A year in the life of CEO, NAACP ambassador, Duke University professor, husband, father, son and Grammy Award winning producer 9th Wonder. The film follows one of soul music’s most dynamic figures from his childhood home to late nights in the studio and everywhere in between.
Featuring: Drake, DJ Premier, DJ Green Lantern, J. Cole, Murs, Phonte, Sha Money XL, Young Guru, The Alchemist & more. Coming soon! Click the link to find out how to bring The Wonder Year to your town. thewonderyear.l-r-g.com
Miss Invincible unleashed the tailer to a sequel to one of my favorite documentaries of last year, "The Revival". "The Revival : SXSW" brings the all female MC movement to one of the biggest music festivals of the US in an effort to show that there are still plenty of good female wordsmiths left.
Featuring interviews with Immortal Technique, Chuck D, Treach, Grandmaster Caz, Lord Jamar, Kool Keith, Raekwon, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Premier, Trigger & Smooth, Dana Dane, Lord Finesse and Diabolique Diabolic.
The Art Of Rap is set to be out to all film festivals in September 2011.
To honor the 5th anniversary of his passing, B.Kyle releases the 40-minute documentary to reflect on the legacy Dilla has left behind. Watch as some of Dilla's closest peers which include, House Shoes, ?uestlove, Phat Kat, Pete Rock, etc. speak on the many reasons why DIlla is the greatest to ever touch an MPC 3000.
Gifted Films and Brian Atkins present J Dilla: Still Shining, a film that documents the musical legacy and personality of J Dilla. The film is scheduled for February 7th, 2011 availability.
Short Stones Throw documentary from french filmmaker; Sébastien Bauer featuring James Reitano, Dave Cooley, Om'Mas Keith from Sa-Ra, Frosty from Dublab, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dâm Funk and Mayer Hawthorne.
Here's the trailer to the much anticipated Tribe Called Quest documentary "Beats Rhymes and Life" produced by Nas and directed by Actor/Director/Producer Mike Rapaport. The Documentary features rarely heard stories told by The Roots, Nas, Mos Def, the Jungle Brothers, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Kanye West, Pharrell and Monie Love, all giving input on the career of ATCQ. Madlib is composing an original score and Peanut Butter Wolf is to supervise all music for the film. The release will compete with 15 other projects for a prize of best domestic documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival running January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Story of A Tribe Called Quest is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of music’s most influential and groundbreaking pioneers in hip hop. The story is told by the members themselves as they reunite after two years during the 2008 Rock the Bells tour to deliver sold out performances . On the tour they re-discover that their own personal differences may overpower their love for the group, countless, hard-core fans, and its ability to survive the pressures of fame, the record industry, and simply pursuing other interests in life. Rapaport, himself a hard core Tribe fan from the first album, panics when Q-Tip tells him “ this could be the last show” after mounting tension erupted at the event in San Francisco. Thus, begins a journey to go back and appreciate the huge contributions made by Tribe to the “whole structure of hip hop” as stated by Amir from the Roots, one of the many artists in the film influenced by Tribe’s unique sampling and layering of obscure jazz loops mixed with hip hop beats, as well as their playful but clever lyrics. Chronicles told of songs like “Scenario” and “Check the Rhyme” paint a vivid picture of what it was like coming up in Queens as young folks living and breathing hip hop in the early nineties.
Bruce Lee, the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, would have been 70 years old today. More than just a biography, this film explores Bruce Lee's global impact to see how he has influenced all areas of popular culture including fitness, cinema, music, sport, dance, video games and philosophy. A journey across the United States, Asia and Europe, takes Shannon Lee on a trip back to her father's roots in Hong Kong and China. With unique access to the family's photographic archive, home movies and all material owned by the Bruce Lee Foundation
KRS-ONE: Hip Hop Beyond Entertainment Recorded Live at Hip Hop 101 Temple University April 2004 A Video by Alex Goldblum Special Thanks to the Philosopher of Hip Hop, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody. www.templeofhiphop.org
Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American MC known by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Peep the documentary on the mind of ODB. Rest In Power
Boonie Mayfield shares some tips on drum programming; from quantizing, not quantizing, swing, ghost notes etc. This is an EXCELLENT tutorial for anyone looking to learn some production tips. I definitely learned a lot in just 20 minutes. Boonie does a great job at breaking things down so that anyone can understand them and while also giving some golden production tips! definitely a great watch in my book!
Big L Documentary Trailer (First Draft) - 'Street Struck: The Big L Story.'
