I understand that “Jody” was originally meant for 2Pac, but, I really can’t picture nobody else in this role but Tyrese. Props to Omar and Snoop for killing their roles too.👏🏾
Exactly. It's sad that he died and that's why the role was passed onto Tyrese, but 2Pac was MUCH too manly for the role, even though he was a great actor and could probably pull it off.
I never noticed it but all the males in this movie are "baby boys". Jody is a narcissistic mamas boy, Pea is a serious street dude who wants to change, Melvin is a combo of both but he's reformed, Rodney is a baby boy who has accepted his negative path in life because it's all he knows.
Exactly….. the only baby boy who had the right to be a baby boy was Jojo, who was actually more gangsta then all the “men” combined….. lil man had the courage to speak his mind, without taking his eyes off the tv to watch behind him, and tell a grown @$$ thug n!99@ “I Hate You!!!” 😂😂😂
That is exactly how it is. I had to rewatch this movie tonight and got triggered at how Melvin is the only man in the movie that seems like a halfway decent person. Pea knows he’s not a good person but at least states he wants to change. Melvin, not quite reformed, but is working on it, is probably the only redeemable man that in this movie. Rodney has accepted he’s a bad person and leans into it. Jody is not a good person or partner but he doesn’t realize it either. He doesn’t love Yvette no matter how much he professes it to her. Jody only knows how to use people, Yvette and peanut being the ones that he uses the most.
Bruh why not? They are the ones that get all the WAP! I'm even surprised Tyrese in the movie hasn't got 6 baby mothers. The brothers with jobs get no play, they are called ''squares''. To get action/play in the hood, you either be a thug or a Baby Boy.
@@Im-the-Opp-that-shot-you lmao getting the village whore is a wap ive had threesomes my rapshreet had nothing to do with it and i was working a 9 to5 soooo
Their son, the real baby boy, is the true victim of the movie. The pillow fort broke my HEART! He was always the side character and no one thought much about him. Reminds me kids actually going through this with their parents.
I think Jody was super annoying when he interacted wit women but I think he was right to be worried about his mom and Melvin. he’s a felon and has said he’s killed people. Also Jody speaks on how the men before have hit her so as her son I could see that being a scary situation for him, then he talks to Melvin’s kids and finds out that Melvin used to beat his baby momma. As her son it makes sense for him to not approve, I don’t like how the mom brushed all that off when those are red flags.
And Jody suffered that he was gonna die if he left home because his brother did after being kicked out. Her last boyfriend caused that sorta, and he didn’t want that to happen to him. He stressed it all the time.
I’m 25 and I saw this movie when I was a little girl. I used to glorify this movie and I actually thought I was going to end up being a baby momma. I’m glad I didn’t and realized that I’m worth more. Yes I refuse to be a stereotype as well an an enabler. Black folks we have to do better. I don’t care how good the sex is , it’s not worth it. We have to break generational curses. This movie is ridiculous.
I had a conversation with a guy who told me this was his favorite movie because he could relate and that his life was similar. I left the conversation disappointed and a bit shocked. Baby Boy is a cautionary tale.
The directors told her to do that to make the punch look powerful, look at the camera angle as well on that part of the scene. It's a low shot behind Jody to make Melvin look even more imposing with the punch. In real life Ving and Tyrese are the same height but Ving weighs more and is more muscular but in the movie they do shits to make Melvin look taller than Jody as well.
Jody is the birth of the weak modern man. No accountability, responsibility or maturity and false masculinity, he's the victim of a young brother who probably doesn't have a father or any positive male in his life. Men need to be men and raise these kids up the best way we can, be positive in out family's lives and treat the good women in our lives good
I always hated the agitated womb scene in the beginning seeing it when I was younger. I always thought he was dying and seeing a grown ass man in a weird womb-like place was just so disturbing to me. 😂 Jody’s mother looked TOO damn good in this movie.
Right? Looking back in it I thought it was weird for me to be scared of that scene, but it makes sense lol. It's a bit like body horror combined with the fear of drowning.
The fact he thought he had ownership of her car just bc he put some tints and rims on it is nuts, if anything he’s adding more expenses on it that SHE still has to pay for 😭
I honestly feel like the only reason Jody didn’t sleep with Pandora was because he knew it would immediately get back to Yvette 💀, I’m sure all the cheating he do is with people who don’t know her, but Pandora too close to home 💀
He didn't sleep w her - because she didn't want HIM.. She wanted the ego boost of snuffing some hoe 4 her man. Which is why he shouldn't have had sex w her.
In real life he would slept with her. Dudes like him sleep with her and all her friends and her cousins and her sister too...and they use abortion like plan B. 🙄 and the women never stop messing with him. I'll never understand it 😪
The way you overlooked Melvin putting Jody in a chokehold to prove his dominance over him, kissing the mom after coming clean about planting weed in the garden while giving Jody a look, and the moms desperate plea to keep Melvin around after he just punched her adult son (given her experience with past partners) is... mind blowing
@@maxx_thedragondominatorI mean from personal experience I got in a fight with my moms ex husband and I lost. My mom was calling me Jody but I deserved it and regret that day. But I wanted to move out and try and be a man. Looking back at this movie I thought to myself that he should’ve been wanting to settle down with Yvette while he had the chance because he spent more time with her than peanut.
The fact i was just Yvette the entire 2022 from having a miscarriage, to him trying to control me, to him being with different women, and to this man well boy taking my car. Every woman needs to realize and accept when to let a childish man go!!
Men are everywhere. Yeah I had to drop my own man-child. Thankfully I never let him drive my car. And we never had kids but I think he wanted to. It would have been both our firsts.
After Rodney is killed, the scene between Jody and Melvin is my favourite scene in the movie and definitely the most poetic. For the first time, they each understand each other, bond, share a moment and actually start a positive relationship ALL WITH NO DIALOGUE!!! Absolute masterpiece.
@@MaishaOnTop For real, and I didn’t even think about that, their last encounter was literally a domestic. Just makes the scene all that more heartfelt for sure
Goes to show Melvin never had any ill intentions for Jody and men often say they don't typically hold grudge after a fight unless it's gang related lol. Brothers and friends will fist fight and forgive. Idk how they do that 😂
LOVE the intro. 😂 Jody was afraid of death because of his older brother was murdered after he moved out. He thought the same would happen to him, which is probably why he was so afraid to leave the nest, among other things.
@@scorpionqueen11 @Marian Elesha Jody being in that symbolic womb meant that all was right with HIS world. He had multiple women lusting after him, a mom who put up with him, a solid friend in Sweet Pea, and his brother was a regular part of his life. His brother being put out and then shot caused him to experience the first real pangs of his own birth into manhood and responsibility. I think I would say that if any part of that setup were to be rocked.
#1 red flag: when he doesn't have a car and wants to drive yours. Never will I EVER allow a man to drive MY car around, so I can help him cheat??? Hell naw😂
My cousin had this happen to her. Her man let his side piece drop him off at work and take his gfs car. So gf gives bf car, bf gives side piece gfs car, side piece driving to see her side piece. Chile, the ghetto…
As a 28 year old young man this movie taught me a lot. Not to make the same mistakes Jody made. To be a independent black man. To respect his queen /woman. You know we all have to matured or go through tribulations in life to be who we really destine to be ,mentally and spiritually. It takes a lot of time for others though. But when you reach that point in life, you truly appreciate life.
Don’t let this video fool you bro, there are alot of Evette’s and Peanuts out here who would rather be with Jody and Rodney instead of a “hardworking” man.
@@rivv010 Naw trust I know shit is crazy if you asked me. I seen it many times in my neighborhood. They want a dude they can take care of , than a actual hardworking dude that’s willing to provide and all that. N*gga be all slouch up in the house doing nothing while the woman working taking care of the bills. But then again some women still deal with it , upon reaching their breaking point.
I needed this I'm 28 years old as well from Toronto, Canada. Trust me everything you said resonates with me everything. I have no car or license, I have no place of my own ( though I'm saving right now for both right now) I do work and in a good relationship with a good woman with I'm planning on proposing in the near future.
Thing is at that age you’ve passed all this. This is one of those things where you’re a product of your environment. Jody was only 20 in this movie which is crazy when you think about it
I'll never understand how Juanita accused Jody like that and then let Melvin's behavior slide. She created him, and enabled him for years, then gets mad about how he turned out.
Notice that when Melvin was talkin to the both of them, Jody had his back turned towards Melvin, ignoring him. Melvin had Pea's undivided attention. Pea was looking straight at him. Only person not trying to hear it was Jody
This movie is the blueprint for young toxic relationships till this day it's not a coincidence that this was played religiously on black tv the definition of "programming" and conditioning.....
I can't believe you didn't realize that Jody's fear of being killed was because of what happened to his brother. Also, the agitation (childbirth) he experienced in the womb, was definitely an allegory (albeit a thinly-veiled one) for him growing up and becoming a man.
Side note: I think Pea would’ve went toe-to-toe with Melvin and probably would have got rid of him for Jody. He needs more respect as the best hood best friend
While that’s true, I also think Pea is smart enough to do his homework on who the OGs are. He probably knew about Melvin before Jody and the trouble that would follow for killing an OG Hoover
Not the throuple 😭 This movie had no resolution in the end. Jody didn’t get anything of his own. He didn’t get a job. He made up with Melvin and knocked Yvette up for a second time 🥴
The movie had a resolution just not one you may have liked , the resolution is Jody being comfortable with manhood or male adulthood instead of running from it of fearing it he is ready to embrace it accept his adult responsibilities. Look at the opening scene and how Tyrese seeks to emphasise infantilizing ones self by how one describes his friends , his place of abode and his partner.
