Hip-Hop documentaries are flooding my universe this week.

From this review of Byron Hurt’s Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes to a forthcoming one on tonight’s HBO showing of Bastards at the Party, a film featuring Cle Sloan — that mean-looking O.G. from Training Day and several rap videos — about the Bloods gang, I’ve had to have my critic’s hat on like a construction worker has to wear a hardhat.

Oh, and later in the week, the forecast is for a phone sesh with Christopher "Play" Martin about his Welcome to Durham DVD, a review of which you can read here.

-Slav