Review of Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) by Horace H — 16 Jun 2012

This is an incredibly boring documentary unless you enjoy watching Ice-T walk about New York for 45 minutes wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses! So much attention is focused on artists who are no longer relevant.

I'm all for paying homage to the old school, but this belongs in the "hip hop historian" archives on Netflix - not in my local theater where I paying $10 bucks to see it. I also can't believe that a movie about rap doesn't feature any music.

This might as well be a movie about people reading poems out loud. Give me a break! I'm tired of old rappers giving young rappers grief about the direction they are taking the industry in. Get over it and help to promote the future of the industry - highlight unhyped artists who demonstrate the grind, who demonstrate the hunger (i.

E., Big Krit, Killer Mike, Trae the Truth) and stop spending so much time on past relics. The days of Melly Mel, Slick Rick, and Dana Dane are behind us. They have moved on, why can't Ice-T? I am not a hater, I just think it's time for old artists to start supporting/mentoring artists and stop spending so much time sucking their own d!@ks! You were famous once, but instead of helping future generations of artists become famous, you choose to spend your time celebrating the golden years of other old artists.

That doesn't serve any purpose.