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MTV has teamed up with the filmmakers behind the Jay-Z farewell documentary 'Fade to Black' to give the royal treatment to Drake. Entitled 'Drake: Better Than Good Enough,' the new hour-long feature will air June 23 at 10PM. We went over to MTV headquarters for a preview of some key scenes and it's safe to say that the effort will be of interest to fans and non-fans alike...

West Coast rap legend Ice Cube's long-awaited documentary on the Los Angeles Raiders, 'Straight Outta L.A.,' is scheduled to make its theatrical debut at the the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival this coming April. The film covers the Raiders' 1982 move from Oakland to Los Angeles, where they remained until 1995, winning their third, and last, Super Bowl, before returning to Oakland...

Acclaimed actor and hip-hop aficionado Michael Rapaport is working on a documentary on legendary Queens rap group A Tribe Called Quest. The documentary, 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest,' has been two years in the making, and features behind-the-scenes footage from throughout Tribe's 20-year history as a group. Co...

WalMart has come under attack for its inclusion of hip-hop-related films in promotional displays celebrating February's Black History Month. The retail giant chose to feature DVD titles like Ice Cube's 'The Player's Club' and 'Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel,' but rejected 'For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Patriots,' a four-hour mini-series documentary by Frank Martin which examines the sacrif

The trailer to Lil Wayne's forthcoming DVD 'The Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2' hit the net Monday (Dec. 21), giving fans a view of life through the Grammy-winning rapper's eyes. Wayne teamed with DJ Scoob Doo for the follow up to the 2008 documentary of the same name...

Producer Quincy "QD3" Jones III's controversial documentary on rapper Lil Wayne has shot to the Number One spot on the iTunes movie chart in its first week of release. The documentary, entitled 'The Carter,' follows Weezy on the road for almost a year, depicting all the predictable highs and lows: flashes of brilliance, extreme work ethic and sizzurp induced ramblings...

50 Cent is giving consumers a two-for-one deal by offering up the 'Before I Self Destruct' movie to accompany his new full-length album of the same name. The Queens-native wrote, directed and starred in the 90-minute film which will be featured in the 'Before I Self Destruct -- Deluxe Edition...

A documentary film about Wu-Tang rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is scheduled to premiere at Harlem's National Black Theatre on Tuesday, November 10. 'Dirty: One Word Can Change the World' was directed by ODB's cousin, Raison Allah. The film chronicles the life of the gifted vocalist and hip-hop icon, and features interviews with members of the Wu, Sunz of Man, Killarmy, the Black Knights and the Brookly

Brooklyn rapper Mos Def and Roc-A-Fella Records founder Damon Dash have announced that they are collaborating on a new film project. The film, a documentary about relatively unknown Detroit punk band Death, whose members were all black (not to be confused with better-known Florida metal band Death, whose members were all white), and played in the late 1970s, has already begun shooting, according

For decades, hip-hop historians have claimed that rap music was born in the Bronx and fathered by Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc, but a new documentary draws the Bronx story into question. In 'Founding Fathers,' filmmakers Ronald Lawrence and Hassan Pore make a case for "the original grandmaster," Grandmaster Flowers...