@@scorpionqueen11 i mean families are important. If she was concerned about the rest of what came with jody she could have simply not had his baby. I mean she did get an ab0rtion so she isnt against it. So considering the way she makes decisions marrying jody probably the best option at that point. Because at least he made progress in the end making his own money not needing to rely on her. Also we forget jody was like 18 maybe 20 at the most in this movie (i believe). So for a dude that young he aint doing bad.
What always cracked me up was how Rodney parole officer just gone approve him to come live with Evette?😂 So just because you talk to someone on the phone in prison you automatically go on their list of future living arrangements
Melvin was the only man in the movie. And I never understood why people were cheering for Jody in the end as if he had grown up. The only thing he did was move from his mama's house into Evett's house. He still didn't have a car or a job and he got her pregnant AGAIN.
Sweet pea tried to mussel Jody up tho. To help him be more confident. Sweet pea was a man..he just ain't have no work skills and he wanted to work. It's different when a nigga don't wanna work and ain't tryna learn either. He said he could a robbed the lady but instead he was tryna sell this here nice merchandise 😂😂😂😂
The way Pea looked him like "Nigga if you don't get yo ass on..." kills me. If you look at the outtakes for the movie, Omar Gooding couldn't stop from laughing when they shot it.🤣🤣🤣
You did a great job commentating this film. As an adult, I feel like subconsciously this movie paints the picture that you should stick with “the baby boy” because eventually he will “grow” to love, appreciate & respect you…and that’s never really the case. A lot of women and men don’t love themselves enough to love each other. It’s the struggle love saga but I do still enjoy the messages and the best movie quote ever, “mama gotta have a life too”.
Can we talk about how Jody was 21 and Peanut was still a teenager? I don't quite remember her age in the film but I know she was younger than both Jody and Yvette. Taraji P. Henson said that Yvette's story in the film was her story when she was with her son's late father. I read her memoir Around the Way Girl and her baby daddy was just like Jody. He put her through it. It made sense why she played this role so well. The difference between Yvette in the film and Taraji is that Taraji didn't stay with her son's father. She got her baby and took her ass to LA with just $700 to pursue her career. I also never understood why Yvette never reported her car missing when Jody would take it.
Codependency. Jody couldn't be Jody unless there was a passive person like Yvette there to enable him. They know who they can walk all over and who is not going to tolerate it. Almost everybody around him enabled him but to varying degrees on the spectrum.
@TAJ straight up, while I do feel the bar for manhood was very low, I had to remind myself Jody’s still a baby himself kinda, and I feel he shouldn’t have been under so much pressure. Then again when you have kids, it’s time to grow up ready or not.
Chile this movie was TOXXXXICCCC 🤣🤣🤣 jody really was a baby and a narcissist every woman he came across did what he wanted. That's why melvin came in and made him see you are a grown man not a child time to grow up he didn't like it. I knew quite a few Jodie men who would rather leech off ppl than actually go out and achieve anything. The guys who find it easier to hustle than actually sit down make a plan and execute it. But why do the most when the bare minimum is accepted. No one really pushed jody except the man the women around made excuses for him.Jody is the true pookie ray ray and tyrone arcatype that exist out in the world the pacified black man who's coddled and has potential but does nothing with it but figure out how to scheme to the next one. Sorry for the rant but its men like jody out there
None of those women made excuses for them. They constantly told him to grow up and be a man, especially his mama and Yvette. What movie did you watch? The only person he (eventually) LISTENED to was the man. Get it right. Let’s not act like there aren’t many men that make excuses for Jody’s character to this day.
Have you read The Isis papers by Dr Frances Cress welsing ? The movie mention her in the opening with Jodi in the womb. it talks about the structure of the white supremacy and how men are emasculated and made out to be babies. It also talks about what happens to women. She is a great philosopher.Many know the movie was inspired my this.
@@corimoon3360 it’s a part of growing up Jody was what 19/20 from a single parent childhood with traumas of his dad beating his mom and his brother dying that’s enough to have a child cling to their mom and if his mom doesn’t force him to grow up he won’t do it on his own
I find that Evette was a good parallel to Jody’s mom. They were both strong women, who seemed to have a penchant for outwardly masculine “roughneck” type of guys, despite the drama/trauma it can come with. I think the difference is that Evette was less willing to tolerate BS from these guys( not passively letting Rodney live with her, and not letting Jody run roughshod over her). Plus, to me, she seemed to not let those relationships endanger her children(though Jody and Melvin were a much different story, than with his brother) I find Jody’s plight palatable, and relatable as a black man. However some of his antics(bogarding his mom, stealing from and arguing with Evette, antagonizing Melvin, not even looking for work besides hustling here and there) make him very hard to sympathize with. It’s like he wants all the vices( girls, car, street cred, respect, command of household) of manhood, without ever really earning it. I also feel Jody’s transition to “manhood” was both oversimplified and too extreme. It took him being humiliated in various ways, outright called out by Rodney, knocked the fuck out by Melvin, almost killed, and then to commit a murder before he “grows up”. Keep in mind, Jody’s only supposed to be like 20 here. I feel like that wasn’t really emphasized enough. In the end, All he did was change who’s house he’s living in, and have another baby with Evette. Did he get a new job, does he go to school, are there no other women he’s sleeping with? I mean, besides making up with Melvin and his girl, how else did his mindset change? I feel like the bar was set very low for his manhood, tbh. Now I did like Melvin’s depth. At first he seems like a Brutish, almost monstrous antagonist, that we’re supposed to see as “better” than Jody due to his “real nigga” credentials, but honestly, that’s not what makes him a man at all. That stuff’s in the past for him, he’s matured. when Jody sarcastically asks if he should be like him to be a man, Melvin said”no, u could never be like me, and you don’t need to be like me to be a man” I did like that scene. Also, him silently comforting Jody and helping him dispose of the murder weapon was very well done. Overall, it was an ok movie, but in some ways it just seemed too meanspirited for me.
I love this analysis. The big part of me that threw it off was how Jody's concern about Melvin's past with treatment of women and being a murderer were just ignored. I give it 7/10
@@Eggshd I ain’t ignore that part, but again, it shows him as a foil to Jodie. He talks a big game and wants to be seen as a g without earning it, Melvin is really about it. That’s why I felt it was glorified at first. But yeah, when I first watched the movie I hated that it painted Melvin in such a positive light, despite his misdeeds
@@sleeper_____923 no I agree, like I said; Juanita seemed more invested in that relationship than protecting her children, and is never even called out on it. In fact I’m glad you said this be cause that may explain why I feel the movies kinda mean spirited to Jody. However, the fact that Jody treats people like crap, making multiple kids with no forethought, and is not even looking for a stable job just exacerbates things
I really hate that BET used to air Baby Boy 15 times a day when I was growing up lol. I remember watching as a kid thinking Jody was so cool, thinking his mom was tripping for being with Melvin and putting him out, thinking his bike was fly, thinking Yvette was wrong for going behind Jody's back and talking to Rodney on the phone. I just rewatched it a little while ago as a grown man and all I could think was "damn this nigga is a loser". Jody deserved damn near everything bad that happened to him and everyone around him treated him exactly the way he deserved to be treated.
Was Yvette wrong for telling Rodney all of Jody's business while on the phone? Yes, but I don't think she was being malicious because it was the truth: Jody was selfish, arrogant, irresponsible and childish and a known mama's boy.
And you know what I think this is what they wanted the younger crowd that watched it to take from it… most of us did think this shit was cool and it’s sad good thing is we know better today well most of us
This wasn't a movie commentary but a jody roast session, and I was here for every moment. I was engaged throughout the entire video and laughed multiple times. Nonetheless, your points about Jody were well taken, mainly because he was a toxic and damaged hot mess everyone enabled. Great video. (:
Chyle that car was being used by the whole neighborhood. Jodi was just toxic wanted all the accolades of being a "MAN" but was still doing boyish things.
Also, Jody has a fear of being kicked out and killed because it happened to his older brother which is probably one of the reasons he behaves the way he does and also the other reason why he had those kids. Least I thought they said that in the movie briefly.
Tbh I think Jody and his brother might’ve been close to see his mom kick him out and than he dies soon later probably just fucked his head up i can see that because i lost my older sister who was like best friend and i still ain’t really recovered fr
I really wish there was like a 'Baby Girl' or something. From Yvette pov & story. Cuz clearly she had some deep rooted traumas from her upbringing as well.. I would say off rip tho. Yvette has severe daddy issues, and That Rodney was physically+++ abusive to her throughout their rship.. amongst him seeming to be quite a bit older than her.. I would infer that Yvette had been through quite a lot before Jodie.. which would make his cheating & childishness more tolerable to her for at least a while.. cuz she Juss grateful to have him do certain things.. and grateful to have him not do certain things in comparison to the worse she's had. As opposed to the better she deserves.
It makes sense. Her and Rodney’s onscreen interactions implied that the two had a dysfunctional relationship with each other. Yvette was annoying and extra at times, but I don’t blame her for being the way she was because Jody put her through a lot: impregnating other women, cheating on her incessantly and filling her head with false promises. I couldn’t help but feel bad for Yvette, because she deserved greater.
This type of behavior is still playing out in 2024. All the baby boys in my life. (Uncles and cousins) have been jail birds their whole lives. Now my younger brother have both been to jail before they’ve had their first job. The feelings of grief are an understatement.
