Movies: Rap music

This documentary film examines the transformative power of lyrics in the world of hip-hop music. Through dynamic archival footage, in-depth interviews and excursions with artists like Nas, Tech9, J Cole, Rapsody and Anderson. Paak, the film explores t...

One of the top poets of today, Mark Grist lives and breathes the rap battle scene. Follow him to a war of words as he takes on legendary MC Loonie in the rap battle bear pit of the Philippines....

TUPAC: ASSASSINATION II - RECKONING details the motive for murder in a follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed predecessor "Tupac: Assassination - Conspiracy or Revenge." RECKONING takes you into an unprecedented level of access regar...

Reasonable Doubt is the debut album of American rapper Jay-Z, released June 25, 1996 on Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States and on Northwestside Records in the United Kingdom. The album features production by DJ Premier, Ski, Knobody and Clark K...

"Maglabay Ra In Sakit" — a Tausug phrase which roughly translates to "this pain shall pass" — showcases the spirit and resilience of RKJun (Khalid Hamid), a young musician in Zamboanga City who is determined to pursue rap music even as he is beset by...

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Tupac: Assassination is a documentary film about the unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The film is produced by Frank Alexander (Tupac's bodyguard who was the only guard assigned and present at the time of the shooting) and RJ Bond, who also dir...

A feature documentary about Ohio-based artist Sparks McFly and his friends as they attempt to conceptualize, write, record, and produce a rap album over the course of just 7 days....

A struggling rapper finds a way in when he is approached by a more respected, hardcore rapper....

Satellites in Texas is a feature documentary following musician Boome as he copes with his brothers sudden death. It follows his humble beginnings as he climbs the ladder of the music industry. Raised by a single immigrant mother Boome defies the odd...

A 3-minute tribute to the late Mac Miller....

A character study of Puerto Rican struggling rapper Negro Gonzalez, a portrait of his island, a beautiful land tarnished by US colonization and an ode to the unbreakable spirit of Puerto Rican artists....

An intimate look at the evolution and impact of women emcees and rappers, told by the trailblazing artists who helped create a musical and cultural empire....

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Long before becoming Family Force 5, brothers Jacob, Joshua and Solomon Olds headed Christian rap group The Brothers. These are the music videos that accompanied their 1994 album, Fact & Reality....

Hip Hop Symphonique is a creation by Mouv', the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Adami. It is based on a selection of ten emblematic French rap tracks from 1990 to 2015, replayed, rearranged and re-orchestrated for Symphonic Orchestra & a...

After Noisey Atlanta, Noisey Jamaica and Noisey Chiraq, comes a documentary hosted and co-directed by Mike Skinner (The Streets) that takes the temperature of the rap scene in Israel and Palestine. During Noisey Israel Palestine we meet Tamer Nafar, ...

Building on the success of the first edition, Mouv', the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and Adami present the second creation of HIP HOP SYMPHONIQUE. Oxmo Puccino, Gaël Faye, Les Sages Poètes de la rue, Georgio and Black M will join forces ...

At the end of 2018 Colle Der Fomento, the most enduring italian hip hop group, were about to release “Adversus”, a full album after more than a decade since their previous classic “Anima e Ghiaccio”, for this movie the group (along with the producer ...

"Crooked" follows the trials and tribulations of Sensational, a consummate original and posterchild for the underdog, but it celebrates the creative mind and independent spirit, longing for freedom....