“Dope” began in the ears of Rick Famuyiwa.
The Los Angeles filmmaker was listening to Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and Tyler the Creator — genre-shifting R&B and hip-hop musicians prone to freewheeling experimentation — and he heard a new sound. Though many, like the collective Odd Future, were from parts of LA close to Inglewood, the community where Famuyiwa grew up, they struck the 41-year-old as not at all like his contemporaries.
“They were hanging around in all these same places but their energy was completely different,” Famuyiwa said in an interview last month at the Cannes Film Festival.
