GET RICH OR TRY LYING Foul-mouthed Californian hip hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. But no-one knew the pair were really amiable Scotsmen, with fake American accents and made up identities. This documentary tells the audacious tale of how two lads from Dundee duped the record industry and nearly destroyed themselves. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded 'the rapping Proclaimers' by a scornful record industry, friends Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain reinvented themselves as Los Angeles homeboys. The lie was their golden ticket to a record deal and a dream celebrity life. A stranger-than-fiction true account of fractured friendship, the pressure of living with lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame. Truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.
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The Great Hip Hop Hoax was released in 2013 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 20 reviews, giving The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013) an average rating of 68%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 66%.
With a score of 68%, The Great Hip Hop Hoax is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2013, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2013 with similar scores include films like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, World War Z and Man of Steel.
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