Keyword: hip-hop

Champaign Ill

7.2

2018

TV

HD

When tragedy strikes a superstar rapper, two guys from his entourage are forced to move back to their hometown and adjust to normal life again.

Jelly Roll: Save Me

8.1

2023

Movie

HD

A 38-year-old rapper turned country rocker named Jelly Roll is taking the country by storm. Addressing his own struggles with mental health and addiction. This documentary tells the story of the rise of the musician and Nashville native.

Nayola

7

2022

Movie

HD

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.

Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding

8

2022

Movie

HD

Christmas wedding bells are ringing for Jessica and Jayson as their mothers Tina and Nancy are fighting it out for wedding planning supremacy. Blare is running his own music label, and when he meets his formidable, beautiful new boss, Jai.

Bodied

7.3

2017

Movie

HD

A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.

School Town King

8

2020

Movie

HD

School Town King opens with a boy rapping. The 18-year-old Book and 13-year-old Non, living in the slums of Thailand, already know a life that started from zero. These slum kids rappers, who dream of becoming the best rappers in Thailand and buying a house for their mother, are struggling to find a way to quit school. They hate studying but what they hate the most is to recite the 12 commandments to be good children written by the military. Sometimes in quick and sensuous editing, or with a long tracking shot, Dir. Laisuwanchai builds the rhythm of the film, as the boys rap against poverty, inequality, and repressive educational systems. It is a cheerful and harmonious ensemble of kids rappers and a young director.

Classic Albums: Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

8

2007

Movie

HD

Behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Jay-Zs 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt.

Martha & Niki

7.1

2015

Movie

HD

Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became World Champions in Hip Hop.

Bulworth

6.8

1998

Movie

HD

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

The Beat

6.3

2003

Movie

HD

In a split narrative, a young man follows two paths: his fathers dream of him becoming a cop, and his own dream of becoming a rapper

Parade of the Dead

6.4

2010

Movie

HD

In 2010 a virus spread throughout the worlds population turning the survivors Into mindless zombies. Around the same time of these Apocalyptic events the Hilltop Hoods were due to make a dvd for their Album State of the Art. As civilisation collapsed, the Hoods were so self-involved they made their dvd anyway.

Tupac: Resurrection

8

2003

Movie

HD

Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop M.Cs. of all time.

Nas: Live from the Kennedy Center

4

2018

Movie

HD

Two decades after the albums critically acclaimed release, hip-hop artist Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to stage a symphonic rendition of Illmatic, one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history. The new concert film Great Performances - Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop captures the energy and nostalgia of this collaborative performance.