Dangerzone Films has been producing a documentary film that chronicles the life of late Harlem rapper Lamont "Big L" Coleman. It will include interviews with family members, friends and musical collaborators including Fat Joe and DJ Premier.
"officially the date of release will be May 2010, Im going to put that date on the 2nd trailer when its done" - Jewlz The Director
This is all from Soobax (then Intellectual), from information he got straight from the director:
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The documentary is tentatively titled Street Struck: The Big L Story and is gonna be put out by 2056 Media/Filmwerkz. It’s being organized by Jewlz (the director), Pooch aka Pucci aka Snaggdadon aka Snaggapuss from Doo Wop’s Bounce Squad (childhood friend of Big L/Big L’s girlfriend’s brother) and Donald Phinazee (Big L’s oldest brother). It was originally announced in 2007.
As far as we know now, the DVD will contain interviews with several people known in the music industry, though no names have been announced to us yet except for one (please proceed). On top of that we will finally see previously unseen footage of Big L talking, rhyming and on stage performing.
The most anticipated footage right now is unseen footage of two of hip hop's most notorious and super lyrical rappers to have ever blessed the microphone, Big L and fellow deceased rapper Christopher "Big Punisher" Rios, rhyming together, something the world has never seen before! On top of that they have recorded an interview with Big Punisher's widow, Liza Rios, who talks about her husband as well as Big L.
(The Big L and Big Pun footage is from the set of Fat Joe’s John Blaze video.)
As of now we know she talked about Big Punisher's plans to take Big L on tour with him. Big Pun eventually forgot to pick up Big L and right around that time he was shot and killed as we all know, leaving Punisher with an unbearable feeling of guilt.
UPDATE 17th May 2010
So far the latest on the doc is unfortunately we won’t be able to make the May 30th release date that I was so looking forward to making, due to me deciding to switch editors on the project and also due to us trying to make this Dame Dash interview happen, the Dame thing is getting closer to going down (BigLOnliners keep your fingers crossed for us…), word, other than that, all is looking very well, we’ve gotten some interviews, just last week we sat down with Mike Boogie who appeared on L’s first album, he was on 8 Iz Enuff, we also touched base with a young lady who had been dealing with Bloodshed of C.O.T.C. fame, the young lady had a child for Bloodshed and she has agreed to give us an interview as well. So as I stated, things are looking good and moving along so please tell the whole BigLOnline family I’m really sorry to upset the plans by not releasing Street Struck on the thirtieth but please bear with me. I’ve been blood, sweat and tearing with this project for a lil’ over twelve years so I want it to be the best project that I’m physically able to make. So once we’re able to arrange a newer date, as always, the family at BigLOnline will be the absolute first to know, thank y’all so much for all the endless support and concern.
Peace yours truly,
Jewlz The Director
UPDATE10th November 2010
Another Interview with Big Don. Talking about Big L's music, and Death.. If i understand him correctly, it seems to me that Big L could have avoided being killed.. read on.
UPDATE8th December 2010
"Man I been here bothering more an more with this documentary and I made an Executive/Friend decision, that were gonna drop the doc in May 2011. That month is Lamonts Birthday, an as I stated before: I never wanted to really Focus on his death, that's why I'm so against a February release. So my final opinion is May, 2011."
First of all, everyone interested in getting exclusive updates on the documentary and pre-order information needs to send an email to bigldirect@gmail.com. In your email simply ask to be added to the Direct To Fans Mail List.
the latest Direct To Fans email update: Good Day to all our Great Big L Supporters! I
hope this second Bigldirect update finds you and all your loved ones in
good health. I know everyone is waiting with baited breath on the
latest information updates in regards to Street Struck The Big L Story
Documentary. The progression of the documentary is coming along very
well and we're loving the way its looking and feeling and we're truly
looking forward to sharing it with all of the dedicated Supporters thats
always and continue to show Love and Support for the Projects that
help to prolong the Legacy of Lamont "Big L" Coleman - Phinazee.
As of now the documentary has a few more tweaks to be done but as of
now its looking like we"ll be releasing the documentary in the early
portion of 2016 as opposed to September.
