Review of Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) by Michael Q — 23 Oct 2012
The Art of Rap is basically a documentary about Ice-T talking to veteran MC's about writing lyrics, just talking and spitting rhymes. And it's incredibly boring, like a long mandatory lecture about music history, from the viewpoint of the people who were actually making history happen, but they overemphasize every single detail about the creative process, their own importance, and constantly keep kissing each other's asses.
The format is like this: Ice-T talks about himself and the omnipotent power of Hip Hop, about himself some more, then we see a couple of urban landscapes, Ice-T walking in slow motion across some city, then Ice-T talks to a rapper, he calls the rapper the greatest at something and the innovator of something else, the rapper agrees, usually followed by an extra long verse; repeat cycle.
Most protagonists seem to be totally out of touch with reality, Ice-T included, and the weirdest part of this documentary are Eminem's eyes. If you follow modern Hip Hop, not the mainstream/singles charts/MTV heavy rotation shit, but if you're in the know about today's leaders and innovators, then don't watch this.
This review of Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) was written by Michael Q on 23 Oct 2012.
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap has generally received positive reviews.
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