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what would you call it then?
I don't know, movies. Comedy, drama, action, crime, etc. Just because they have a lot of black people in the cast and the soundtrack is full of rap music doesn't make it a "hip-hop movie".
Wikipedia seems to be down with calling them "Hood films":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_film
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