Black-Ass Silver Screen 90’s Hotties

Oct 09, 2024

Welcome to This Black-Ass Life! This week, we want to relax our brains and celebrate the Black-ass beauties of 90’s cinema.

A non-exhaustive list

When Malcolm D. Lee sat down to create what ultimately became a Best Man universe, he clearly had one objective: to assemble the most beautiful collection of Black-ass people on the planet. And boy did he do it. This is such a hot collection of people that you ignore how utterly absurd the conflict between Morris Chestnut and Taye Diggs really is.

Speaking of HOT ensembles, let’s discuss Boomerang where you have so many hotties, it is almost difficult to watch. Eddie Murphy playing a terrible man but still too hot (!!), Robin Givens being a boss (literally and of hotness), Halle Berry keeping Eddie in check while being stunning, and then Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and David Alan Grier present as supporting cast (supporting in acting and hotness!).

One day, you need to sit down and have an honest conversation with yourself about Will Smith’s hotness. I (Mitu) present the job interview scene from Men in Black, your honor.
When they put Janet Jackson, those braids, and Regina King together in one film, Poetic Justice, they took the hotness scale and blew it up then put it back together then exploded it again.
You may be entitled to compensation if you fell victim to trying to find love through spoken word. The almost unmanageable combined hotness of Larenz Tate and Nia Long in Love Jones?!

We have one mother but we also have four. Their names? Angela, Whitney, Lela, and Loretta of Waiting to Exhale.

Speaking of Angela, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of so much hotness courtesy of its lead cast of Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, and Whoopi Goldberg, that you ignore Taye’s Jamaican (??) accent!
Tamala Jones is one of our great underrated hotties. A hottie across medium and decade! We want to focus on her hotness alongside Malinda Williams, Omar Epps, Taye, and more in The Wood.
Another HOTTIE? Natalie Desselle Reid of BAPS and Cinderella. GORG!!
Does anyone else remember the movie, Eddie? A HOT Whoopi and then she is surrounded by hot athletes? Whew!

There are many things you can say about A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, and one of those things is AWOOOOGA Lynn Whitfeld!!
Set It Off is famously sad. What isn’t? Jada’s FACE. Kimberly’s FACE. Queen’s FACE. And Vivica’s FACE. Do you get the running theme? They are HOT!

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