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THE HOMEBOY

By | December 2003

When I saw “The Homeboy” coming my way I foresaw a film about an over-the-top irritating knucklehead doing his best to act like a tough guy while showing us over and over again how rotten his musical “talents” really are. MTV is already chock full of that kind of horseshit…

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