movies/tv shows every hip hop fan needs to see?

[Trip Dee]

Kids
Rappin'
Idlewild
Last Holiday
Cadillac Records
This Christmas (just to see david banner for 5 seconds)
Soul Men
Idlewild
Bamboozled
Ali
ATL
Kingdom Come
Brown Sugar
Disappearing Acts
Deliver Us from Eva
Lackawanna Blues
Never Die Alone
Waist Deep
Bones
Dangerous Ground
 Half Past Dead
Anaconda
Survival of the Illest
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club
Fear of a Black Hat
Robin Harris' Bebe's Kids
Posse
The Last Dragon
Sunset Park
 Roll Bounce
Who's the Man
 Class Act
The Happening
 The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Semi-Pro
Eddie Murphy: delerious
Wild Wild West
Strapped
Life

shall we check it twice? 

[white Boy]

He Got Game and every other Spike Lee movie (even though im not a huge fan)

[ToOoOoN!!!]

taxi driver!

[Jaydc]

Squirt Showers 6

[cStyle]

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

Here are my favorite hip-hop related movies...

1. Jason's Lyric- Kind of like an early 90's hip-hop perspective on Romeo and Juliet.  My favorite movie.

2. Style Wars-  A spectacular documentary that was on PBS back in 1982, the year I was born.  It really documents an era in hip-hop history that I am so sad that I missed.  It's primary focus is on graffiti but it touches upon all the 4 elements of hip-hop culture, and documents at it when the culture was at it's most vibrant.  I think that rap artists were at their best in the mid 90's, but the culture as a whole was at it's best during this era.  MUST SEE

3. The Show-  Great clips of the Dogg Pound and Snoop in their prime, along with Warren G when he was blowing up, and great coverage of our favorite East Coast artists such as Wu-Tang and Biggie; it really put the 90's era into perspective as far as it's relationship with the pioneers and the Ol' School.

4.  Menace to Society-  Documents the culture from which West Coast gangsta rap thrived in.  The good and the bad aspects of it.

5.  Rhyme and Reason-  Very much similar to The Show.  Kind of like a Diet version of The Show

6.  Wildstyle-  Fab 5 Freddy is the man when it comes to hip-hop, he's really one of the greatest legends and pioneers in my opinion.  From his work in this movie to his work on YoMTVRaps, his style and charisma represents what hip-hop is all about.  He was a graffiti artist coming up, and this movie starts with graffiti but touches beautifully on all the elements of hip-hop culture.  Great movie.


There's many other movies that are essential for serious hip-hop fans to see, like QD3's documentaries such as Freshest Kids or Art of Rhyming, or the 2pac documentaries, some stuff I haven't seen yet like "Scratch" I want to see, Warriors is an important movie to see... so many great documentaries out there, eventually I will see them all.  For some reason I didn't really like Beat Street or Who's the Man, don't know why because they represent a great era in hip-hop history, don't understand why I don't like those two movies, but still a MUST SEE.  For fun it's cool to watch Master P's I'm Bout It, horrible acting, but that's part of what makes it great is that it is so stripped down to it's the bare bones.

[illuminutty]

WOW...so Scarface or Menace to Society are for Hip Hop fans....REALLY....

Thought Hip Hop was all about Unity Peace and all that......

What about

Wild Style-
Rhyme and Reason-
The Show-
Beat Street
Scratch....

I prefeer these Movies HIP HOP..........

[K.Dub]

Haha, so everybody who's into Hip-Hop needs to see all these movies?

[Okka]

Haha, so everybody who's into Hip-Hop needs to see all these movies?

Yeah, that's what i was sayin'. I understand what the thread starter means though. Some people just listed some movies that have some rapper in them

[Teddy Roosevelt]

The thread doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Hip-hop doesn't directly translate into films. Wykid said "its a thread about movies that a hip hop fan might enjoy ie violence, gritty, drugs etc. " but what about people who don't like gangster rap? Maybe their into alternative rap or even Christian hip hop. People posting movies like Donnie Brasco (which is an awesome movie) or American Gangster that have nothing to do with hip-hop just doesn't make sense.

Infinite is the only one to post a list of films actually related to hip-hop.

[K.Dub]

Haha, so everybody who's into Hip-Hop needs to see all these movies?

Yeah, that's what i was sayin'. I understand what the thread starter means though. Some people just listed some movies that have some rapper in them

Like Anaconda lol.

[The Predator]

[Chad Vader]

I can't believe you forgot;


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[rayallen0]

Notorious to add on after a few months haha

[LONDON!!]

scarface
goodfellas
menace to society
belly
shottas
friday
cheech & chong movies
coming to america
casino
juice
jfk
once upon a time in america
state of grace
house part 1 & 2
malcolm x
players club
godfather 1 & 2
blow
training day(and i'm not even into fed movies like that, but this movie is an acception to the rule, denzel merks it, it was refreshing to see denzel play a badman for a change at the time)
american gangster(i don't like promoting snitches either, no i don't, but technically its a good movie)
hoodlum
mobsters
paid in full
killer
hard boiled
fist of the northstar
akira
carlito's way

tv shows
the wire
soprano's
dave chappelle show
the first series of everybody hates chris
witness to the mob(tv movie)
the real mckoy(uk comedy sketch show from back in the day)