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Article: 'Brown Sugar': Love's Sweet Surrender [ Corrected 10/21/02 ]
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 11, 2002
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In "Brown Sugar," Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs play childhood best
friends who bond while watching the birth of hip-hop music on a New
York street corner. They nurture their love for hip-hop into their
adult years, when Sidney (Lathan) becomes a music critic for the Los
Angeles Times and Dre (Diggs) becomes a record executive. Of the two,
Sidney has stayed closer to her roots, championing records that are
true to hip-hop's outlaw spirit, while Dre has made a few more
compromises. "You can keep it real or you can keep it profitable," he
says at one point. "It's too difficult to do both."
When Sidney moves back to New York to write a memoir about her
life with hip-hop, she and Dre share an ...