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Who's The Man?
Who's The Man?

Who's The Man?

Visual image Doctor Dré
Visual image Ed Lover
Publisher New Line Cinema Corp.
Date1993
Mediumink; paper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 39 15/16 × 26 15/16 in. (101.441 × 68.421 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1998.897.1
Text Entries

Who's the Man? (1993) is a comedy film directed by Ted Demme staring Yo! MTV Raps hosts Doctor Dré and Ed Lover. The film follows two NYC barbers end up at a police academy to try out careers in law enforcement. The film features cameo appearances from top Hip-Hop artist such as Busta Rhymes, Ice-T, Kris Kross, Phife Dawg, Queen Latifah, KRS-One and Run-D.M.C..


Ed Lover (James Roberts, b. 1963) is an actor, musician, radio personality, and former MTV VJ. He hosted "The Ed Lover Show" on SiriusXM's old-school hip hop station BackSpin and was the co-hosts of MTV's Hip-Hop music program Yo! MTV Raps with Doctor Dré (André  Brown, b. 1963) who is also a radio personality and former MTV VJ.

Two men dressed as cops hold guns looking at each other. Boarder of poster list popular hip-hop artist and their picture. Title of movie is printed inside a cop badge and credits are printed in white ink on bottom.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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