Act of seminal hip-hop gets due praise in solid bio-doc.
Feature film competition of the Sundance Film Festival, USA
Michael Rapaport
PARK CITY — Sundance Film Festival short film competition of the United States — celebrates one of the seminal groups of hip-hop, beats, rhymes & life offers bio and low, recalling a time when the art form was just coming into its own. Although it may not have much of an audience beyond the band's fan base, offers enough context to serve as a primer on the clique of Native languages and should have influenced life in home-vid.
As a Director (and a fan for a long time), actor Michael rapaport begins with footage of a 2008 reunion tour before we Queens over two decades ago, where the childhood friends soon to be known as phife dawg and q-tip started rhyming in the shadow of the pioneers Run-d.m.c. local Rapaport visits deliver business-careers high school which proved to be a hotbed of talent to rap, kicking off enough straight history of emergence of tribes as a group.
Live Performance footage from the early years are spotty, but MTV Video captures the best vibe, showing the artists that have distinguished themselves with a humor easygoing dramatically contrasted with gangsta rap and--with sampling resourceful tribe of vintage jazz records--made them stars.
Extensive interviews with peers and followers make the case for heritage group. While some may feel that elevates them above movies of these acts similarly important as De La Soul and Jungle Brothers, Rapaport does its best to spread the love around.
The film is pressing slowly on interpersonal conflict that destroyed at the end of the group, using a large current interviews (including semi-neutral testimony from members of the tribe Ali shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi white) and a short clip of backstage bickering to illustrate the problems usually ego.
Packaging with a seemingly peaceful reunion 2010 in Japan, the film concludes by observing, teasingly, the group draws yet another depredated album Jive Records.
Place: Sundance Film Festival feature film competition, USA
Production company: Rival images and beats, rhymes and fights Productions, LLC
Director: Michael Rapaport
Producers: Parks of Edward Michael Rapaport, Frank Mele, Eric Matthies, Robert Benavides, Debra Koffler, ATCQ, Bob Teitel
Director of photography: Robert Benavides
Music: Madlib
Editors: Lenny Mesina, AJ Schnack
Sales: Ben Weiss, paradigm; Steven c. Beer, Greenberg Traurig law GT, LLP
No ratings, 98 minutes
