Filming Hip Hop

Jay-Z and Will Smith Producing Films Together

wordlife — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:48:43 +0000

Jay-Z, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, James Lassiter, and Ken Stovitz are partnering to form a major motion film production company. The first film slated to be produced is the remake of Annie starring Willow Smith, Will and Jada’s 10 year old daughter. The film will be developed along with Sony Pictures Entertainment Willow, who is signed [...]

Will.i.am is Making Technology Moves

wordlife — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:52:06 +0000

Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am has been named Intel’s “director of creative innovation.” According to Engadget, Will.i.am will commence a “hands-on” collaboration with Intel on its development of “new technologies, music and tech advocacy.” Sound to me like maybe he will help them with some innovative ways of breaking Intel into the music side [...]

Short: Playground

wordlife — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:46:47 +0000

(contains some explicit language) Check out this short documentary Playground. The beautifully shot short, directed and photographed by Glendyn Ivin, is about poet, rapper and beater Julius Wright, aka ‘Lyrical God‘ and was filmed in Philadelphia in 2010. I found that the filmmaker was able to really hit on the essence of hip hop in [...]

Christ Inspired UK Hip Hop

wordlife — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:09:18 +0000

UK hip hop group A Yellow Man has been generating some much deserved buzz from this well put together YouTube clip. The clip, produced by PDesigns Motion, has garnered some good reviews and is gaining timely support from the unsigned group who has yet to release an album. I’m definitely looking forward to them dropping [...]

Beats, Rhymes & Life Drawing Sundance Attention

wordlife — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:28:21 +0000

Michael Rapaport’s new documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, is generating some great buzz at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Over the past weekend the film was screened before an audience of over 300 ATCQ fans. There has been some controversy surrounding the documentary. A month [...]

Too Many ‘Reality’ Shows

wordlife — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:13:55 +0000

OK, there are way too many reality shows on television today. Somebody needs to say it so I will. Well, I guess I already have, so there! Seriously, I’m tired of hearing about new reality shows coming on the boob tube, especially these ‘hybrid reality’ shows as I like to call them. You know the [...]

RZA in New Film ‘Funny People’

wordlife — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:30:33 +0000

Wu-Tang producer/emcee RZA will be co-starring in the upcoming comedy Funny People which is set to hit theaters on July 31. The film, directed by Judd Apatow, also stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann. The film is about a very successful stand up comedian (Sandler) who learns that he has an untreatable blood disorder [...]

Rhyme Animal to Devour Latino Film Festival

wordlife — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:50:04 +0000

The Tenth Anniversary of the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival (July 27-Aug 2, 2009) will be screening the independent film Rhyme Animal (directed by Phil Roc and co-written /co-produced by Aaron Schnore and Billy Fox). Rhyme Animal tells the tale of DJ Judah (Al Thompson), a Brooklyn DJ who rides the coat tails [...]

Back From a Break

wordlife — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:51:21 +0000

What’s up peeps. We are back from a a ‘brief extended’ break. Sorry for the delay in updates but it’s time to get it crackin’ again. Be sure to leave some comments and make the site as interactive as possible. This is your site too… i just operate it. Share and Enjoy:

50 Cent to the Rescue!

wordlife — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:00:12 +0000

50 saves Elmo’s life. Share and Enjoy: