Jody was surrounded by enablers| Baby Boy 2001 - 2000s classic hood movie commentary 

The car was the real victim in this movie

I ain’t see Yvette drive HER car at all in this movie💀

Unfortunately there are way too many “baby boys” in our community today.

Melvin punched Jody so hard that his momma fell!😂😂

I understand that “Jody” was originally meant for 2Pac, but, I really can’t picture nobody else in this role but Tyrese. Props to Omar and Snoop for killing their roles too.👏🏾

Their son, the real baby boy, is the true victim of the movie. The pillow fort broke my HEART! He was always the side character and no one thought much about him. Reminds me kids actually going through this with their parents.

I’m 25 and I saw this movie when I was a little girl. I used to glorify this movie and I actually thought I was going to end up being a baby momma. I’m glad I didn’t and realized that I’m worth more. Yes I refuse to be a stereotype as well an an enabler. Black folks we have to do better. I don’t care how good the sex is , it’s not worth it. We have to break generational curses. This movie is ridiculous.

I never noticed it but all the males in this movie are "baby boys". Jody is a narcissistic mamas boy, Pea is a serious street dude who wants to change, Melvin is a combo of both but he's reformed, Rodney is a baby boy who has accepted his negative path in life because it's all he knows.

I honestly feel like the only reason Jody didn’t sleep with Pandora was because he knew it would immediately get back to Yvette 💀, I’m sure all the cheating he do is with people who don’t know her, but Pandora too close to home 💀

I always hated the agitated womb scene in the beginning seeing it when I was younger. I always thought he was dying and seeing a grown ass man in a weird womb-like place was just so disturbing to me. 😂 Jody’s mother looked TOO damn good in this movie.

I like how Juanita’s garden ended up prevailing and looking lovely. All it took was a little TLC and enabling to help it grow 😂

After Rodney is killed, the scene between Jody and Melvin is my favourite scene in the movie and definitely the most poetic. For the first time, they each understand each other, bond, share a moment and actually start a positive relationship ALL WITH NO DIALOGUE!!! Absolute masterpiece.

The fact he thought he had ownership of her car just bc he put some tints and rims on it is nuts, if anything he’s adding more expenses on it that SHE still has to pay for 😭

I think Jody was super annoying when he interacted wit women but I think he was right to be worried about his mom and Melvin. he’s a felon and has said he’s killed people. Also Jody speaks on how the men before have hit her so as her son I could see that being a scary situation for him, then he talks to Melvin’s kids and finds out that Melvin used to beat his baby momma. As her son it makes sense for him to not approve, I don’t like how the mom brushed all that off when those are red flags.

I love how judgemental that Tupac poster looks 😭😭

The way you overlooked Melvin putting Jody in a chokehold to prove his dominance over him, kissing the mom after coming clean about planting weed in the garden while giving Jody a look, and the moms desperate plea to keep Melvin around after he just punched her adult son (given her experience with past partners) is... mind blowing

LOVE the intro. 😂 Jody was afraid of death because of his older brother was murdered after he moved out. He thought the same would happen to him, which is probably why he was so afraid to leave the nest, among other things.

#1 red flag: when he doesn't have a car and wants to drive yours. Never will I EVER allow a man to drive MY car around, so I can help him cheat??? Hell naw😂

Jody is the birth of the weak modern man. No accountability, responsibility or maturity and false masculinity, he's the victim of a young brother who probably doesn't have a father or any positive male in his life. Men need to be men and raise these kids up the best way we can, be positive in out family's lives and treat the good women in our lives good

"Well, I guess you won't mind if I used your car then....." He really ain't shit!😅😅😅

Notice that when Melvin was talkin to the both of them, Jody had his back turned towards Melvin, ignoring him. Melvin had Pea's undivided attention. Pea was looking straight at him. Only person not trying to hear it was Jody

Side note: I think Pea would’ve went toe-to-toe with Melvin and probably would have got rid of him for Jody. He needs more respect as the best hood best friend

The fact i was just Yvette the entire 2022 from having a miscarriage, to him trying to control me, to him being with different women, and to this man well boy taking my car. Every woman needs to realize and accept when to let a childish man go!!

As a 28 year old young man this movie taught me a lot. Not to make the same mistakes Jody made. To be a independent black man. To respect his queen /woman. You know we all have to matured or go through tribulations in life to be who we really destine to be ,mentally and spiritually. It takes a lot of time for others though. But when you reach that point in life, you truly appreciate life.

The son building a fort for protection just for it to be kicked down 🥺

As a teenager/in my early 20s, I always found Melvin to be a necessary evil. Now in my early 30s, I know he was as genuinely trying to help Jody out. The ending after Jody smokes Rodney and Melvin takes the gun speaks volumes. The movie isn’t perfect but it was a good snapshot of this era. Love the constant yellow tint too lmao

This type of behavior is still playing out in 2024. All the baby boys in my life. (Uncles and cousins) have been jail birds their whole lives. Now my younger brother have both been to jail before they’ve had their first job. The feelings of grief are an understatement.

This movie is the blueprint for young toxic relationships till this day it's not a coincidence that this was played religiously on black tv the definition of "programming" and conditioning.....

I LOVE the way that black women dressed back then 🥰. So classy, natural and beautiful without trying too hard! I miss this era!

I really hate that BET used to air Baby Boy 15 times a day when I was growing up lol. I remember watching as a kid thinking Jody was so cool, thinking his mom was tripping for being with Melvin and putting him out, thinking his bike was fly, thinking Yvette was wrong for going behind Jody's back and talking to Rodney on the phone. I just rewatched it a little while ago as a grown man and all I could think was "damn this nigga is a loser". Jody deserved damn near everything bad that happened to him and everyone around him treated him exactly the way he deserved to be treated.

Melvin was the only man in the movie. And I never understood why people were cheering for Jody in the end as if he had grown up. The only thing he did was move from his mama's house into Evett's house. He still didn't have a car or a job and he got her pregnant AGAIN.

“Glossy brown butter ball”😂💀omg I can’t

I still don’t know how Jody went on a whole ass shopping spree and the car shop for upgrades with a measly amount of $400 😂😂😂

I can't believe you didn't realize that Jody's fear of being killed was because of what happened to his brother. Also, the agitation (childbirth) he experienced in the womb, was definitely an allegory (albeit a thinly-veiled one) for him growing up and becoming a man.

John singleton popping up as a booster is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

Chile this movie was TOXXXXICCCC 🤣🤣🤣 jody really was a baby and a narcissist every woman he came across did what he wanted. That's why melvin came in and made him see you are a grown man not a child time to grow up he didn't like it. I knew quite a few Jodie men who would rather leech off ppl than actually go out and achieve anything. The guys who find it easier to hustle than actually sit down make a plan and execute it. But why do the most when the bare minimum is accepted. No one really pushed jody except the man the women around made excuses for him.Jody is the true pookie ray ray and tyrone arcatype that exist out in the world the pacified black man who's coddled and has potential but does nothing with it but figure out how to scheme to the next one. Sorry for the rant but its men like jody out there

Not the throuple 😭 This movie had no resolution in the end. Jody didn’t get anything of his own. He didn’t get a job. He made up with Melvin and knocked Yvette up for a second time 🥴

Tyrese “what do you want from me” Gibson was hilarious 😂

This movie was terrible for the black community 😂😂😂

Chyle that car was being used by the whole neighborhood. Jodi was just toxic wanted all the accolades of being a "MAN" but was still doing boyish things.

He most definitely making Jody uncomfortable on purpose lmao...it can only be one King/Queen of the castle

What always cracked me up was how Rodney parole officer just gone approve him to come live with Evette?😂 So just because you talk to someone on the phone in prison you automatically go on their list of future living arrangements

I got called a "Jody" at work and i was very much unaware until i watched the movie 😂😂😂

Can we talk about how Jody was 21 and Peanut was still a teenager? I don't quite remember her age in the film but I know she was younger than both Jody and Yvette. Taraji P. Henson said that Yvette's story in the film was her story when she was with her son's late father. I read her memoir Around the Way Girl and her baby daddy was just like Jody. He put her through it. It made sense why she played this role so well. The difference between Yvette in the film and Taraji is that Taraji didn't stay with her son's father. She got her baby and took her ass to LA with just $700 to pursue her career. I also never understood why Yvette never reported her car missing when Jody would take it.

“You want something from the store?!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The fact that Peanut and his daughter all but disappeared... Can we talk about that part?

" FORD-Y DOLLARS?!??!! 👀😲😖🤯" LOL 🤣

I find that Evette was a good parallel to Jody’s mom. They were both strong women, who seemed to have a penchant for outwardly masculine “roughneck” type of guys, despite the drama/trauma it can come with. I think the difference is that Evette was less willing to tolerate BS from these guys( not passively letting Rodney live with her, and not letting Jody run roughshod over her). Plus, to me, she seemed to not let those relationships endanger her children(though Jody and Melvin were a much different story, than with his brother) I find Jody’s plight palatable, and relatable as a black man. However some of his antics(bogarding his mom, stealing from and arguing with Evette, antagonizing Melvin, not even looking for work besides hustling here and there) make him very hard to sympathize with. It’s like he wants all the vices( girls, car, street cred, respect, command of household) of manhood, without ever really earning it. I also feel Jody’s transition to “manhood” was both oversimplified and too extreme. It took him being humiliated in various ways, outright called out by Rodney, knocked the fuck out by Melvin, almost killed, and then to commit a murder before he “grows up”. Keep in mind, Jody’s only supposed to be like 20 here. I feel like that wasn’t really emphasized enough. In the end, All he did was change who’s house he’s living in, and have another baby with Evette. Did he get a new job, does he go to school, are there no other women he’s sleeping with? I mean, besides making up with Melvin and his girl, how else did his mindset change? I feel like the bar was set very low for his manhood, tbh. Now I did like Melvin’s depth. At first he seems like a Brutish, almost monstrous antagonist, that we’re supposed to see as “better” than Jody due to his “real nigga” credentials, but honestly, that’s not what makes him a man at all. That stuff’s in the past for him, he’s matured. when Jody sarcastically asks if he should be like him to be a man, Melvin said”no, u could never be like me, and you don’t need to be like me to be a man” I did like that scene. Also, him silently comforting Jody and helping him dispose of the murder weapon was very well done. Overall, it was an ok movie, but in some ways it just seemed too meanspirited for me.

Jody’s obsession with death came from his brother dying in the streets. It was referenced in the movie.

This wasn't a movie commentary but a jody roast session, and I was here for every moment. I was engaged throughout the entire video and laughed multiple times. Nonetheless, your points about Jody were well taken, mainly because he was a toxic and damaged hot mess everyone enabled. Great video. (:

Snoop Dogg should never wear a tank top 😂

Also, Jody has a fear of being kicked out and killed because it happened to his older brother which is probably one of the reasons he behaves the way he does and also the other reason why he had those kids. Least I thought they said that in the movie briefly.

Baby boy is truly part of the black experience

I never realized this movie was so toxic. It came out when I was in my early 20s and boy did I live like the women characters in this movie. I’m so glad I’m pass that phase of my life and I’m never going back.

Why did Yvette act like such a toddler? Like, she is seriously regressed. She needs therapy.

He was also a grown man capable of making his OWN decisions 🤦🏿‍♀️

A man on a bike is a big red flag🚩🚩

Tarhaji P Henson is so beautiful in this movie...

I love how sweetpea calls his girlfriend and her mom unstable creatures and then apologizes because if a man were to call me a b, he'd be out on the street no matter what. I love Omar Gooding and I remember him from Smart Guy.❤😂 He always made me laugh 😂

This movie was very deep, lots of PTSD. so many layers. I wish it could've been a part 2, they got married, got education, job.

