CB4

Looking to watch CB4 (1993) online? It's a music mockumentary comedy built around Chris Rock, who co-wrote it and stars as MC Gusto. The camera pretends to chronicle the rise of rap group CB4 — short for Cell Block 4 — a name the trio invented to sell a hardcore image they never actually lived.

Gusto, Dead Mike and Stab Master Arson rap about prison and the streets while coming from comfortable homes and knowing little about the craft. Fans don't care and the records fly off shelves. Trouble starts when the real felon whose name Gusto stole walks out of jail and comes looking. Allen Payne, Phil Hartman and Chris Elliott round out the chaos.

Director Tamra Davis turned the whole thing into a sharp jab at early-'90s gangsta rap and the marketing machine behind N.W.A. If you like This Is Spinal Tap but want it pointed at hip-hop, this one lands. Stream CB4 (1993) online on iFILM.