Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)
60 min
From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Like preachers and jazz solos, freestyles exist only in the moment, a modern-day incarnation of the African-American storytelling tradition. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.
- Data de estreia
- 14 de abril de 2000
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
- Música
- Darkleaf, Freestyle Fellowship, DJ Organic
Elenco
- Chali 2na como Self
- Planet Asia como Self
- Bahamadia como Self
- Yasiin Bey como Self
- Akim Funk Buddah como Self
- Eluard Burt como Self
- Jonathan Sway Calloway como Self
- Myo Campbell como Self
- Cut Chemist como Self
Equipe
- Muhammad Ali · Imagens de arquivo
- Kevin Fitzgerald · Diretor(a)
- Paul Devlin · Produtor(a)
- Henry Alex Rubin · Produtor(a)
- Darkleaf · Compositor(a)
- Freestyle Fellowship · Compositor(a)
- DJ Organic · Compositor(a)
- Omid Walizadeh · Compositor(a)
- Todd Hickey · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Daniel Kozman · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Paul Devlin · Editor(a)
- Rachel Raimist · Editor(a)
- Isaac Solotaroff · Editor(a)