But the only reason he acts like that is because he feels like Jody is competition. Weird to acknowledge the fact but Jody and Juanita have and Oedipal arrangement. She set Jody up to feel like he has to fight for her affection bc the last person that gave up on her bs (his brother) ended up dead shortly after. Jody also points out how she basically come crying to him and is always seeking a man bc she doesn’t want to be alone. Even the way she talks to him sounds like dialogue between two people who are in a romantic relationship that hate eachother and how she has to straight up tell him “you’re not my man” despite her setting their relationship up to be like that. Or how she calls Melvin (walking 🚩 that he is) a “real man”. Shit sounds like a woman trying to get her get back to make her ex jealous.
Girl,,i love this page!! ! It's refreshing to hear a black woman's perspective on this character because i've heard dudes give jody too many excuses. The older i get, the more i see how many baby boys are amongst us. Also, I loved the emphasis on how many times you had to remind us that it was her car!!! lmaoo Thank you for telling the truth!!! ❤
As a teenager/in my early 20s, I always found Melvin to be a necessary evil. Now in my early 30s, I know he was as genuinely trying to help Jody out. The ending after Jody smokes Rodney and Melvin takes the gun speaks volumes. The movie isn’t perfect but it was a good snapshot of this era. Love the constant yellow tint too lmao
I think its also important to note that Jody is only supposed to be like 20 in this film, which is still pretty young, so while he does act like an adult in some situations it's understandable that he's still immature in some regards.
So are Yvette and most of the other women in this film yet they have jobs and homes. They are financially supporting their children and the men in their lives. Jody was grown. He should get a job and support his kids.
@@dahliaherrod4301easier said than done for jody, he was coddled his whole life ONLY up until the women were truly fed up. up until this point, him doing absolutely nothing was working out well for him
I WAS YVETTE WHILE PREGNANT. it took my dumb ahh ex the father of MY beautiful daughter to stab me when I FINALLY SAID AND SHOWED I WAS DONE for me to change my mindset. I say this, not to take blame off him, but I PLAYED A ROLE in allowing that man to do me wrong like Yvette. every argument of course ended in sex, every ass whooping of course ended in me begging police to not take him bc “he is a black man”. After 8 years of marriage fuck a tattoo HE MADE ME FINALLY HAVE HIS BABY. he had multiple baby moms but never wanted me to speak to em I tried but they were all across the country. Anyway, watched this movie again the other day and finally being in the situation this movie is now one of the ones that irritate me. Mf had my car while I’m walking w his son and pregnant. Mf made me lose my good job bc he thought I was cheating and beat me before work so many times I lost my job being late. I was “cheating” in his mind bc I wasn’t sleeping w him willingly anymore…bc I was falling out of love and didn’t view him as a partner
@@erehistruth2356 I will let you marinate on that as I just don’t even like to type certain things out and being I don’t personally believe in abortion
There is a deleted scene that explains Jody's fear of being kicked out. Its where him and his mother are reminiscing over his brother. And how her kicking his brother out eventually led to his death.
Here's my theory on why Juanita (the mother) didn't kick Jody out: Juanita didn't put Jody out because she was afraid of losing another child to the streets. Her biggest fear was becoming a childless mother and although Juanita wanted Jody to leave the nest, she didn't want to repeat the same pattern of burying her offspring.
@@niabelizaire3596yup yup yuppppp and that’s why he tried that sorry ass line if I get killed it’s on you like whatttttttt ur a grown fckin mannnnnnnn Jodyyyy go find you something safe to do
@@niabelizaire3596that can’t be it cause she instantly picked Melvin over him right after he assaulted her son. She’s just the type of woman who will always pick a man over her child.
I couldn’t pinpoint it but I see the comparison I think I enjoy her commentary just a tad bit more cause she see these movies as women do But they are both top tier
Baby Boy is one my top 5 most hated movies. I really don’t think that he really learned anything through empathy but through the fear of being killed, being left alone or not getting what he wants.
I think I happened to be peanut 😂😂😂..the other BMS evett in different ways. I got the hell up outta there. I don't need the drama or mess. Just pay child support 🤌🏾😶
I love how sweetpea calls his girlfriend and her mom unstable creatures and then apologizes because if a man were to call me a b, he'd be out on the street no matter what. I love Omar Gooding and I remember him from Smart Guy.❤😂 He always made me laugh 😂
I never realized this movie was so toxic. It came out when I was in my early 20s and boy did I live like the women characters in this movie. I’m so glad I’m pass that phase of my life and I’m never going back.
Jodi was a mess & he was a selfish ass mess at that. He literally used what he got to get what he wanted, the same thing a woman would get bashed for. Jodi was wild asf & mad insecure, he had no issue with Melvin because it was one sided asf. Yvette deserved what she allowed & her mom deserved happiness, you did that one sis 💛💛
@@corimoon3360 It's mostly on Jody's end, but their relationship seems more dysfunctional to me than abusive. They think it's okay to hit each-other as well. My parents were exactly the same except my mother was unsympathetic and horrible.
@@corimoon3360 I feel like she deserved it because she couldve left & did, she didnt have to put up with his Nonsense but decided to & regretted it. She deserved maturity & healing more than she deserved Jodi
There’s a lot to digest. None of the men have their own stuff-car, house. It’s the women. It’s emasculating. Seeing this movie often, I don’t think Melvin is the bad guy. Yeah, Jody had a right to be concerned about DV, but in the end, Melvin was there for him. The irony is lost on Jody throughout the film.
And most of the men look Dusty - either in and out of jail (Melvin & Rodney), pillar to post sleeping on a woman's couch (again like Rodney/Melvin or Yvette's friends boyfriend or Jodi himself along with Pea). Yet, these sistahs can't seem to find literally not one single productive level-headed brotha on their level (which we clealry know exist) but of course apparently as we all know why that is which is the problem with our community now even in this day in age.
@@Afrocypher9590We cant gloss over the fact that the women are dating within their community of men should tell you something. In LA especially in the 90s was when Mass incarceration hit. Black men were either going to prison or jail and had records which is the reason many had no jobs and nothing in there names. The men that were level headed and settled was like winning the lottery or finding a unicorn. They were far and few but not the majority of black men. Once men ruined they backgrounds that ment no work they would have create work or businesses most found it easier to partake in illegal activities to takecare of there families. The women coddled or enabled the men which made the black men weak and even todays generations suffered bc of this. The women thought they were helping but black men and there legacies struggled hard.
@@gthevigilant_1811 no they are right if Evette is at the end of her pregnancy at the end of the movie it is a good tell that time has passed since the event previously. he was 18-19 when the movie started 20 when the movie ended.
Baby!!!! The struggle love and trauma bonds were heavy in this movie. Thanks for this review because I could never watch this movie myself. I do not watch most hood movies because they are horrific.
@@mustbemeech I didn't say that they weren't great, I just do not care for violence and trauma films. I have not seen the Color Purple for that reason.
@@mustbemeechjust wanted to say I respect the fact that you respected her response to yours we need more of this…. People get to mean and offensive these days this thread of you two was nice to come across ❤️
we have to be an example of what we want to see and that all I try to do! too many negative comments on the internet. I try be reasonable instead of argumentative, we gotta be nicer to one another.. @@tipsycash7483
ngl when you got to the part of saying how melvin apologized & took responsibility so jody’s mom had nothing to fuss about was a new perspective for me. i always thought she was just taking his side in spite of jody. good work
He fantasized death after his brother was killed. His mother put his brothet out over a man and his brother ended up dead. Jody thought he would experience the same fate. He was traumatized and needed therapy.
One detail to pay attention to is when Melvin explained "Guns and Butter" to Jody and Pea. Jody explained this to Pea earlier in the movie. Except Jody called his version the "Buyers or Sellers" It wasn't exactly the same as Melvin's explanation or meaning, but the idea was there. Jody and Pea just didn't catch what Melvin was ranting about because they were focused on being mad with Melvin.
Tbh I was siding with him taking out Rodney. Rodney tried to MURDER him. It's risky if you get caught but tbh, either Rodney or one of his friends would have eventually popped Jody and Sweet-pea.
The character Jody totally reminds me of my father sadly a man child who refuse to grow up and get his life together I watched the film when I was a kid and even then I knew how toxic Jody is
I just realized why he kept listening to "You Just a Baby Boy." The song represents his mindset and where he currently is on his journey to entering manhood. By the end of the movie he's arrived, he tells his mom that he's a grown ass man. They then double down on this fact by him not playing you just a baby boy but playing an o'l school song and reiterating that "you don't know nothing about this, this for grown folks right here." That was a clever ass way to signify and reference that. A 20 yr+ movie and that only recently came to me this morning realizing that.