Before the documentary
drops in 2016, we'll be releasing a very rare song that was recorded by
Big L and Produced by Dj Rob Dinero. The title of this song is
tentatively entitled "PART OF THE GAME". We hope that this UNRELEASED
song garners your Support once we begin to promote it and place it on
Itunes and all of the other digital music outlets which we will mention
within the promotion that will come shortly. BIG L DIRECT
UPDATE 2016
Nov 22, 2015 11:47 pm
New email update! It sounds like they're shooting the new L video this week:
Dear Friends, Fans and Family, Dangerzone
Filmz & The Phinazee Family would like to personally thank all of
the Supporters who've continued to stand by us and helped keep the
legacy of Lamont "Big L" Coleman alive and well. We understand that many
of you may've thought that this project would never happen due to
multiple delays and a lack of updates on our end. We'd like to apologize
to all of the incredible supporters of Big L, we'll be providing
regular updates to keep everyone on our Big L Direct list informed. As
of now we have strengthened our team of people who will be very
proactive towards keeping the public abreast of all the occurrences and
happenings regarding the project and all items surrounding it. At the
moment Dangerzone Filmz is in the process of conducting a casting call
to find 2 Beautiful women as leading roles in the Big L music video.
This music video will be filmed for an unreleased Big L song titled
"Part of the Game". This song was produced and recorded by DJ Rob
Dinero, a longtime friend and acquaintance whom worked with Big L around the time he took a brief hiatus from being in public eye. DJ
Rob Dinero & Big L recorded quite a bit of music together. Much of
that recorded material found its way onto the Big Picture album, which
was Certified Gold thanks to Supporters like yourself. The single "Part
of the Game" has only one featured artist, a musical prodigy named
Nathaniel. We decided to release this song and video which will be a
part of the "Street Struck - The Big L Story Soundtrack &
Documentary. This video will be Directed by Jewlz the Director & Jay
Onez of Money Shot Filmz. This video will be filmed during the month of
November and with our Big L Direct Service and all our great Big L
Social media pages we will continue to send updates. If you have any
questions, please feel free to email us and we'll do our best to respond
to everybody in a very timely manner. Thank you very kindly. Yours truly, Dangerzone Filmz & The Phinazee Family
In the cold harsh winter of 2002 UK producer Mark B was approached by BBC's Radio One team do a short documentary based around the art & knowledge of record collecting from a Hiphop perspective. Already aware of the global coverage & support of Radio One with the success of the Mark B & Blade Unknown LP (2000) he jumped at the opportunity to take a break from the studio & touring to further his skills & learn the art of producing a radio documentary.
After a few shorts meetings with their team Mark bounced a few ideas off of them & took the challenge one step further by expanding an already well covered theme to the heart of New York City to investigate the story behind one of Hiphop's most recognizable & biggest ever hits both on the streets, radio & MTV audiences alike. No matter what music you listen to underground or commercial, rock pop, house techno or reggae it’s more than likely you will know the song in question but it's very doubtful you will actually know the true story behind this song or its original source.
Straight from the rotten apple Mark B exposes the dirty dealings of break trading, record producing, record diggin’ & the origins of an LP sold to over 20 different producers before falling into the hands of Dr Dre & Melman.
With the help & interviews from the legendary DJ Marley Marl, VIC, Dilated Peoples, Bubba Sparxxx, DJ Greenpeace, David Holmes, Tommy Koi of Mr Bongo Records, Andrew Mason of Wax Poetics & Jared from The Sound Library Record Store this is one documentary you don't want to miss.
This is strictly for promotional purposes only & is a free download. This download will only be available for 1 week. Please spread the word if you like it.
STILL UNDERGROUND featuring the White Rabbit, Vibe Bar, Don’t Flop, Cruger, Si Hayes, Jehst, Mystro, Taskforce, Madness, Dirtbag Dan, Prov erbs, Sleaze, Mikill Pane, Joker Starr, Capital R.
The event features prominent hip-hop bloggers in a dynamic conversation about how artists are gaining traction online, the impact of technology on music promotion and how bloggers and artists can raise awareness about important issues in the hip-hop community and beyond.
The discussion features prominent hip-hop bloggers such as Meka Udoh (2 Dope Boyz), Dallas Penn (Dallas Penn & the Internets Celebrities), Jason Reynolds (OkayPlayer), Frank William Miller Junior (FWMJ of rappersiknow.com) and Chris Rabb (Afro-Netizen) talking about why they do what they do and what they’re looking for to create compelling content. These dedicated champions of hip-hop will address questions like: “How do I get attention for my project?” “What should I be thinking about in terms of web presence?” “What kinds technologies exist to help me do all this?”
Some of the topics they discuss on this Future of Music Coalition and Words Beats panel was:
- How an artist can succeed in a digital environment - The Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Reading vs. Visuals - Posting content from a blogger perspective - Labels vs. Blogs (aka Cease & Desist letters)
