![]() This year’s Oscars marks the 10th anniversary of when the film’s lead track, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” written by the Memphis group Three 6 Mafia, won the award for best song - the first time a rap group ever won the prize.īusiness Insider talked to some of the people behind the song and movie to uncover how it was created and what its win, which was considered a shock at the time, means now. It also paved the way for "Dirty South" rap, which was just beginning to hit the mainstream, giving the film an underdog sensibility as it made its way to the Oscars in 2006. Henson (who plays a pregnant prostitute with an incredible voice). The movie was championed by “Boyz n the Hood” director John Singleton, who came on as a producer, and launched the careers of Howard and Taraji P.
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