Im convinced Freud came up with his theories because that was what he was into. Like "damn i really wanna bang my mom. I know! Ill tell people its a common complex. Convince them im normal"
Lol if he didn’t wanna see or hear what his mama and her man got going on, he should get his own place 😂 it’s not like he’s a child and they’re an elderly couple, they got their needs. Sorry not sorry 😂😂
@brownskin_girl6014 you can handle your needs without being a prick especially when you were a half assed parent, so If I lived with momma BUT I PAY BILLS, got a job, my own car, fix things around the house, help out whenever I can, etc. Would that make me eligible to walk around the house butt ass naked, smoke tree, and hard fuck in my bedroom? Because remember also, this ain't Juanita house. It's grandmas house and she did more of a job raising me than Juanita ever could. Jody shouldn't move out because Juanita got her groove, he should move out because his mother like alot of other black parents is a God damn hypocrite who cant never admit they were wrong and wants to play high horse when it's convenient. I see this within my own family, my cousins momma out here getting dickmatized, I pray she can do well without
I unfollowed tyrese early like 2011/2012 he seemed very off to me, and was anti BW by way of his mother this is back when data plans were not unlimited and a bill could be $500-800 extra for using internet
Hahahaha… he’s really arrogant! I met him when I was 19 at some club in Hollywood and he was extremely rude! He deserve everything he gets while he on the internet CRYING like a little girl 😂😂😂😊
Jody was likely fixated on death because he experienced what his brother went thru (got kicked out while momma was dating a new guy, killed shortly after), he likely thought it was his destiny since the same things were happening to him as well.
Yeah...I was kinda falling out of flavor with the video because she made it seem like Jody was suicidal the entire movie, but he's someone who is deeply scared of his life going to waste. What happened with his mother kicking him out after the fight is EXACTLY what happened to his brother, and his brother got murdered. A man with baggage coming into their house and eventually convincing his mother to kick them out.
@Machina Owl exactly, it was fear that was fueling his nightmares and it haunted him at every turn. That's why it made sense when he thought Rodney killed him in that moment, because it was literally playing out like he thought it would. Surviving that motivated him to ultimately change his path in the end.
Right another big reason he probably couldn’t pull that trigger he knows that get back will have him even more shook thinking “they coming” every second
I LOVE this movie!! ♥️ I went on a date to see this at the show and was side eyeing my date the whole night bcuz I saw ALOT of similarities….needless to say, it was our last date 😂😂😂😂
When Juanita found out Melvin planted weed in the back yard and then knocked Jody through the glass table after the argument escalated was way too much for me. That was beyond a red flag 😂
I really think Jody needed a reality check. A grown boy in society that is afraid to step into his manhood. Yvette need one as well. To think that was all she was limited to was him and guys like him. And with all of that, this happens more often than not. I'm not saying that Jody was a bad guy; but in order to claim leadership within your relationship, you have to truly step up and be there leader. Not when it benefits you.
Idk if my mind made this up or not but I always thought in the movie there was an older brother who was put out and then killed shortly after and that’s why he would always threaten his mom with the “If I get killed it will be on you” line.
The car was the real victim in this movie
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
😭😭😂😂
Go in the house
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣
I understand that “Jody” was originally meant for 2Pac, but, I really can’t picture nobody else in this role but Tyrese. Props to Omar and Snoop for killing their roles too.👏🏾
And Rodney was meant for Ice Cube
Omar did such a great job. Thats not acknowledged enough.
Exactly. It's sad that he died and that's why the role was passed onto Tyrese, but 2Pac was MUCH too manly for the role, even though he was a great actor and could probably pull it off.
When I listen to certain parts of the movie, I can DEFINITELY imagine Tupac playing the role lol but Tyrese really did this role justice
With what we know about Tyrese now, this role was made for him😂
I never noticed it but all the males in this movie are "baby boys". Jody is a narcissistic mamas boy, Pea is a serious street dude who wants to change, Melvin is a combo of both but he's reformed, Rodney is a baby boy who has accepted his negative path in life because it's all he knows.
Exactly….. the only baby boy who had the right to be a baby boy was Jojo, who was actually more gangsta then all the “men” combined….. lil man had the courage to speak his mind, without taking his eyes off the tv to watch behind him, and tell a grown @$$ thug n!99@ “I Hate You!!!” 😂😂😂
Yes....id recommend y'all read or watch Dr cres welsing to understand why I honestly think she did a damn good job at diagnosing their behaviors
@@NikkiChanteereal spill 😂
@@NikkiChanteebecause JoJo was 5
That is exactly how it is. I had to rewatch this movie tonight and got triggered at how Melvin is the only man in the movie that seems like a halfway decent person. Pea knows he’s not a good person but at least states he wants to change. Melvin, not quite reformed, but is working on it, is probably the only redeemable man that in this movie. Rodney has accepted he’s a bad person and leans into it. Jody is not a good person or partner but he doesn’t realize it either. He doesn’t love Yvette no matter how much he professes it to her. Jody only knows how to use people, Yvette and peanut being the ones that he uses the most.
Unfortunately there are way too many “baby boys” in our community today.
Bruh why not? They are the ones that get all the WAP! I'm even surprised Tyrese in the movie hasn't got 6 baby mothers. The brothers with jobs get no play, they are called ''squares''. To get action/play in the hood, you either be a thug or a Baby Boy.
Exactly what I said. He is the direct embodiment of the dusty bums of today.
@@Im-the-Opp-that-shot-you lmao getting the village whore is a wap ive had threesomes my rapshreet had nothing to do with it and i was working a 9 to5 soooo
Try in our world. Lol
@@Im-the-Opp-that-shot-youyou gotta have a mouth piece some kind of coin to get"WAP". thugs aren't the only ones with mouth pieces or coin.
Their son, the real baby boy, is the true victim of the movie. The pillow fort broke my HEART! He was always the side character and no one thought much about him. Reminds me kids actually going through this with their parents.
Truth
I think Jody was super annoying when he interacted wit women but I think he was right to be worried about his mom and Melvin. he’s a felon and has said he’s killed people. Also Jody speaks on how the men before have hit her so as her son I could see that being a scary situation for him, then he talks to Melvin’s kids and finds out that Melvin used to beat his baby momma. As her son it makes sense for him to not approve, I don’t like how the mom brushed all that off when those are red flags.
thank you because I hated how the movie made it seem like Jody didn't have legit concerns about Melvin.
MELVIN WAS A FELON WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES. Also Jody is like 20
And Jody suffered that he was gonna die if he left home because his brother did after being kicked out. Her last boyfriend caused that sorta, and he didn’t want that to happen to him. He stressed it all the time.
Agreed 💯
I was just gonna say this. Jody was a mess, but Melvin was a walking red flag. I don't get why they never acknowledged that in the movie.
I’m 25 and I saw this movie when I was a little girl. I used to glorify this movie and I actually thought I was going to end up being a baby momma. I’m glad I didn’t and realized that I’m worth more. Yes I refuse to be a stereotype as well an an enabler. Black folks we have to do better. I don’t care how good the sex is , it’s not worth it. We have to break generational curses. This movie is ridiculous.
Love your comment ❤💯
I had a conversation with a guy who told me this was his favorite movie because he could relate and that his life was similar. I left the conversation disappointed and a bit shocked. Baby Boy is a cautionary tale.
I feel like bet spammed this movie to prevent this for ppl who watched
I’m glad you know your worth hun, my mum a baby mom and I saw her struggle growing up. I promised myself that would never be me 💁🏾♀️💯
Thank you! I don’t care how good the dick is, there’s more out there lol. And I’m so happy you see your worth. Great comment!
I like how Juanita’s garden ended up prevailing and looking lovely. All it took was a little TLC and enabling to help it grow 😂
Lol 😂😂😂
Melvin punched Jody so hard that his momma fell!😂😂
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The directors told her to do that to make the punch look powerful, look at the camera angle as well on that part of the scene. It's a low shot behind Jody to make Melvin look even more imposing with the punch. In real life Ving and Tyrese are the same height but Ving weighs more and is more muscular but in the movie they do shits to make Melvin look taller than Jody as well.
Right !
😂😂😂😂 she had felt that wind when Melvin punch Jody
Jody is the birth of the weak modern man. No accountability, responsibility or maturity and false masculinity, he's the victim of a young brother who probably doesn't have a father or any positive male in his life. Men need to be men and raise these kids up the best way we can, be positive in out family's lives and treat the good women in our lives good
Don’t forget he has a room temperature IQ.😂
this hurts so much its a viscous cycle that engulfs everyone in it
I always hated the agitated womb scene in the beginning seeing it when I was younger. I always thought he was dying and seeing a grown ass man in a weird womb-like place was just so disturbing to me. 😂
Jody’s mother looked TOO damn good in this movie.
That’s part really disturb me
That part just gave me second hand embarrassment. It was just weird
So disgusting, I hate it to this day
God yes even today I dunno there is something about that scene that just makes me squirm
Right? Looking back in it I thought it was weird for me to be scared of that scene, but it makes sense lol. It's a bit like body horror combined with the fear of drowning.
The fact he thought he had ownership of her car just bc he put some tints and rims on it is nuts, if anything he’s adding more expenses on it that SHE still has to pay for 😭
That’s majority of blk men for ya 😂
and she married him
@@K-newbornand had ANOTHER kid by him🫣🤣
Indeed. She also never asked him to do that to her car.
He did say he fixed the engine too lol
I honestly feel like the only reason Jody didn’t sleep with Pandora was because he knew it would immediately get back to Yvette 💀, I’m sure all the cheating he do is with people who don’t know her, but Pandora too close to home 💀
She would have gloated about sleeping with Jody to Yvette's face.
He didn't sleep w her - because she didn't want HIM.. She wanted the ego boost of snuffing some hoe 4 her man. Which is why he shouldn't have had sex w her.
In real life he would slept with her. Dudes like him sleep with her and all her friends and her cousins and her sister too...and they use abortion like plan B. 🙄 and the women never stop messing with him. I'll never understand it 😪
I think he was disgusted by her. She had bad vibes and was Yvette enemy. He only cheat with hoes he can trust. 😩 Peanut was mad cool.
