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Los Angeles - 1991, the town is ruled by gangs. A young man from Compton wants to produce his label and discredit Dr Dre. A drug baron in prison wants to legalize his business. Their encounter will change the face of hip-hop and from it will arise the most notorious rap label ...

NYC - 2000. 50 cent is shot 9 times... but still he survives. Behind this murder attempt, a drug lord from Queens who makes up to $200,000 a day. Discover the story of a powerful man whose influence went way beyond his neighborhood...

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Les années 80.

Le hip hop commence à voir le jour.

La cocaïne, elle, est déjà partout. Et bientôt, le crack va faire une entrée
fracassante dans la vie des ghettos.

Cette consommation sans précédent va permettre à quelques dealers de devenir
...

À la fin des années 70, à l’heure où le disco et la funk résonnent à travers le monde, un nouveau mouvement apparaît, tout d’abord dans les ghettos noirs new-yorkais : c’est le mouvement hip-hop. En 1979, un hit mondial va à lui seul définir les bases du rap. Rapper’s Delight, de ...  Show more

By the late 90s, rap was the world’s pop music. The money was flowing, creating hip-hop moguls and welcoming in the Bling Era. 

But as hip-hop went mainstream and gained commercial success, the rap music topping the charts had begun to largely shed its political messagin ...

In Hit Parade’s “Def Jams Edition,” we told you about rap’s first wave in the ’80s. But in this sequel (don’t believe the hype!) we enter the ’90s with still no No. 1 rap hits on the Hot 100—even though the music was starting to dominate both streets and stores: from conscious ra ...  Show more