A documentary on rap music and its rise to global prominence.
Freestyle, funny but finally just too repetitive, Ice’s affectionate home-movie needed someone to structure it into a deeper documentary.
It’s likely to be fascinating if you are a hip hop fan, but almost wilfully unilluminating if you aren’t.
A very enjoyable and often fascinating movie.
An extremely interesting insight, proving that rap music is an art form in its own right.
The film is educative, entertaining, in almost all senses a blast.
Glossy.
Rapper Ice-T's documentary leaves us none the wiser, ignoring the demands of critical inquiry in favour of a long, long procession of interviews with other famous rappers and MCs.
All fascinating stuff if a little repetitive and rambling but definitely one for fans.
What they don't talk about, on Ice-T's specific instructions, are the moral, social and psychological aspects of the art, and there's little on how rap relates to other forms of black music such as jazz, gospel or the blues.
It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood
General release. Check local listings for show times.