Especially since he was using her car
The way you overlooked Melvin putting Jody in a chokehold to prove his dominance over him, kissing the mom after coming clean about planting weed in the garden while giving Jody a look, and the moms desperate plea to keep Melvin around after he just punched her adult son (given her experience with past partners) is... mind blowing
The movie is about Jody not Melvin… all the characters are bad
@@Alexgrl99she clearly sided with everyone over Jody
@@maxx_thedragondominatorI mean from personal experience I got in a fight with my moms ex husband and I lost. My mom was calling me Jody but I deserved it and regret that day. But I wanted to move out and try and be a man. Looking back at this movie I thought to myself that he should’ve been wanting to settle down with Yvette while he had the chance because he spent more time with her than peanut.
@@Alexgrl99melvin had a big part in this movie so it was about him too 🤷🏾♂️
Sad part about it is that behavior is not uncommon amongst single mothers
The fact i was just Yvette the entire 2022 from having a miscarriage, to him trying to control me, to him being with different women, and to this man well boy taking my car. Every woman needs to realize and accept when to let a childish man go!!
whew it happens to the best of us! your too pretty for that. ❤
@@kennedyfknalexa thank you gorgeous🤍
Y'all like that struggle love shiiit. 😆
Men are everywhere. Yeah I had to drop my own man-child. Thankfully I never let him drive my car. And we never had kids but I think he wanted to. It would have been both our firsts.
@@angelacooper8973 thank god you let him go, he for the birds.✌🏽
After Rodney is killed, the scene between Jody and Melvin is my favourite scene in the movie and definitely the most poetic. For the first time, they each understand each other, bond, share a moment and actually start a positive relationship ALL WITH NO DIALOGUE!!! Absolute masterpiece.
Oh yeah this scene is so powerful. Pull my heartstrings every time, especially when you remember what their last encounter was.
@@MaishaOnTop For real, and I didn’t even think about that, their last encounter was literally a domestic. Just makes the scene all that more heartfelt for sure
That scene was everything.
Goes to show Melvin never had any ill intentions for Jody and men often say they don't typically hold grudge after a fight unless it's gang related lol. Brothers and friends will fist fight and forgive. Idk how they do that 😂
It’s mine too💯
LOVE the intro. 😂
Jody was afraid of death because of his older brother was murdered after he moved out. He thought the same would happen to him, which is probably why he was so afraid to leave the nest, among other things.
That could also have been the agitation Jody experiences in the womb.
@@kimberly8695 Ooh, explain??
@@scorpionqueen11 @Marian Elesha Jody being in that symbolic womb meant that all was right with HIS world. He had multiple women lusting after him, a mom who put up with him, a solid friend in Sweet Pea, and his brother was a regular part of his life. His brother being put out and then shot caused him to experience the first real pangs of his own birth into manhood and responsibility. I think I would say that if any part of that setup were to be rocked.
@@kimberly8695 Yo!!!!! This is a great breakdown.
Yeah but everyone was like nah, hes just a bum.
#1 red flag: when he doesn't have a car and wants to drive yours. Never will I EVER allow a man to drive MY car around, so I can help him cheat??? Hell naw😂
Yes that's a big red flag
Me neither SIS!!!! What I look like letting you drop me off at work while you're out riding around doing nothing 🙄
Wildest shit everrr
My cousin had this happen to her. Her man let his side piece drop him off at work and take his gfs car.
So gf gives bf car, bf gives side piece gfs car, side piece driving to see her side piece.
Chile, the ghetto…
That's what I am talking about!
As a 28 year old young man this movie taught me a lot. Not to make the same mistakes Jody made. To be a independent black man. To respect his queen /woman. You know we all have to matured or go through tribulations in life to be who we really destine to be ,mentally and spiritually. It takes a lot of time for others though. But when you reach that point in life, you truly appreciate life.
Don’t let this video fool you bro, there are alot of Evette’s and Peanuts out here who would rather be with Jody and Rodney instead of a “hardworking” man.
@@rivv010 Naw trust I know shit is crazy if you asked me. I seen it many times in my neighborhood. They want a dude they can take care of , than a actual hardworking dude that’s willing to provide and all that. N*gga be all slouch up in the house doing nothing while the woman working taking care of the bills. But then again some women still deal with it , upon reaching their breaking point.
I needed this I'm 28 years old as well from Toronto, Canada. Trust me everything you said resonates with me everything. I have no car or license, I have no place of my own ( though I'm saving right now for both right now) I do work and in a good relationship with a good woman with I'm planning on proposing in the near future.
@Charles Williams Jr Facts accountability works both ways. Not everything is the man's fault
Thing is at that age you’ve passed all this. This is one of those things where you’re a product of your environment. Jody was only 20 in this movie which is crazy when you think about it
I'll never understand how Juanita accused Jody like that and then let Melvin's behavior slide. She created him, and enabled him for years, then gets mad about how he turned out.
Notice that when Melvin was talkin to the both of them, Jody had his back turned towards Melvin, ignoring him. Melvin had Pea's undivided attention. Pea was looking straight at him. Only person not trying to hear it was Jody
Sweet pea bout dat life too
@Jay_MAC I'm glad pea turned his life around though. You could tell that man wanted better for himself and it killed him not to have it.
@@Forteoverload you’re so right!!
I think he saw the man in Melvin and knew he what he was saying was real
@TheeJayMac0214 And Jody was soft as cotton.
I love how judgemental that Tupac poster looks 😭😭
😂😂😂 I never noticed that.
It’s a mural but yea he does
😂😂😂 facts
I LOVE the way that black women dressed back then 🥰. So classy, natural and beautiful without trying too hard! I miss this era!
Yesss! No lace fronts, no drag makeup, athletic natural bodies, no drag queen padding hips.
Right , nobody looked the same, beauty was effortless
I was born in the late 90s and obsessed with the late 90s early 00s fashion ❤
I say this everyday
This movie is the blueprint for young toxic relationships till this day it's not a coincidence that this was played religiously on black tv the definition of "programming" and conditioning.....
Heavy on this movie was always on & is presented as a good movie & a “classic”
Yep! Def conditioning and programming blacks. Just like when you go into certain neighborhoods, there’s your smoke shops, liquor stores etc
I took it as art imitating life…
I can't believe you didn't realize that Jody's fear of being killed was because of what happened to his brother.
Also, the agitation (childbirth) he experienced in the womb, was definitely an allegory (albeit a thinly-veiled one) for him growing up and becoming a man.
The brother’s death was explained in a deleted scene so I kinda get it
Side note: I think Pea would’ve went toe-to-toe with Melvin and probably would have got rid of him for Jody. He needs more respect as the best hood best friend
💯 Sweet pea was dope af a real brother especially with lil wannabe gangstas
He def would have . He crazy!
Real talk. Pea would have popped him if Jody said so!
Y’all toxic too
While that’s true, I also think Pea is smart enough to do his homework on who the OGs are. He probably knew about Melvin before Jody and the trouble that would follow for killing an OG Hoover
Not the throuple 😭
This movie had no resolution in the end. Jody didn’t get anything of his own. He didn’t get a job. He made up with Melvin and knocked Yvette up for a second time 🥴
Definitely a throuple 🤣🤣
They didnt. He just settled for only her at the end. Thats it but I guess that was enough for those times.
@@forthenostalgia Yeah because the idea of having a "family" was more important than being in a healthy relationship. 🥲
Third time 😂
The movie had a resolution just not one you may have liked , the resolution is Jody being comfortable with manhood or male adulthood instead of running from it of fearing it he is ready to embrace it accept his adult responsibilities. Look at the opening scene and how Tyrese seeks to emphasise infantilizing ones self by how one describes his friends , his place of abode and his partner.
@@scorpionqueen11 i mean families are important. If she was concerned about the rest of what came with jody she could have simply not had his baby. I mean she did get an ab0rtion so she isnt against it. So considering the way she makes decisions marrying jody probably the best option at that point. Because at least he made progress in the end making his own money not needing to rely on her. Also we forget jody was like 18 maybe 20 at the most in this movie (i believe). So for a dude that young he aint doing bad.
What always cracked me up was how Rodney parole officer just gone approve him to come live with Evette?😂 So just because you talk to someone on the phone in prison you automatically go on their list of future living arrangements
Yea me too
🤣😂 crazy smh
Melvin was the only man in the movie. And I never understood why people were cheering for Jody in the end as if he had grown up. The only thing he did was move from his mama's house into Evett's house. He still didn't have a car or a job and he got her pregnant AGAIN.
Sweet pea tried to mussel Jody up tho. To help him be more confident. Sweet pea was a man..he just ain't have no work skills and he wanted to work. It's different when a nigga don't wanna work and ain't tryna learn either. He said he could a robbed the lady but instead he was tryna sell this here nice merchandise 😂😂😂😂
Changed the whole movie for me now 😂
Melvin was a murderer who in prison used to do things to young men ,yea a 'real man'.
The son building a fort for protection just for it to be kicked down 🥺
I kinda laughed at that damn snoop was extra in that movie
@Paulo Hernanndizz he made sweet love to him too
@@K-newborn TF u talkin bout? 🤨
@@K-newborn bro…..
@@K-newborn Yo, don't be weird...
"Well, I guess you won't mind if I used your car then....."
He really ain't shit!😅😅😅
I still don’t know how Jody went on a whole ass shopping spree and the car shop for upgrades with a measly amount of $400 😂😂😂
400 would of been 650 now still a little low for a shopping spree
@@cypher160manny2 the Chicanos gave him a good deal I guess.
