RSomething from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Hip Hop didn't invent anything. Hip Hop reinvented everything
Synopsis
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ice-T and Andy Baybutt. Ice-T drives the 106-minute film as both director and interviewer, pushing past the mythology to examine how rap actually gets made.
He travels across the United States and sits with the people who laid the genre's foundation: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Afrika Bambaataa, KRS-One, Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Premier, and Grandmaster Caz, among others. Each of them performs on camera, demonstrating their craft — flow, delivery, the mechanics of a bar — rather than simply describing it.
Even for a viewer with no investment in hip-hop, watching that level of skill broken down in real time is worth the runtime. Stream Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) online on iFILM.
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