Why didn’t Yvette just call Rodney parole officer or the cops? 😂

Melvin popping up naked in the kitchen was wild disrespectful

I think its also important to note that Jody is only supposed to be like 20 in this film, which is still pretty young, so while he does act like an adult in some situations it's understandable that he's still immature in some regards.

Jodi was bordering on being a narcissist.

Fun fact the rapper Tupac was supposed to play Jody but passed before It happened

When Juanita found out Melvin planted weed in the back yard and then knocked Jody through the glass table after the argument escalated was way too much for me. That was beyond a red flag 😂

You did a great job commentating this film. As an adult, I feel like subconsciously this movie paints the picture that you should stick with “the baby boy” because eventually he will “grow” to love, appreciate & respect you…and that’s never really the case. A lot of women and men don’t love themselves enough to love each other. It’s the struggle love saga but I do still enjoy the messages and the best movie quote ever, “mama gotta have a life too”.

There’s a lot to digest. None of the men have their own stuff-car, house. It’s the women. It’s emasculating. Seeing this movie often, I don’t think Melvin is the bad guy. Yeah, Jody had a right to be concerned about DV, but in the end, Melvin was there for him. The irony is lost on Jody throughout the film.

You’re like a more serious and thoughtful version of Primm’s Hood Cinema with the 90’s classics. I like it!

I really wish there was like a 'Baby Girl' or something. From Yvette pov & story. Cuz clearly she had some deep rooted traumas from her upbringing as well.. I would say off rip tho. Yvette has severe daddy issues, and That Rodney was physically+++ abusive to her throughout their rship.. amongst him seeming to be quite a bit older than her.. I would infer that Yvette had been through quite a lot before Jodie.. which would make his cheating & childishness more tolerable to her for at least a while.. cuz she Juss grateful to have him do certain things.. and grateful to have him not do certain things in comparison to the worse she's had. As opposed to the better she deserves.

Girl,,i love this page!! ! It's refreshing to hear a black woman's perspective on this character because i've heard dudes give jody too many excuses. The older i get, the more i see how many baby boys are amongst us. Also, I loved the emphasis on how many times you had to remind us that it was her car!!! lmaoo Thank you for telling the truth!!! ❤

I WAS YVETTE WHILE PREGNANT. it took my dumb ahh ex the father of MY beautiful daughter to stab me when I FINALLY SAID AND SHOWED I WAS DONE for me to change my mindset. I say this, not to take blame off him, but I PLAYED A ROLE in allowing that man to do me wrong like Yvette. every argument of course ended in sex, every ass whooping of course ended in me begging police to not take him bc “he is a black man”. After 8 years of marriage fuck a tattoo HE MADE ME FINALLY HAVE HIS BABY. he had multiple baby moms but never wanted me to speak to em I tried but they were all across the country. Anyway, watched this movie again the other day and finally being in the situation this movie is now one of the ones that irritate me. Mf had my car while I’m walking w his son and pregnant. Mf made me lose my good job bc he thought I was cheating and beat me before work so many times I lost my job being late. I was “cheating” in his mind bc I wasn’t sleeping w him willingly anymore…bc I was falling out of love and didn’t view him as a partner

Jody was 19 years old he still needs to mature …I blame the mother for raising him like dat

What's wild is how this stuff is so real

Baby Boy is one my top 5 most hated movies. I really don’t think that he really learned anything through empathy but through the fear of being killed, being left alone or not getting what he wants.

