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Bolletjes Blues

Spike, an aspiring rapper, gets sucked into a criminal environment and ends up in jail for smuggling drugs.

2006-03-23 | nl

Gen A: Do What You Love

Jakub Strach aka NobodyListen is a successful Czech DJ and music producer. A portrait of his life and work can be seen as a manifesto of the millennial club-going generation. After hundreds of shows and preparations for the upcoming, renowned Addict party, the DJ must deal with the consequences of inflicting a wound scarring his image. Footage from the club backstage mingles with scenes of everyday life in which NobodyListen ponders the dark sides of the club scene, like drugs and misogyny. During the shooting, the Covid pandemic strikes, revealing the insecurities of work in culture.

2022-10-27 | cs

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

2007-12-21 | en

Cypress Hill & the London Symphony Orchestra – Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Hip-hop meets classical as the legendary Cypress Hill play an exclusive show at the Royal Albert Hall alongside the London Symphony Orchestra. Celebrating 30 years since the release of their seminal album Black Sunday, they are accompanied by unique arrangements from the glorious 70-piece orchestra.

2025-03-30 | en

The Game: The Documentary

See the movie that started it all.

2005-05-03 | en

The Game: The Documentary 2

10 years after releasing his debut album The Documentary, Compton rapper, The Game, recently released a double album in two separate installments. The first disk was titled The Documentary 2 and the second which dropped a week later was called The Documentary 2.5. This 50 minute film is the official making of and we get just that, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the recording sessions that went into his latest body of work.

2015-11-01 | en

Kartellen - Light up the Shadows

The Hip hop group Kartellen is one of Sweden's most controversial bands. Here, the members present their chaotic history of musical success, substance abuse, crime and political controversy.

2016-02-27 | sv

Asia Rising: The Next Generation of Hip-Hop

With the help of record label 88rising, we look through the eyes six different artist from six different backgrounds, all within Asia, as they share their thoughts on the recent rise of hip-hop throughout the region.

2019-03-29 | en

Don't Call It Road Rap - A Noisey Film

After 'Skepta: Top Boy' and 'Noisey Blackpool' comes our latest UK documentary - Don’t Call It Road Rap hosted by legend of UK music, Mike Skinner. 'Don’t Call It Road Rap' was filmed around London over a year, investigating the explosion of UK rap and follows some of the most important MCs as they try to focus on music and keep their lives on a positive track. The film features the likes of Section Boyz, C Biz, 67, Corleone, Potter Payper and Skore Beezy.

2017-06-15 | en

De La Soul Is Not Dead: The Documentary

De La Soul Is Not Dead is an ode to the act’s iconic 1991 studio album De La Soul Is Dead. The film documents the Long Island group’s rise to prominence and subsequent rise through the ranks of rap. Centered on De La Soul’s first four projects, De La Soul Is Not Dead is a study of the critically-acclaimed group’s most productive, significant period of creation.

2016-09-09 | en

Hustle & Flow

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

2005-07-22 | en

Straight Outta Compton

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

2015-08-11 | en

Life According to Moskri

The late controversial hip-hopper, the founder of Prti Bee Gee rap group, Davor Bobic Moskri, suddenly returns to the world of the living. He's allowed to return as a 10 year old child, with a goal to win a ticket to paradise, by showing his followers from underground where the motto Hit the pot, win a jackpot leads.

2017-06-03 | sr

Honey

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.

2003-12-05 | en

The Writing on the Wall

"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

1986-12-11 | en

Prinzessinnenbad

A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The trio have known each other since Kindergarten and have plenty in common. The three 15-year-olds are the best of friends; they are spending the summer at Prinzenbad, a large open-air swimming pool at the heart of the district where they live. They're feeling pretty grown up, and are convinced they've now left their childhood behind.

2007-05-31 | de

Straight from the Projects: Rappers That Live the Lyrics - Brownsville, Brooklyn

Rap group M.O.P. gives a tour through Brownsville in Brooklyn to show where they grew up, and what inspires their music.

2003-03-25 | en

Global Enlightenment: Part 1

The shape-shifting and enigmatic hip hop artist Kool Keith has managed to surprise, shock, and enrage fans and detractors alike with virtually every album he has released. His many personas include Dr. Octagon, under which he released 1996's Dr. Octagonecologyst, a futuristic masterpiece that flouted traditional hip hop mores in favor of intriguingly disruptive, warped rhymes. He is also the Black Elvis, Dr. Doom, Mr. Gerbik, and Rhythm X, and is formerly of the Bronx group the Ultramagnetic MCs, with whom he first established himself as a rapper that pushes the envelope and is not afraid to be critical of the system within which he operates. This DVD release features multiple interviews with the artist, as well as live concert footage. Keith takes his audiences on a tour of Manhattan and the Bronx. Keith also explains why he loves seltzer water.

2005-06-21 | en

Here We Come

The story of hip hip behind the iron curtain.

2006-11-01 | en