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The 7 Best Soundtracks to Underwhelming Films, Ranked

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7. Strictly Business

Aside from serving as one of Halle Berry’s earliest film roles, this forgettable ’90s relic helped to usher in Mary J. Blige (“You Remind Me”). Its soundtrack also features Heavy D and the forever-classic Jeff Redd joint “You Called and Told Me.” Ask your uncle who thinks he’s not an uncle.

6. High School High

While we’re in support of dunking on the popular mid-1990s White savior trope, this cinema spoof sucked. But its companion LP plays like a Black music block party set in 1996, with a D’Angelo and Erykah Badu duet, a couple of Wu joints, Faith, Kim, Roots, Tribe, De La, and many others in attendance.

5. Judgment Night: Music From the Motion Picture

If nothing else, this meh thriller is notable for inspiring a harmonious hip-hop and rock mashup (see: collabs between Onyx and Biohazard, Ice-T and Slayer, Cypress Hill and Pearl Jam) — a concept that Jay-Z and Linkin Park fumbled one…