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  • 5/2/2025
heck out the Paradise Records trailer for this upcoming movie inspired by iconic 90’s comedies like Clerks, Friday and Barbershop. Rapper/singer Logic wrote, directed, produced and stars in Paradise Records. Logic plays the owner of a record shop who is struggling to keep the business open while bickering and bantering with his employees and oddball customers. The film also stars Tramayne Hudson, Reed Northup and Mary Elizabeth Kelly. It features supporting roles and cameos from people like Kevin Smith (who edited the film and is an EP), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ron Perlman, Martin Starr, Jason Mewes, David Krumholtz, Tony Revolori, Kevin Corrigan, Juicy J and Bobby Lee.

Paradise Records premieres in the Spotlight Narrative section at Tribeca on Friday, June 6, 2025.
Transcript
00:00Hey, excuse me.
00:08Hip-hop's in the back, nigga.
00:10What the fuck?
00:10Anyways, I'm sorry about that, sir.
00:12Welcome to Paradise.
00:14How can I help you?
00:15Yeah, I'm looking for a hip-hop section.
00:17It's right there in the back.
00:21Thank you for meeting me, sir.
00:22Just need another extension.
00:24Just need one more extension.
00:25How the hell do you owe $178,000?
00:28There's got to be something.
00:30I can do.
00:30It saved my business.
00:32There's nothing you can do.
00:34Fuck!
00:38Man, what the fuck is going on with you?
00:40I taught you better than that.
00:41You a black man.
00:42Were you here?
00:43I was losing the shot.
00:44I heard everything in the street.
00:46You in the streets at 70?
00:47Nigga, I'm in the streets.
00:48I'm in the sheets.
00:49You wild, Daddy.
00:52What if we just sold a bunch of inventory?
00:54Not to sound like an asshole,
00:55but that's literally what I try to do
00:57every single day for a living.
00:58Yeah.
00:58I was hoping I could fix this.
01:02It doesn't look like I can.
01:03Yeah, I'm having a bad fucking day.
01:06God, you don't want to!
01:07Just move!
01:08Don't let me forgive you!
01:10Damn.
01:11A lot of it.
01:16What's that?
01:17You can say you want a bad decision for denying it.
01:25These people are my family.
01:27Nigga!
01:28I think this is part of the hero's journey
01:31where something crazy happens
01:33and you've got to figure it out.
01:34Nigga, this is crazy.
01:36I know you didn't just say what I think you said.
01:39No, you don't understand.
01:40I'm black.
01:41I mean, I'm half black.
01:42I'm biracial.
01:43I'm mixed race.
01:44Shit.
01:44That's all you had to say.
01:46Oh.
01:47Okay.
01:47That's like my biggest fear.
01:48It just happened, actually.
01:49Can you sign for this, nigga?
01:51Damn, Coop.
01:52He done called you a nigga in public.
01:54Nigga, you like that shit, don't you?
01:58Doesn't he look just like me?
01:59It's weird.
01:59I don't know how you came out of my sister's vagina
02:01and not my balls.
02:02It's like a spitting image.
02:04It's funny because, you know,
02:04he's actually half black.
02:06And he's like, it's my identity.
02:07It's who I am.
02:08No, it's fucking not.
02:08You can't identify as black, moron.

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