This was 96 I think. Tacos at Taco bell were 69cents and a double cheeseburger was $1
@@brenandemossita1000 thats food. Car parts and (decent) clothing for three people
@@brenandemossita1000 it was 2001 but the filming probably took place in 1999/2000 so still on the board.
John singleton popping up as a booster is hilarious 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
The way Pea looked him like "Nigga if you don't get yo ass on..." kills me. If you look at the outtakes for the movie, Omar Gooding couldn't stop from laughing when they shot it.🤣🤣🤣
As soon as I read this he popped up on the screen 😂
He also made a cameo in Boys in the Hood, he was the Postman, who delivered Ricky's test scores.
@@WWAHP oh wow I didn't notice 😆
You did a great job commentating this film. As an adult, I feel like subconsciously this movie paints the picture that you should stick with “the baby boy” because eventually he will “grow” to love, appreciate & respect you…and that’s never really the case. A lot of women and men don’t love themselves enough to love each other.
It’s the struggle love saga but I do still enjoy the messages and the best movie quote ever, “mama gotta have a life too”.
Can we talk about how Jody was 21 and Peanut was still a teenager? I don't quite remember her age in the film but I know she was younger than both Jody and Yvette.
Taraji P. Henson said that Yvette's story in the film was her story when she was with her son's late father. I read her memoir Around the Way Girl and her baby daddy was just like Jody. He put her through it. It made sense why she played this role so well. The difference between Yvette in the film and Taraji is that Taraji didn't stay with her son's father. She got her baby and took her ass to LA with just $700 to pursue her career. I also never understood why Yvette never reported her car missing when Jody would take it.
She never reported the car missing bcuz in her heart she knew Jody’s ass took it 😂😂😂 and she was in love with that man…DEEPLY
She put her foot in this role. And she didnt want to send her boo to jail...Jody aint about that life.
wait a damn minute
Codependency. Jody couldn't be Jody unless there was a passive person like Yvette there to enable him. They know who they can walk all over and who is not going to tolerate it. Almost everybody around him enabled him but to varying degrees on the spectrum.
@TAJ straight up, while I do feel the bar for manhood was very low, I had to remind myself Jody’s still a baby himself kinda, and I feel he shouldn’t have been under so much pressure. Then again when you have kids, it’s time to grow up ready or not.
Chile this movie was TOXXXXICCCC 🤣🤣🤣 jody really was a baby and a narcissist every woman he came across did what he wanted. That's why melvin came in and made him see you are a grown man not a child time to grow up he didn't like it. I knew quite a few Jodie men who would rather leech off ppl than actually go out and achieve anything. The guys who find it easier to hustle than actually sit down make a plan and execute it. But why do the most when the bare minimum is accepted. No one really pushed jody except the man the women around made excuses for him.Jody is the true pookie ray ray and tyrone arcatype that exist out in the world the pacified black man who's coddled and has potential but does nothing with it but figure out how to scheme to the next one. Sorry for the rant but its men like jody out there
None of those women made excuses for them. They constantly told him to grow up and be a man, especially his mama and Yvette. What movie did you watch?
The only person he (eventually) LISTENED to was the man. Get it right.
Let’s not act like there aren’t many men that make excuses for Jody’s character to this day.
Have you read The Isis papers by Dr Frances Cress welsing ? The movie mention her in the opening with Jodi in the womb. it talks about the structure of the white supremacy and how men are emasculated and made out to be babies. It also talks about what happens to women. She is a great philosopher.Many know the movie was inspired my this.
My ex-boyfriend was hella like Jody... he idolized that imbecile.
Nobody in the film made excuses for jody everyone(beside sweat pea) looked down on him even emasculated him to an extent
@@corimoon3360 it’s a part of growing up Jody was what 19/20 from a single parent childhood with traumas of his dad beating his mom and his brother dying that’s enough to have a child cling to their mom and if his mom doesn’t force him to grow up he won’t do it on his own
I find that Evette was a good parallel to Jody’s mom. They were both strong women, who seemed to have a penchant for outwardly masculine “roughneck” type of guys, despite the drama/trauma it can come with. I think the difference is that Evette was less willing to tolerate BS from these guys( not passively letting Rodney live with her, and not letting Jody run roughshod over her). Plus, to me, she seemed to not let those relationships endanger her children(though Jody and Melvin were a much different story, than with his brother)
I find Jody’s plight palatable, and relatable as a black man. However some of his antics(bogarding his mom, stealing from and arguing with Evette, antagonizing Melvin, not even looking for work besides hustling here and there) make him very hard to sympathize with. It’s like he wants all the vices( girls, car, street cred, respect, command of household) of manhood, without ever really earning it.
I also feel Jody’s transition to “manhood” was both oversimplified and too extreme. It took him being humiliated in various ways, outright called out by Rodney, knocked the fuck out by Melvin, almost killed, and then to commit a murder before he “grows up”. Keep in mind, Jody’s only supposed to be like 20 here. I feel like that wasn’t really emphasized enough. In the end, All he did was change who’s house he’s living in, and have another baby with Evette. Did he get a new job, does he go to school, are there no other women he’s sleeping with? I mean, besides making up with Melvin and his girl, how else did his mindset change? I feel like the bar was set very low for his manhood, tbh.
Now I did like Melvin’s depth. At first he seems like a Brutish, almost monstrous antagonist, that we’re supposed to see as “better” than Jody due to his “real nigga” credentials, but honestly, that’s not what makes him a man at all. That stuff’s in the past for him, he’s matured. when Jody sarcastically asks if he should be like him to be a man, Melvin said”no, u could never be like me, and you don’t need to be like me to be a man” I did like that scene. Also, him silently comforting Jody and helping him dispose of the murder weapon was very well done.
Overall, it was an ok movie, but in some ways it just seemed too meanspirited for me.
I love this analysis. The big part of me that threw it off was how Jody's concern about Melvin's past with treatment of women and being a murderer were just ignored. I give it 7/10
@@Eggshd I ain’t ignore that part, but again, it shows him as a foil to Jodie. He talks a big game and wants to be seen as a g without earning it, Melvin is really about it. That’s why I felt it was glorified at first. But yeah, when I first watched the movie I hated that it painted Melvin in such a positive light, despite his misdeeds
@@sleeper_____923 no I agree, like I said; Juanita seemed more invested in that relationship than protecting her children, and is never even called out on it. In fact I’m glad you said this be cause that may explain why I feel the movies kinda mean spirited to Jody. However, the fact that Jody treats people like crap, making multiple kids with no forethought, and is not even looking for a stable job just exacerbates things
@@johnmartin298 oh no I meant the paragraph to refer to the part of the movie that threw me off. The movie is a 7/10 not your analysis
Sometimes as a man growing up is extreme. It's embarrassing, ugly and uncomfortable but its necessary to truly become a man
Tyrese “what do you want from me” Gibson was hilarious 😂
I really hate that BET used to air Baby Boy 15 times a day when I was growing up lol. I remember watching as a kid thinking Jody was so cool, thinking his mom was tripping for being with Melvin and putting him out, thinking his bike was fly, thinking Yvette was wrong for going behind Jody's back and talking to Rodney on the phone.
I just rewatched it a little while ago as a grown man and all I could think was "damn this nigga is a loser". Jody deserved damn near everything bad that happened to him and everyone around him treated him exactly the way he deserved to be treated.
Was Yvette wrong for telling Rodney all of Jody's business while on the phone? Yes, but I don't think she was being malicious because it was the truth: Jody was selfish, arrogant, irresponsible and childish and a known mama's boy.
And you know what I think this is what they wanted the younger crowd that watched it to take from it… most of us did think this shit was cool and it’s sad good thing is we know better today well most of us
The momma was wrong and Yvette shouldn’t have told Rodney that but Jody was WORSE than both of them.
@@szacntrlThat's right, nobody was acting right in the movie
This wasn't a movie commentary but a jody roast session, and I was here for every moment. I was engaged throughout the entire video and laughed multiple times. Nonetheless, your points about Jody were well taken, mainly because he was a toxic and damaged hot mess everyone enabled. Great video. (:
Chyle that car was being used by the whole neighborhood. Jodi was just toxic wanted all the accolades of being a "MAN" but was still doing boyish things.
Also, Jody has a fear of being kicked out and killed because it happened to his older brother which is probably one of the reasons he behaves the way he does and also the other reason why he had those kids. Least I thought they said that in the movie briefly.
I think it was a healthy fear to have but he used it as a crutch. He wasnt trying to grow up until he didnt have no other choice. He was comfortable.
Tbh I think Jody and his brother might’ve been close to see his mom kick him out and than he dies soon later probably just fucked his head up i can see that because i lost my older sister who was like best friend and i still ain’t really recovered fr
@@forthenostalgia TRUE!
I really wish there was like a 'Baby Girl' or something. From Yvette pov & story. Cuz clearly she had some deep rooted traumas from her upbringing as well.. I would say off rip tho. Yvette has severe daddy issues, and That Rodney was physically+++ abusive to her throughout their rship.. amongst him seeming to be quite a bit older than her.. I would infer that Yvette had been through quite a lot before Jodie.. which would make his cheating & childishness more tolerable to her for at least a while.. cuz she Juss grateful to have him do certain things.. and grateful to have him not do certain things in comparison to the worse she's had. As opposed to the better she deserves.
