"Movie Synopsis: An in-depth look at the artist...proclaimed by many as the "greatest rapper alive." With comprehensive and personal interviews with Lil' Wayne, this film features insight from those that know him best..."The Carter" premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and features an intimate and in-depth look into the public and private life of Lil Wayne - showcasing his most personal moments and giving audiences a peak at Wayne in a way that they have never seen him before."
"COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS, a documentary produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the ongoing debates about artistic expression, copyright law and (of course) money..."
"COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS showcases many of hip-hop music's founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground along with emerging artists such as audiovisual remixers Eclectic Method. The film also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been sampled, such as renowned drummer Clyde Stubblefield, the world's most sampled musician, best known for his work with James Brown, as well as commentary by funk legend George Clinton, another highly sampled musician."
The Director Brett Ratner: Shooter Series: Volume 1 DVD was released September 15th on Genius Products. I received a review copy but lost track of it so here's some superficial info about why it looks worth checking out!
The DVD has more than a bunch of music videos ranging from Mariah Carey to Public Enemy to Foxy Brown including LL Cool J's Pink Cookies In A Plastic Bag Getting Crushed By Buildings. It also has Ratner directed commercials and PSAs, films made at NYU, home movies and an auto-documentary. Plus a nice little 32 page artsy book.
Tech N9ne's Strictly Strange DVD was released September 22 on Strange Music. The DVD chronicles the 2008 Strictly Strange Tour that included Krizz Kaliko and Kutt Calhoun.
I wanted to toss this up because it reminds me of how much I like this genre of Texas music. As time passes, I like it more and more, especially when it's chopped and screwed. I'm also wanting to go back and listen to early Dirty South tracks from the Deep South. When I first encountered Juvenile I was somewhat dumbfounded. But now I'm feeling more and more of that music.
Like most things I'm into, I get into them way early or way late, but I rarely just follow trends in my personal listening. Can't do that with clothes either. It just seems like such an obvious move. Yadadamean?
CodeBlack Entertainment and The Dance Insider have joined forces to release the Shane Sparks' Dance Stylz DVD on December 1st, the first in a series of:
"dance/fitness DVDs featuring some of America's top choreographers and dance crews, including popular personalities such as celebrity choreographers Shane Sparks (So You Think You Can Dance, America's Best Dance Crew) and Marty Kudelka (clients include Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez), dance crew The Beat Freaks (America's Best Dance Crew) and others."
Flyin' Cut Sleeves, a documentary film from 1993 produced and directed by Henry Chalfant (Style Wars) and Rita Fecher, will be available on DVD October 20th.
"Flyin' Cut Sleeves, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film's co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960's and early 1970's, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders' families and began to document their lives..."
"Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. In fact, the "families" had a stabilizing effect, enabling the youths to cope with their troubled environment...Movements of national liberation and such organizations as the Black Panthers and Young Lords Party influenced the young gang leaders to aspire to be more than warriors and to become, to some degree, a positive force in their communities."
"When Rita Fecher returned after twenty years...she found that they had stayed in the community of their youth, that they were deeply committed to improving conditions there and that they were engaged in helping their own children survive in the hazardous street environment. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation."
Sticky Fingaz takes the director's chair for A Day in the Life, starring Omar Epps and Mekhi Phifer, now available on DVD. The whole darn thing is done in rap as you can see from the following trailer.
"Go deep into the underworld of hip-hop groupies and video vixens where sex is the backstage pass and young ladies use their bodies as a way to promote themselves and further their own careers. Narrated by top talk radio personality Wendy Williams, Kiss and Tail: Hollwood Jump Off takes a provocative look at the seedy side of the music business where hip-hop groupies pay a high price to get a taste of the celebrity lifestyle."
"Hear the real, raw truth about the groupie lifestyle from the scene's biggest stars, including Ja Rule, Big Boi, Akon, Juelz Santana, Twista and more, and get the inside story from one of hip-hop's most notorious femmes, Karrine: Superhead Steffens. Reenactments show how Karrine sexed her way through the hip-hop world, climbing her way up the ladder before crashing to the bottom. Now a bestselling author, she's still kissing and telling, but the huge stars she allegedly bedded are telling their side of the story."
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