Ice-T "The Art of Rap" Film - In AMC Theaters June 15!

[Amaranthine]

Nas freestyle + interview clip: http://www.complex.com/music/2012/06/vi ... -freestyle

Kanye interview clip: http://www.complex.com/music/2012/06/vi ... ed-fantasy

[Amaranthine]

Nas freestyle clip vs Em freestyle clip. Go.

[Amaranthine]

Art of Rap will be released in the UK July 19, and the soundtrack will be out June 12.

[Amaranthine]

Art of Rap will be released in the UK July 19, and the soundtrack will be out June 12.

I hope this means that there will be some freestyles, maybe over beats on it. Doubt it though.

It's just this:

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)

Tracklist
Ice – T - Freestyle (Live Acapella)
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
RUN-DMC - Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1)
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
KRS One - Freestyle (Live Acapella)
Big Daddy Kane - Raw
Nas - The World Is Yours
Gang Starr - Full Clip
Immortal Technique - New Jack Hustler (Live Acapella)
Wu-Tang Clan - As High As Wu-Tang Get
Das EFX - Real Hip-Hop
Melle Mel - Freestyle (Live Acapella)
Schoolly D - P.S.K. 'What Does It Mean'?
Ultramagnetic MC’s - Ego Trippin'
Ras Kass - Bentleys & Bitches (Live Acapella)
Mantronix - King Of The Beats
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Don't Stop... Planet Rock
Lord Jamar - The Kid Magic (Live Acapella)
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing (Club Mix)
MC Lyte - Cold Rock A Party
Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think...Just Like That
Grandmaster Caz - The Art of Rap (Live Acapella)

Pretty old school.

[Amaranthine]

Back in March, footage of an inane debate between two Florida state representatives went quasi-viral. In the video clip, Democrat Alan B. Williams expresses his support for a bill that would refine Florida's evidence code by quoting Jay-Z's "99 Problems": "I know my rights and you're gonna need a warrant for that / Aren't you sharp as a tack? / You some kind of lawyer or something?" Spoiling for a fight, Republican Dean Cannon, who opposed the bill, proceeds to misquote the lyrics as, "You should try for a lawyer or something." Then, he inexplicably lectures Williams: "It's an unspoken rule: If you're going to invoke Jay-Z, you must get the lyrics correct."

Gangsta-rap pioneer Ice-T and 2 Live Crew frontman Luther "Luke" Campbell hopefully got at least a chuckle out of this exchange. Twenty-plus years after President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle denounced "Cop Killer," by Ice's rap-rock project Body Count, and a Florida District Court judge ruled 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be "obscene," elected officials are now quoting rap lyrics for authenticity points. But meanwhile, hip-hop's most vilified free-speech martyrs are recasting the genre's contested history in their own image: Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, a documentary helmed by Ice-T, and Jillian Mayer's experimental short, Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, starring Campbell, both premiered at Sundance this year.

Something From Nothing features everybody from the Cold Crush Brothers' Grandmaster Caz to Common, hanging out and discussing the intricacies of their craft. Ice-T's OG status gives him the access that similarly styled "art of rapping," straight-to-DVD docs could never obtain. And Rakim's explanation of how he goes about writing his airtight raps…he starts with 16 dots on a piece of paper, which he intently toys with until he finds the perfect word…is fascinating. Even more so, since Ice himself is as baffled as we are by the God MC's almost mystical approach.

Particularly touching moments include Kanye West, grinning and unguarded, laughing it up as he tells the story of losing his first rap battle in middle school (the line that beat him: "Yo, my name is Chris / Let me tell you one thing…you smell like piss"), and Eminem solemnly explaining the therapeutic role that rapping played in his recovery from drug addiction. The documentary's tone is earnest, even provincial, and it suggests that if someone were to one day do the ten-hour history of hip-hop in the style of Ken Burns' Jazz, it could very well be Ice-T.

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[Amaranthine]

Dr. Dre interview clip.

[Amaranthine]

It's not scheduled to play in any of my local theaters.

[Trimss]

^ Well done.

[Trimss]

There's almost no new school rapper. If not any. I like that.

[Amaranthine]

:'( It's not scheduled to play in any of my local theaters.

What the fuck's going on, it isn't even playing in Canada either. We should change the title...

It could still be playing, some of the theaters don't add movies until they actually open. But yeah, this is lame. They're advertising it like it's going to play everywhere.

[Amaranthine]

Apparently this is Ice's freestyle. I couldn't tell you if it really is because I can never get xlusiveszone to work, but Ice retweeted it, so I assume it's real. Anywho, check it out for me.

[ShadysDisciple]

- Also...I don't think this movie is playing in Canada................

Yeah I don't think it is. I checked like every theater website within my city, my county, and the entire GTA and could find nothing.

[JamaicanPattlez]

- Also...I don't think this movie is playing in Canada................

Yeah I don't think it is. I checked like every theater website within my city, my county, and the entire GTA and could find nothing.

I asked on the facebook page when they're going to announce a Canada release date, and they said for me to stay tuned to their facebook page for an international release date.

[ShadysDisciple]

I asked on the facebook page when they're going to announce a Canada release date, and they said for me to stay tuned to their facebook page for an international release date.

Ok good. I'd be pissed if it wasn't playing in Canada.

[flyingmonkey10]

I asked on the facebook page when they're going to announce a Canada release date, and they said for me to stay tuned to their facebook page for an international release date.

Ok good. I'd be pissed if it wasn't playing in Canada.

oh sweet, hope they announce it soon

i'm guessing maybe it'll only play at amcs?