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G-Unit graces the cover of XXL's October/November issue, and along with the cover story in the print edition comes a two-part roundtable on rap's ultimate crew. Earlier this week we brought you part one of the roundtable doc featuring 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and newest member Kidd Kidd, and today comes the second installment in the series. ...

Nas' Time Is Illmatic documentary film is set for a nationwide big screen release for one night only on Oct. 2, and today Hennessy dropped an exclusive four-minute trailer focusing on the making of the film. The doc premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival ahead of the 20th anniversary of Esco's iconic debut this past April, and Hennessy sat down with producer Erik Parker and director One9 to get th

"You haven't been to Miami. You've been to South Beach, but you've never been to Miami." Trick Daddy delivers those opening words at the beginning of WorldStarHipHop's new documentary, The Field: Miami, the second in its new documentary series examining the cross section between inner city violence and hip-hop. Fol...

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One of the most brazen and well-known urban dirt bike groups in the U.S. is located in Baltimore, MD, and they go by the name 12 O'Clock Boys. The dirt bike packs gather throughout the inner city of Baltimore—primarily at Druid Hill Park on Sunday afternoons—flooding the streets on loud, swift motorbikes and four-wheelers with a need for high speed through moving traffic. Although r...

Just a few weeks ago, World Star Hip-Hop released a documentary directed by Mandon Lovett and focused on young upcoming rappers battle with the mean streets of Chiraq. Lil Durk, King L, Young Chop, Lil Mouse, Lil Herb, Lil Bibby and Lawless Inc...

The Ol' Dirty Bastard Documentary screening is unraveling into a multilayered issue that's becoming a head-scratcher to follow. The screening of the film, titled Dirty: Platinum Edition, was supposed to take place last Friday night (November 15) at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music on what would have been Ol' Dirty Bastard's 45th birthday. What it ended up t...

The story behind the aborted Ol' Dirty Bastard documentary that was supposed to be screened Friday night (November 15) at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music is devolving into a game of finger-pointing, with the owner of the NuHo Film Festival—the organization responsible for promoting and putting on the event—lambasting ODB's estate for what he calls "plain and simple greed." The ev... Read M

The birthday of the late, great, Ol'Dirty Bastard is coming up, and his fans may have another reason to celebrate it this year. Zu Films, a documentary-making company based in Brooklyn, has released a trailer for a new documentary on ODB, titled Dirty Platinum Edition...

Last year, at Jay Z's inaugural Made In America festival in Philadelphia, many were treated to the fairly odd site of Jay, Beyoncé—and filmmaker Ron Howard, know for many movies, but most recently for his role as the narrator for television's Arrested Development. Howard was on ha...

Last week, Detroit rapper Danny Brown released 12.12.08, a documentary from 2009 that chronicled his steady hustle in the D's hip-hop scene. While the film felt slightly dated, it certainly captured a moment for Danny, back when he still had braids and a generally different rap style, a far cry from his latest hipster-friendly days as an artist signed to Fool's Gold. Dan...