G Rap, Dana Dane, and that retired wrestler Chyna, who is a giant fan of hiphop, which is something I learned watching the director's commentary of the film.
Yes, it is a best-friend romance vaguely in the tradition of "When Harry Met Sally" (sans hysterics), and yes, it features the cardboard dude who's in all the Terry MacMillan book-based movies, and yes, Mike Elliot also unleashed MTV's disappointing "Carmen: A Hiphopera" and the moderately unnecessary "Like Mike." But I ask you, when was the last time a movie was based entirely on a rhyme by COMMON SENSE?

That's what I'm talking about. Keep on hatin', haters.