RAP DREAMS -THE DOCUMENTARY

PRODUCER / EDITOR: 2006

A FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY BY MASTAMIND PRODUCTIONS AND GRIJALVA FILMWORKS. "Forget Hustle and Flow, - this is the real deal: real-life youngsters hoping to improve their lot by turning to hip-hop, and for the most part they aren't as sexy as Terrance Howard. "

"Despite the on the fly, the cheap production values, there's an energy and vitality here that many pricier docs dont have."


-SF WEEKLY


"Epps frames their creative and strike-it-rich hopes within the vivid skepticism of Kelley's grandfather, who opens the movie by claiming a career in rap is a chase after fool's gold."

-SF BAY GUARDIAN

"Epps' latest film makes a solid case for staying as far as possible from corporate giants and completing art on your own terms. If we learn nothing else from "Rap Dreams," it's that the CD being sold from some guy's trunk has a lot more reality and a lot more soul than whatever the major labels are churning out."


"Most serious fans of rap music eventually turn their interest to local artists. Why buy albums made by guys who are talking about stuff that happened in Los Angeles and New York, when there are dozens of equally capable rappers in your own backyard?"

- SF CHRONICLE

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• rap
• dreams
• documentary
• san
• francisco
• kevin
• epps
• mistah
• fab
• underground
• hunters
• point
• roberto
• grijava
• filmmaker
• reel

[maria2649]

SPELLBYNDAZ STILL CHASE THEIR DREAM

[ImperialPimp]

You're right, actually his film "Straight Outta Hunters Point" changed my life.

Kevin Epps has extremely good points to make...

[joocey]

Epps is a great documentarian...one of the best.

[totacs]

i think that you all right! evrybady have some rap and hope

[sictripp66]

Every new rapper wants to be Pac

[ccotan]

makeitorbreakit - the rap dream

MC $tyles - WESTSIDE 101

[BBHCrew]

Where can I BUY this video?

[EatUrFlesh]

i give the vid a 10

[Duggla]

great video.