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This is a good interview and it kind of threw me to hear he was working with Megan Thee Stallion. I don't know if he produced her album but this sounds like it was way before she blew up. I've never really looked into his production work but this makes me curious who he's worked with that I never knew about. I've also wondered how much, if any, this movie had to do with the final album happening. I never really read much about what got them back together but I always suspected this movie helped a bit.

You can find them if you search Twitter and/or Instagram for the hashtag #lilsleepinguy. Be aware, however, that there are some things that you can never unsee.

Oddly wasn't coke that did him in, just old age/natural causes. Plus given how Evans lived his life, I don't think poor taste is in his vocabulary.

I have a theory that—although Q-Tip didn’t initially like how he came off in the movie—seeing things from Phife’s POV might have eventually opened him up some. At times during the film, he does seem a bit dismissive of Phife’s troubles, even though he also agrees to help him with the tour in 2008. It’s also possible that Phife saw—in his own words—that they were both holding on to their petty bullshit. Part of my reason for this theory is that Q-Tip does have a lyric in which he references their adventures being captured cinematically (on their last album). If he’d continued to have a problem with the film, I don’t think he would have mentioned it. I think I mentioned this Q-tip interview earlier but accidentally didn’t post it. He talks about a variety of topics, including Prince and Phife. It’s a long interview that’s visually dry, but content-wise is very worthwhile (especially, I imagine, if you work in the music industry). Q-tip is laid back and very articulate, doesn’t give brush-off answers.

I haven’t read the book but I did see the doc in theaters. It was interesting and Evans has produced some great films, but I remember being a little turned off by the self-aggrandizing, which I suppose comes with the territory. Another book that I really liked about Hollywood in the 60s and onward was William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen trade and its sequel. I don’t know if they’re still in print. i also really liked Noah Baumbach’s doc on Brian DePalma, called (weirdly enough) DePalma.

There were two previous movies by the same Production company "Cannon Films", even starring the same actor, Shô Kosugi. although in 3 very different roles. The First was "Enter the Ninja", which I found on PlutoTV, The Second was "Revenge of the Ninja" Also on Pluto, or Vudu for free, and then this one. There is no continuity of Story, or of any single character, so watching them all won't add anything except a bad taste in your mouth. You can trust me on that, or blame me for pointing out where to find them. LOL

After reading that book I'm honestly alive that Robert Evans is still alive at this point, the dude might as well have cocaine for blood at this point.