On this date in 2005, T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records dropped the soundtrack to the pimp juice-infused flick Hustle & Flow. The featured song, “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp,” which was produced by Three ...

20 years ago this month, two sweaty, skanky, Southern-fried flicks showed up in multiplexes: the quasi-musical hip-hop dramedy Hustle & Flow and the hicksploitation horror show The Devil’s Rejects.

When Hustle & Flow premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it was the definition of an underdog story — a gritty, Memphis-made drama about a small-time hustler who dreams of becoming a rapper.

Before Al Kapone's first gangsta-walk down the red carpet -- before his homespun Memphis hip-hop boomed from obscurity into a marquee role in "Hustle & Flow" -- the rapper maintained a decidedly ...

Terrence Howard has probably made a lot of money throughout his career, but early on it wasn’t as much as many would expect. In the 2005 film Hustle & Flow, Howard played the role of DJay, a pimp who ...

Two decades after his breakout hit, the director looks back on the film that changed his life, launched Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, and made Three 6 Mafia Oscar winners.