I spit water when Rodney called Jody, "a bitch" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

42:08 the way Jodie’s mama fell into that plant like she got hit made me laugh harder than I should have🤣🤣

This movie was sad in my opinion, too many of our young bruthas are Jody's, even more so nowadays

19:34 Jodie had a fear of dying because his brother got killed. He never healed and still has PTSD from it which is what brings about his codependency issues with his mother..not necessarily the Oedipus complex as Melvin mentioned

The way you analyze these movies 😂😂 I can’t get enough and the way you said Jody got “a peek of the press and curl” 😂😂

I really think Jody needed a reality check. A grown boy in society that is afraid to step into his manhood. Yvette need one as well. To think that was all she was limited to was him and guys like him. And with all of that, this happens more often than not. I'm not saying that Jody was a bad guy; but in order to claim leadership within your relationship, you have to truly step up and be there leader. Not when it benefits you.

Tyrese bodied this role-- mainly because he was playing hisself 🫠

I miss the days when Tyrese was seen and not heard (acting and doing music) via social media 🫠.

“what you doing with this old ass pizza” this was definitely a classic 💀

One detail to pay attention to is when Melvin explained "Guns and Butter" to Jody and Pea. Jody explained this to Pea earlier in the movie. Except Jody called his version the "Buyers or Sellers" It wasn't exactly the same as Melvin's explanation or meaning, but the idea was there. Jody and Pea just didn't catch what Melvin was ranting about because they were focused on being mad with Melvin.

There is a deleted scene that explains Jody's fear of being kicked out. Its where him and his mother are reminiscing over his brother. And how her kicking his brother out eventually led to his death.

This movie was supposed to be a serious movie but me and my siblings laughed throughout the whole thing lol..."You my rib girl"

Jody: whispering Melvin: WHAT? RU-vid: *goes to ad*🤣🤣🤣

He fantasized death after his brother was killed. His mother put his brothet out over a man and his brother ended up dead. Jody thought he would experience the same fate. He was traumatized and needed therapy.

The standard for the men in this movie is so low. The fact that them being together in the end was considered a "happy" ending...

"Hey, mama, bring me back a fatburger! Put some cheese on it! You know how I like it...." "Go in tha house!!!" 😆😆😆😆

I think he didn't sleep with Pandora because he knew that her box would be like opening Pandora's Box with Yvette. 🤣

Sigmund Freud has entered the chat lol. That’s all I can think when I watch this movie and recap.

I love how almost every single character in the film is dirty and Jody winds up being the only one disciplined and forced to change. His mom is an enabler, hypocrite, bad parent and has horrible taste in partners. She’s partially responsible for the death of her other son because of her poor choices in men and changing loyalties. She’s ripping Jody a new butthole for the weed but then lets Melvin off the hook and gives him a nasty sloppy bedroom kiss right in front of Jody to complete the slap in her son’s face. Like what the…? She also never questions Melvin about his other kids or his beating of their mothers. Melvin gets away with all of the above mentioned things. Pea is a straight up lunatic and I’m assuming gets away with murder? Homegirl gets away with chatting with ex boyfriends in the penitentiary. The young thugs aren’t learning any lessons except that they should be fully armed and hostile at all times so they don’t get snuck up on again. Rodney doesn’t get held accountable for anything (unless there’s an afterlife), he just gets aired out. His buddies continue to be criminals. Literally everyone is a problem in the film.

The character Jody totally reminds me of my father sadly a man child who refuse to grow up and get his life together I watched the film when I was a kid and even then I knew how toxic Jody is

Jodi was a mess & he was a selfish ass mess at that. He literally used what he got to get what he wanted, the same thing a woman would get bashed for. Jodi was wild asf & mad insecure, he had no issue with Melvin because it was one sided asf. Yvette deserved what she allowed & her mom deserved happiness, you did that one sis 💛💛

“Girl u supposed to open the blinds from the bottom wyd” 18:57 LMAOOOOO FR

Jody was likely fixated on death because he experienced what his brother went thru (got kicked out while momma was dating a new guy, killed shortly after), he likely thought it was his destiny since the same things were happening to him as well.

I love how snoop is playing a damn pastor on BMF now 😂😂

Melvin is Jody's future, and he fought it, literally. BUT HE GREW IN THE END.