but all the coke in the world couldn't make this movie anywhere close to watchable. the makers of this film try SOOOOO hard to get you to realize that the main characters are cholos. after the 10,000th "homes" "essay" "vato", we get it. thanks. then there are the "artistic" shots where the people speaking are all but in the dark. you can barely make them out, and they're in and out of the frame. or the ones where they are REALLY close to the camera. really, i didn't care to know the state of their pores. and the scenes are LONG. ridiculously, painfully, needlessly long. honestly, watching it HURT. so unless you are masochistic, then please, for your future, do not see Hip Hop Locos.