An epic mélange of hip hop and romance, “Brown Sugar” (2002) is one of those films that will never get old. We watched as Sanaa Lathan played the hard working Sidney (“Sid”) who never had much time for romance. She was too busy focusing on her career as a hip hop music editor. Her best friend (and soon to be lover) Andre (“Dre”), struggles with not compromising the authenticity of hip hop while working as a music executive at a major record label.
So, as Valentine’s Day 2015 quickly approaches us, let’s reminisce on some of the most memorable lines of this classic romantic comedy (albeit hard to choose.) Remember when female hip hop lovers everywhere melted when Dre affectionately told Sid “you are the perfect verse over a tight beat?” Click continue!
Flashback Friday: 15 Memorable Lines From Brown Sugar
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Sidney “Sid”: I’ve started every interview I ever given the same way for 10 years, so when did you fall in love with hip hop?
Sidney “Sid”: For many people hip hop was that first friend, the first to talk to us the first to understand, hip hop has always been that kind of friend to me. And like any relationship, I’ve watched it grow, I’ve watched it change.
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Francine, Sidney’s cousin to Sidney: If you two hook up, you get the best of both worlds, you get the buddy and the booty!
Sidney “Sid”: Oh, I forgot being best friends with a man means I get to find out the stupid and simple ways they look at women.
Andre “Dre”: Well, that’s how men are, stupid and simple.
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Chris to “Dre”: You want to sign me for pennies and sell my publishing for millions?
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Sidney: The union of hip-hop to the mainstream was a hard thing to imagine. Hip hop was always this personal, regional thing that belonged to just me. Starting with Fab 5 Freddie and YO! MTV Raps! Anyone with a television set and cable box could get a piece of hip hop. I knew I was going to have to share and that was hard to get used to.
Francine, Sidney’s cousin to Sidney: Look, you need to catch a man, but you not dangling the right bait.
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Andre “Dre” to Chris: You want to know why I left Millenium? Man, I left cause’ I was tired of making bullsh*t and calling it hip hop.
Dre to Chris: It’s like the grinch who stole hip hop growing a heart, you got a grown-up heart now. You gonna’ go back to Whoville and give all the hip-hop whos their publishing back?
*You can feel their romance really starting to take off when Sid proves her dedication.
Sid to Dre: Look, you are my best friend, there’s nobody that believes in you more than me. So you’re taking [my] check and you’re starting that label and it’s gonna’ be hot!
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Sidney: Just when you think you know everything there is to know about hip hop it finds a way to surprise you and remind you why you fell in love in the first place.
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Sid to Reese: Ok Reese, we are both big girls, let’s let it out. You have a problem with me and my friendship with Dre?
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Reese to Sid: He lets you in, in a way that he hasn’t let me in yet, and all the secrets I have to beg for, you already know!
Dre: I also lost my job at Millennium
Chris to Dre: No, no, bruh the job lost you!
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Dre to Sid: You are the perfect verse over a tight beat.
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Sid: I thought it would be an adolescent memory I would look back on, like a crush on the captain of the football team, but I realize we have more than that, much more, we have a history, a friendship, we listen to each other, we laugh together, we finish each other’s lyrics. I don’t have to pretend with hip hop and hip hop doesn’t have to pretend with me. My feelings have never been more clear and I know they will never go away.
