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Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 106 minutes
Genre: Documentary, Music
Directors: Ice-T, Andy Baybutt
Casts: Eminem, Common, Grandmaster Caz, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Snoop Dogg, Redman, Yasiin Bey, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Ice-T, Doug E. Fresh, Busy Bee, Afrika Bambaataa, Bun B, Kool Boy, Joe Budden, Cashout Chris, Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, DJ Premier, Royce Da 5'9", B-Real
Ratings: 
(3 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Empire -
An extremely interesting insight, proving that rap music is an art form in its own right.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
The Art of Rap was made by a hip-hop fiend for hip-hop fiends. I fit the description, and it's difficult for me to approach the film as an outsider. But if novices can make it through the barrage of interviews with artists they don't know, they'll learn plenty about a craft still grossly misrepresented by the mass media.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch -
Ice-T delivers a love letter to hip-hop with Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
An insightful film about the creative talents that have made hip-hop an original, enduring American musical tradition.
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The New York Times -
This is a film that does sweat the technique, with at times illuminating and spirited results.
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Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)
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Information
Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 106 minutes
Genre: Documentary, Music
Directors: Ice-T, Andy Baybutt
Casts: Eminem, Common, Grandmaster Caz, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Snoop Dogg, Redman, Yasiin Bey, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Ice-T, Doug E. Fresh, Busy Bee, Afrika Bambaataa, Bun B, Kool Boy, Joe Budden, Cashout Chris, Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, DJ Premier, Royce Da 5'9", B-Real
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SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.
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Empire -
An extremely interesting insight, proving that rap music is an art form in its own right.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
The Art of Rap was made by a hip-hop fiend for hip-hop fiends. I fit the description, and it's difficult for me to approach the film as an outsider. But if novices can make it through the barrage of interviews with artists they don't know, they'll learn plenty about a craft still grossly misrepresented by the mass media.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch -
Ice-T delivers a love letter to hip-hop with Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
An insightful film about the creative talents that have made hip-hop an original, enduring American musical tradition.
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The New York Times -
This is a film that does sweat the technique, with at times illuminating and spirited results.
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SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.