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.
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 ...