I dont get it...Why did Skinny drop the tape into the toilet???

This is pasted from my other response below, but I think it applies here:

a quick note: Skinny didn't "remember" D Jay because he never KNEW D Jay in the first place! The whole thing was a hustle on D Jay's part, and a good one at that, I'll give him.

He bought/brought essentially the best weed he could get his hands on, it looked like an ounce at least, and gave it to Skinny in hopes of getting an "IN". He wanted to hustle him, convince him that he'd once known him, in hopes that he'd accept his (essentially) faux friendship and accept and listen to D Jay's demo tape.

The main thing to realize about this film is that D Jay is a Bad Guy.

Now, I'm not trying to diminish a good movie; it was a good movie, but every movie falls into certain cliches.

The assumption a lot of people seem to have is that D Jay is the Good Guy and that Skinny Black, mentioned from the beginning, and confronted at the climax, and ultimately triumphed over, is the Bad Guy.

Wrong.

D Jay is the Bad Guy. The Good Guy is Nola. She's under D Jay's wing at the beginning, and she comes out on top at the end. She's gone from (according to D Jay, and not disputed by her) turning tricks at a truck stop, to turning tricks for D Jay, and then, like Key said about talking the talk and walking the walk, she went out, walked the walk, and got D Jay's tape played.

I do agree that Skinny Black worked hard to get where he was and that a successful artist is going to have a bunch of nobodies following him around looking for a favor. And yes, D Jay did try to play Skinny Black for selfish gain. But at the same time, Skinny Black has forgotten his roots (Memphis, not D Jay, whom he did not know prior to that night) and is unnecessarily hostile to his first fans (which does include D Jay).

But let us not forget that D Jay sells drugs, exploits young girls for profit, physically abuses women, and violently threw a young woman (and her infant son!!!) out into the street. He is not a good person. He also serves as an antagonist in Key's and Yevette's marriage; had Yevette been a lesser woman, D Jay might have cost Key his marriage (though Key had a hand in it as well).

D Jay does have some good moments, few and far between as they may be, but they are enough to convince some he's the Good Guy. Having to think about things like this is what makes a good movie great.

As for the ending, it doesn't matter what D Jay does with the guards' tape. His own future isn't certain. He hasn't even got a record deal. He was played on the radio a bit. Memphis clearly has an active music scene, so the radio stations would be featuring up and comers all the time. It does not mean that any of them actually make it big. He could also have been shot by Skinny Black and/or his men. The point made by the end, I think, is that Nola changed her life around. Now, I'm sure about the rest of it, but I'm venturing my opinion that the triumph of the movie is Nola becoming In Charge, not D Jay getting on the radio.

If you're still reading, thanks. :)

This scene actually made me LOVE this movie and place it among my all-time favorites simply because it didn't end in full glory. It usually never happens in full glory; most artists have to submit their "demo" or song to multiple people/DJ's/A&R's before they get any serious recognition, so for him to give Skinny a tape and be "on his way" would have been a bit too much of a fairy-tale. Though, I probably would have still liked the movie if that had happened.

Being that I run a music blog myself, if I listened to every artist submission, I wouldn't have time to live my own life. There just isn't enough time in a day, which is why he threw it away. Hell, I bet the real life Ludacris (Chris Bridges) actually has thrown away artist's demo's; probably not 10 minutes after receiving it though, lol.

He probably didn't expect DJay to come in behind him and beat the *beep* out of him. Haha

Don't forget he was very drunk: we don't know if the tape dropped out accidentally or was thrown into the toilet. Skinny had an ego and wouldn't have cared if he'd ruined a tape. He himself said he didn't have a tape deck any longer to play it on.

yea being nice to a guy that gave u free weed is one thing... letting some stranger get fame of ur hard work. u better give me a lot more weed for that dog. he prob get a demo an hour handed to him.

Skinny was a phony a-hole.

To the OP -- Skinny never really liked DJ. They were getting high and drunk together and they were kind of kicking it, but Skinny's a punkass, in the end. Throwing the demo in the toilet was his bitchass way of ruining DJ's hopes. If you really follow that scene closely, you can tell how Skinny actually feels about DJ. He loathes the guy. He just pretends to like him because he's a punkass bitch and the conversation is entertaining him. About as much as pissing on the demo entertains him. Skinny's a classic case of someone who makes it famous and then only gives a f--k about himself.

Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.

He was an *beep* but I think it had to do with realizing Djay had just been playing him all along. The whole conversation was actually just a pitch to give him his demo, something Skinny was probably sick of after years and years of it. When he got in the toilet he realized how Djay had "pimped" him, and in anger threw the tape in the toilet and pissed on it.