It makes sense. Her and Rodney’s onscreen interactions implied that the two had a dysfunctional relationship with each other. Yvette was annoying and extra at times, but I don’t blame her for being the way she was because Jody put her through a lot: impregnating other women, cheating on her incessantly and filling her head with false promises. I couldn’t help but feel bad for Yvette, because she deserved greater.
Not if she keeps running back to him.
This type of behavior is still playing out in 2024. All the baby boys in my life. (Uncles and cousins) have been jail birds their whole lives. Now my younger brother have both been to jail before they’ve had their first job. The feelings of grief are an understatement.
And people have the audacity to blame the white man.
“Glossy brown butter ball”😂💀omg I can’t
😂😂😂😂😂
He most definitely making Jody uncomfortable on purpose lmao...it can only be one King/Queen of the castle
But the only reason he acts like that is because he feels like Jody is competition. Weird to acknowledge the fact but Jody and Juanita have and Oedipal arrangement.
She set Jody up to feel like he has to fight for her affection bc the last person that gave up on her bs (his brother) ended up dead shortly after. Jody also points out how she basically come crying to him and is always seeking a man bc she doesn’t want to be alone. Even the way she talks to him sounds like dialogue between two people who are in a romantic relationship that hate eachother and how she has to straight up tell him “you’re not my man” despite her setting their relationship up to be like that.
Or how she calls Melvin (walking 🚩 that he is) a “real man”.
Shit sounds like a woman trying to get her get back to make her ex jealous.
@@jama3997, Jody's Messed Up Inna Head Bc Of His Mom's Programming.
Girl,,i love this page!! ! It's refreshing to hear a black woman's perspective on this character because i've heard dudes give jody too many excuses. The older i get, the more i see how many baby boys are amongst us. Also, I loved the emphasis on how many times you had to remind us that it was her car!!! lmaoo Thank you for telling the truth!!! ❤
As a teenager/in my early 20s, I always found Melvin to be a necessary evil. Now in my early 30s, I know he was as genuinely trying to help Jody out. The ending after Jody smokes Rodney and Melvin takes the gun speaks volumes. The movie isn’t perfect but it was a good snapshot of this era. Love the constant yellow tint too lmao
Melvin got my respect for that.
Jody’s obsession with death came from his brother dying in the streets. It was referenced in the movie.
I think its also important to note that Jody is only supposed to be like 20 in this film, which is still pretty young, so while he does act like an adult in some situations it's understandable that he's still immature in some regards.
He was 18.
@@nolipoli430 no he was 19 or 20
@@ahtaystamcauther9376 close enough
So are Yvette and most of the other women in this film yet they have jobs and homes. They are financially supporting their children and the men in their lives. Jody was grown. He should get a job and support his kids.
@@dahliaherrod4301easier said than done for jody, he was coddled his whole life ONLY up until the women were truly fed up. up until this point, him doing absolutely nothing was working out well for him
Baby boy is truly part of the black experience
And that is not good
@@missvida6251 didn’t say it was but when you grow up with BET it’s always there
@@missvida6251exactly 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Some of this shit we expected with our own families or friends
@@The-P-iz-Free yeah
I WAS YVETTE WHILE PREGNANT. it took my dumb ahh ex the father of MY beautiful daughter to stab me when I FINALLY SAID AND SHOWED I WAS DONE for me to change my mindset. I say this, not to take blame off him, but I PLAYED A ROLE in allowing that man to do me wrong like Yvette. every argument of course ended in sex, every ass whooping of course ended in me begging police to not take him bc “he is a black man”. After 8 years of marriage fuck a tattoo HE MADE ME FINALLY HAVE HIS BABY. he had multiple baby moms but never wanted me to speak to em I tried but they were all across the country. Anyway, watched this movie again the other day and finally being in the situation this movie is now one of the ones that irritate me. Mf had my car while I’m walking w his son and pregnant. Mf made me lose my good job bc he thought I was cheating and beat me before work so many times I lost my job being late. I was “cheating” in his mind bc I wasn’t sleeping w him willingly anymore…bc I was falling out of love and didn’t view him as a partner
I’m happy you and your children survived that. 🙏🏾
Damn that is sad as hell. I'm glad you got out. What did you mean by he MADE you have his baby?
Queen im so glad you made it through that. Sending you nothin but love ❤️👑
@@erehistruth2356 I will let you marinate on that as I just don’t even like to type certain things out and being I don’t personally believe in abortion
Im so glad that you survived and conquered that situation 💕
There is a deleted scene that explains Jody's fear of being kicked out. Its where him and his mother are reminiscing over his brother. And how her kicking his brother out eventually led to his death.
Here's my theory on why Juanita (the mother) didn't kick Jody out: Juanita didn't put Jody out because she was
afraid of losing another child to the streets. Her biggest fear was becoming a childless mother and although Juanita wanted Jody to leave the nest, she didn't want to repeat the same pattern of burying her offspring.
@@niabelizaire3596yup yup yuppppp and that’s why he tried that sorry ass line if I get killed it’s on you like whatttttttt ur a grown fckin mannnnnnnn Jodyyyy go find you something safe to do
@@niabelizaire3596that can’t be it cause she instantly picked Melvin over him right after he assaulted her son. She’s just the type of woman who will always pick a man over her child.
You’re the first black women I found to be doing commentary/reviews and I love it lol and you hit some points in this movie. New subscriber!!!
There's also Bondy Blue's "Now That We're Grown" series.
" FORD-Y DOLLARS?!??!! 👀😲😖🤯" LOL 🤣
"Cute?"😚
You’re like a more serious and thoughtful version of Primm’s Hood Cinema with the 90’s classics. I like it!
You gotta admit though that "Go in the house!" is a hilarious sound bite
This is not serious 😂😂😂 she is hilarious!
Thank you 😊. This is such a dope compliment cuz I love Primms content.
I couldn’t pinpoint it but I see the comparison
I think I enjoy her commentary just a tad bit more cause she see these movies as women do
But they are both top tier
can you surprise me and move out? lmfaooo
Baby Boy is one my top 5 most hated movies. I really don’t think that he really learned anything through empathy but through the fear of being killed, being left alone or not getting what he wants.
The fact that Peanut and his daughter all but disappeared... Can we talk about that part?
She knew better than to continue messing with Jodi's toxic ass
Yeah her mama made sure she got away 😂
I think I happened to be peanut 😂😂😂..the other BMS evett in different ways. I got the hell up outta there. I don't need the drama or mess. Just pay child support 🤌🏾😶
@@Mone333Williamsyea i dnt even want the child support once my mental is disturbed everything has to seize. Go tht way buddy 😂
Right he barely interacted with his daughter.
I love how sweetpea calls his girlfriend and her mom unstable creatures and then apologizes because if a man were to call me a b, he'd be out on the street no matter what. I love Omar Gooding and I remember him from Smart Guy.❤😂 He always made me laugh 😂
I never realized this movie was so toxic. It came out when I was in my early 20s and boy did I live like the women characters in this movie. I’m so glad I’m pass that phase of my life and I’m never going back.
Jodi was a mess & he was a selfish ass mess at that. He literally used what he got to get what he wanted, the same thing a woman would get bashed for. Jodi was wild asf & mad insecure, he had no issue with Melvin because it was one sided asf. Yvette deserved what she allowed & her mom deserved happiness, you did that one sis 💛💛
You said everything!
Why does she deserve it tho? That’s a bullshit statement. I was with you until that one. No one deserves abuse, no matter if they “allow” it.
@@corimoon3360 It's mostly on Jody's end, but their relationship seems more dysfunctional to me than abusive. They think it's okay to hit each-other as well. My parents were exactly the same except my mother was unsympathetic and horrible.
I think that’s every person in that age range
@@corimoon3360 I feel like she deserved it because she couldve left & did, she didnt have to put up with his Nonsense but decided to & regretted it. She deserved maturity & healing more than she deserved Jodi
Jodi was bordering on being a narcissist.
He was. Just a selfish brat.
Be wasnt bordering he was 🥴🥴🥴 he wanted everything to be about him he was a leech 🥴
You can go ahead and remove “bordering on being” lol
@@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t😂 exactly
You have to be diagnosed with narcissism.
This movie was very deep, lots of PTSD. so many layers. I wish it could've been a part 2, they got married, got education, job.
This movie was sad in my opinion, too many of our young bruthas are Jody's, even more so nowadays
There’s a lot to digest. None of the men have their own stuff-car, house. It’s the women. It’s emasculating. Seeing this movie often, I don’t think Melvin is the bad guy. Yeah, Jody had a right to be concerned about DV, but in the end, Melvin was there for him. The irony is lost on Jody throughout the film.
And most of the men look Dusty - either in and out of jail (Melvin & Rodney), pillar to post sleeping on a woman's couch (again like Rodney/Melvin or Yvette's friends boyfriend or Jodi himself along with Pea). Yet, these sistahs can't seem to find literally not one single productive level-headed brotha on their level (which we clealry know exist) but of course apparently as we all know why that is which is the problem with our community now even in this day in age.
@@Afrocypher9590We cant gloss over the fact that the women are dating within their community of men should tell you something. In LA especially in the 90s was when Mass incarceration hit. Black men were either going to prison or jail and had records which is the reason many had no jobs and nothing in there names. The men that were level headed and settled was like winning the lottery or finding a unicorn. They were far and few but not the majority of black men. Once men ruined they backgrounds that ment no work they would have create work or businesses most found it easier to partake in illegal activities to takecare of there families. The women coddled or enabled the men which made the black men weak and even todays generations suffered bc of this. The women thought they were helping but black men and there legacies struggled hard.
