Michael Rapaport is an actor who has always been just a hair's breadth away from being unwatchable. Not that he's a bad actor per se, but I hated how he always tried so hard to make us believe just how hip hop he was. How much of a B-Boy he was. If you ever saw the underrated(even by me) 1992 film, Zebrahead
, Rapaport wasn't that far off from being that guy in real life. But the truth is that Rapaport is a devoted hip hop follower, and his tastes and mine intersect in that we both have a fondness for the golden era of the early 1990s. And if you were a rap fan in the early 90s then you were a fan of A Tribe Called Quest.Rapaport spent a couple of years piecing together a documentary on the rap legends, titled Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. The film takes a rather deep, and often troubling look at the group's turbulent reign at the top of the heap, featuring some controversial interviews with all of the group's members. We've featured some pointed comments from the group on the film already. Sony scooped up the rights earlier this year with plans to roll it out slowly beginning on July 8th. Even if I leave my wallet in El Segundo it won't keep me from seeing this when it hits DC on July 15th.
A new poster has been released for the film, which you can see above. A sweet take on Tribe's seminal release, The Low End Theory
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