Jim Lujan is one of the great hidden talents within short film animation. His humor is fresh and playful with an honest bite of satire. He looks at the California that he knows, and shows his audience its absurdity and quirky appeal. Lujan touches on a cultural phenomena that is worthy making fun of... the suburbanization of gangstas and thugs. Rap and hip-hop is no longer about the music. It's about selling some sort of tough guy attitude.
Rock'n'roll died under the same curse of marketing "cool". *Mama I'm a Thug* is quite possibly the *Citizen Kane* of independent short film animation in southern California for 2003. I highly recommend it.