DJay (Terrence Howard) is a pimp and drug dealer who is dissatisfied with his life. After acquiring a keyboard and reacquainting himself with an old friend from school, Key (Anthony Anderson), who has become a sound technician, DJay decides to try his hand at making hip hop songs. Key and his sound-mixer friend Shelby (DJ Qualls) help DJay put together several "flow" songs. While DJay quickly proves to have a real talent for lyrics, in which he expresses the frustrations of a small-time hustler struggling to survive, it is his first fixed-length song, done at the urging of these friends, which most obviously has the chance of becoming a hit and getting local radio play.

• Anthony Anderson
• DJ Qualls
• Terrence Howard
• Taraji P. Henson
• Ludacris
• Taryn Manning
• Elise Neal

Genres:

Drama, Biography, Musical

Release date:

2005-07-22

External links:

Hustle & Flow at IMDB Hustle & Flow at Wikipedia