He was also a grown man capable of making his OWN decisions 🤦🏿♀️
He was about 20 years old in the movie
@@stackboostuploads 18/19 actually
@@aweirdredtoad3637 His mom literally says she'll take 20 years of payment for him being alive. That means Jody is 20 years old.
@@gthevigilant_1811 no they are right if Evette is at the end of her pregnancy at the end of the movie it is a good tell that time has passed since the event previously. he was 18-19 when the movie started 20 when the movie ended.
Baby!!!! The struggle love and trauma bonds were heavy in this movie. Thanks for this review because I could never watch this movie myself. I do not watch most hood movies because they are horrific.
Don’t be so naive there are many great films called “hood movies”
@@mustbemeech I didn't say that they weren't great, I just do not care for violence and trauma films. I have not seen the Color Purple for that reason.
@@marissawilson4644 I feel you, my bad
@@mustbemeechjust wanted to say I respect the fact that you respected her response to yours we need more of this…. People get to mean and offensive these days this thread of you two was nice to come across ❤️
we have to be an example of what we want to see and that all I try to do! too many negative comments on the internet. I try be reasonable instead of argumentative, we gotta be nicer to one another.. @@tipsycash7483
ngl when you got to the part of saying how melvin apologized & took responsibility so jody’s mom had nothing to fuss about was a new perspective for me. i always thought she was just taking his side in spite of jody. good work
Baby boy was a horror movie. This movie gave me PTSD of being a BM😭
9:32 that's crazy. I never noticed John Singleton was in his own movie either until you pointed it out.
I think I watched the extended version cuz there were some other scenes that were in there that I hadnt noticed before.
@forthenostalgia nice!! Great job on this. Looking forward to others.
I can't believe I watched this whole thing, your comments had me cracking up. Not Yvette's car being community property 😂
I think he didn't sleep with Pandora because he knew that her box would be like opening Pandora's Box with Yvette. 🤣
That’s a good one! 🤣🤣🤣
He fantasized death after his brother was killed. His mother put his brothet out over a man and his brother ended up dead. Jody thought he would experience the same fate. He was traumatized and needed therapy.
One detail to pay attention to is when Melvin explained "Guns and Butter" to Jody and Pea. Jody explained this to Pea earlier in the movie. Except Jody called his version the "Buyers or Sellers"
It wasn't exactly the same as Melvin's explanation or meaning, but the idea was there. Jody and Pea just didn't catch what Melvin was ranting about because they were focused on being mad with Melvin.
Tarhaji P Henson is so beautiful in this movie...
Fun fact the rapper Tupac was supposed to play Jody but passed before It happened
I really feel the role would've been SO MUCH better written and the movie's entire tone would be changed to fit Pac
There's just no other explanation
I can see it
now why'd i laugh at out loud at "tyrese 'what do you want from me' gibson" 😂
Jody never actually kills Rodney, Sweetpea does but that trauma of seeing death makes him grow up
Tbh I was siding with him taking out Rodney. Rodney tried to MURDER him. It's risky if you get caught but tbh, either Rodney or one of his friends would have eventually popped Jody and Sweet-pea.
@@machinaowl910 Regardless, someone would've eventually smoked Rodney. Or he would've went back to jail.
The character Jody totally reminds me of my father sadly a man child who refuse to grow up and get his life together I watched the film when I was a kid and even then I knew how toxic Jody is
I just realized why he kept listening to "You Just a Baby Boy."
The song represents his mindset and where he currently is on his journey to entering manhood.
By the end of the movie he's arrived, he tells his mom that he's a grown ass man.
They then double down on this fact by him not playing you just a baby boy but playing an o'l school song and reiterating that "you don't know nothing about this, this for grown folks right here."
That was a clever ass way to signify and reference that.
A 20 yr+ movie and that only recently came to me this morning realizing that.
Sigmund Freud has entered the chat lol. That’s all I can think when I watch this movie and recap.
Yes!!! With his disturbing ass.
Not Sigmund Freud's sick tail. I love his theories though. As sick as they are
Im convinced Freud came up with his theories because that was what he was into. Like "damn i really wanna bang my mom. I know! Ill tell people its a common complex. Convince them im normal"
Melvin popping up naked in the kitchen was wild disrespectful
Lol if he didn’t wanna see or hear what his mama and her man got going on, he should get his own place 😂 it’s not like he’s a child and they’re an elderly couple, they got their needs. Sorry not sorry 😂😂
@brownskin_girl6014 you can handle your needs without being a prick especially when you were a half assed parent, so If I lived with momma BUT I PAY BILLS, got a job, my own car, fix things around the house, help out whenever I can, etc. Would that make me eligible to walk around the house butt ass naked, smoke tree, and hard fuck in my bedroom? Because remember also, this ain't Juanita house. It's grandmas house and she did more of a job raising me than Juanita ever could.
Jody shouldn't move out because Juanita got her groove, he should move out because his mother like alot of other black parents is a God damn hypocrite who cant never admit they were wrong and wants to play high horse when it's convenient. I see this within my own family, my cousins momma out here getting dickmatized, I pray she can do well without
Melvin was naked in the kitchen man I didn't want to see that tf
@@brownskin_girl6014he’s 20…if you expect him to have it all together then you’re slow.
The standard for the men in this movie is so low.
The fact that them being together in the end was considered a "happy" ending...
I miss the days when Tyrese was seen and not heard (acting and doing music) via social media 🫠.
Tyrese is Jody...we found out the hard way 🙃
That how I feel about lots of celebrities like Akon
@@lovelifeloveyourself9870 What’s wrong with Tyrese?
I unfollowed tyrese early like 2011/2012 he seemed very off to me, and was anti BW by way of his mother this is back when data plans were not unlimited and a bill could be $500-800 extra for using internet
Hahahaha… he’s really arrogant! I met him when I was 19 at some club in Hollywood and he was extremely rude!
He deserve everything he gets while he on the internet CRYING like a little girl 😂😂😂😊
“what you doing with this old ass pizza” this was definitely a classic 💀
Like Jody was famous for tryna switch the dam subject 💀
“Girl u supposed to open the blinds from the bottom wyd” 18:57 LMAOOOOO FR
Jody: whispering
Melvin: WHAT?
UA-cam: *goes to ad*🤣🤣🤣
Lmao that part was hilarious
😂😂😂😂😂😂
What's wild is how this stuff is so real
Yeah it is
The way you analyze these movies 😂😂 I can’t get enough and the way you said Jody got “a peek of the press and curl” 😂😂
A man on a bike is a big red flag🚩🚩
😂😂😂😂😂
Bambi was on a bike when she met up with Scrappy from LHHATL😂
Jody was likely fixated on death because he experienced what his brother went thru (got kicked out while momma was dating a new guy, killed shortly after), he likely thought it was his destiny since the same things were happening to him as well.
Yeah...I was kinda falling out of flavor with the video because she made it seem like Jody was suicidal the entire movie, but he's someone who is deeply scared of his life going to waste. What happened with his mother kicking him out after the fight is EXACTLY what happened to his brother, and his brother got murdered. A man with baggage coming into their house and eventually convincing his mother to kick them out.
@Machina Owl exactly, it was fear that was fueling his nightmares and it haunted him at every turn. That's why it made sense when he thought Rodney killed him in that moment, because it was literally playing out like he thought it would. Surviving that motivated him to ultimately change his path in the end.
Right another big reason he probably couldn’t pull that trigger he knows that get back will have him even more shook thinking “they coming” every second
I LOVE this movie!! ♥️ I went on a date to see this at the show and was side eyeing my date the whole night bcuz I saw ALOT of similarities….needless to say, it was our last date 😂😂😂😂
Im so happy you dodged that bullet 🙌🏽
“The Show”
You must be from the Pittsburgh or somewhere in Ohio 😂
@@mrs.whatthehuck5610 I was thinking Chicago
🤣😂
@mrs.whatthehuck5610 or Detroit? Call soda "pop," next (I just love an exotic dialect, lol) 😍!
When Juanita found out Melvin planted weed in the back yard and then knocked Jody through the glass table after the argument escalated was way too much for me. That was beyond a red flag 😂
I really think Jody needed a reality check. A grown boy in society that is afraid to step into his manhood. Yvette need one as well. To think that was all she was limited to was him and guys like him. And with all of that, this happens more often than not. I'm not saying that Jody was a bad guy; but in order to claim leadership within your relationship, you have to truly step up and be there leader. Not when it benefits you.
Idk if my mind made this up or not but I always thought in the movie there was an older brother who was put out and then killed shortly after and that’s why he would always threaten his mom with the “If I get killed it will be on you” line.
It's a delete scene when he and his mom talk about how his brother went to some girl house on the opps side of town and that's when he got killed.
@@adriannadd1983 he went to Inglewood
@@royals080 thank you.
Exactly. He says it when he leaves the mom’s house after the fight with Melvin.
@@royals080same area where Melvin is from damn
This movie was terrible for the black community 😂😂😂
What movie isn't?
@@bororobo3805baby boy
This movie was supposed to be a serious movie but me and my siblings laughed throughout the whole thing lol..."You my rib girl"
I love how snoop is playing a damn pastor on BMF now 😂😂
Like wtf
Seen how he pull that gun out 😂😂😂😂
I wish a man would disrespect me and my mama in the same breathe 🤦🏾♀️
“You want something from the store?!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