Shout Out to: "The Payback"

Heard James Brown's "The Payback" earlier today. I can remember that song from when I was a very little kid (my older sister had the single) but now every time I hear it, I think of this scene from Dead Presidents. It's one of the best and most appropriate uses of a song for a movie soundtrack ever.

Dead Presidents' main character, Anthony (Larenz Tate) is a kid growing up in New York City in the early 70's. He's in a bar shooting pool for money against a young wannabe hoodlum, Cowboy (Terrence Howard.) Anthony wins the game and asks to get paid. Cowboy proceeds to cuss Anthony out, throw him down on the pool table and cut his face with a knife.

Later, Anthony joins the Marines and is shipped into combat in Vietnam -- where he gets tough in a hurry. Anthony then gets out of the service and returns to the same bar, where he runs into Cowboy again. They start shooting pool again... and then we hear that funky guitar intro to James Brown's classic and you just know something bad is gonna happen...

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