Too $hort
1966 (59 лет)Too Short is credited as being one of the pioneer rappers of West Coast hip hop. His rap lyrics are primarily about pimping, drug use, and promiscuity.
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It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Marguerite de Bourgoing
Wiz Khalifa, Lil B
By the dawn of the 21st century, hip-hop sales had reached an all-time high, but one thing has remained the same. The doors were still locked, and the music industry held the keys. Young artists began to self-market on the Internet, ultimately helping to collapse the music industry as we knew it. It’s Yours explores how it became possible to become a rap star through a Twitter account, YouTube site or Myspace page. It tells this story through the unique perspectives of numerous artists, producers, record industry insiders, and music and cultural critics.
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation
Martin Torgoff, Richard Lowe
Too $hort, B-Real
A look at the rise of crack cocaine in urban America in the 1980s and it's influence on popular culture, especially in hip-hop music.
Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Rapaport
Mary J. Blige, Коммон
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much publicized breakup in 1998. Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows the band to this day. He explores what's next for, what many claim, are the pioneers of alternative rap.
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Mac Dre: Legend of the Bay
Zachary Butler
Rob Aston, Davey D
Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. He left prison with a new lease on life, founded an independent record company, and then was murdered just when he began to emerge as a star. For the first time ever, his mother Wanda reveals the true experiences of a hip-hop legend.
Mac Dre: Legend of the Bay
Ghostride the Whip: The Hyphy Movement
DJ Vlad
Sway, E-40
The first film to definitively capture the energy and danger of "Hyphy," the Hip Hop youth movement exploding out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Narrated by Oakland native and television/radio personality Sway, this film explores the political, social and musical history behind the culture that popularized ghostriding the whip - walking, running or dancing next to a moving car with no driver.
Ghostride the Whip: The Hyphy Movement
2PAC 4Ever
Jay Lee Thomas
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Watani Tyehimba
Heartfelt interviews from his peers, behind the scenes footage, and concert clips show the side of Tupac that was far beyond the "thug" of the evening newscasts, the man who has become a cultural icon.
2PAC 4Ever
American Pimp
Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
John S. Dickson, Antonio Fargas
Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being flamboyant, pimping in various U.S. cities, bringing a woman into their group, taking a woman from another pimp, and the rules and regulations of pimping. The men are clear: it's about money.
American Pimp
Stop Pepper Palmer
Lonzo Liggins
Carlton Bluford, Too $hort
Three black guys from Utah, who happen to be the only black people from Utah, stumble upon a new black woman who has come to town. They begin to vie for her love but fear they aren't "black enough" to appeal to her. They hire someone from out of own, Pepper Palmer, to teach them how to act "blacker," except when he arrives, he's not quite what they had in mind.
Stop Pepper Palmer
Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?
William Arntz, Raymond E. Brown
Too $hort
Examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho’s and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. The film utilizes documentary footage, animation, satire and dramatization to illustrate examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street - be the players real-life pimps or corporate executives repeating the same power dynamics.
Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?
Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary
Coke Daniels
Dian Bachar, Malik Barnhardt
The hardest group you've never heard of is back. Gangsta Rap is a mockumentary based on a group of over the hill gangster rappers (circa NWA), trying to make a comeback. Its a hilarious look at the soft underbelly of hard core hip hop.
Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary
