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Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap (NEW Movie!)

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This June, one of the greatest hip hop movies in recent years is coming out. Directed by west-coast legend Ice-T, “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap” is a movie detailing the rise of hip hop. I, personally am hoping to get in on this movie, as should you. Above in the poster, you can see all of the rappers featured in the movie. Below, you can catch the official blurb on the movie straight from AftermathMusic.com, then, after the bump, you can watch the four trailers to the movie. Be sure to see it on June 15th!

“As he prepares for the June 15 theatrical opening of his documentary “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap,” Ice-T promises that the campaign “won’t end with this film.”

“We’ve got a DVD. We have a television show. We have a soundtrack album,” the rapper told Billboard.com before a suburban Detroit screening of the film, which was attended by fellow MCs Chuck D of Public Enemy (who Ice-T had joined on stage the previous night at the Movement Electronic Music Festival), D-12’s Denaun Porter and Trick Trick. “I’ve got 52 (MCs) in this movie, and I have at least an hour to an hour and a half of in-depth interviews. I’ve got, like, two hours with KRS-One. So the film will just be the first embodiment of ‘The Art of Rap,’ but I don’t want to promote our secondary plans and take away from the film. I want people to see it on the big screen, hear it with the big speakers and take that ride.”

Ice-T spent two years working on “Something From Nothing,” chatting with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kanye West, Grandmaster Melle Mel and scores of others about the actual crafts of rapping, rhyming, composing and sound generation. “In my 25 years of rapping, no one ever asked me how I did it,” explained Ice-T, who licensed more than 400 songs for the film and commissioned Smooth Hustla to compose the original track “109 MCs.” “People would always be more concerned with the beefs, the cars, the girls, the celebrity side of it, but not how it’s done. To me that meant people thought you just s*** it out. There’s no creative process. There’s nothing to it… But some of these cats, it’s like very intricate wordplay, and they have their own ways to do it. I tried to get people who spoke on all the different styles of rap — the underground battle rappers or the conscious rappers. There’s lots of different styles.”

– from Billboard

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Stone is a hip-hop enthusiast residing in NJ/PA. As an aspiring hip-hop producer, Stone studies communications and shares his passion for music by letting the world in on the wonderful world of hip-hop.