USA / United Kingdom / France 2015
German Premiere
Language: English
Subtitles: (none)
Director: Mike Todd
Camera: Quenell Jones
Script: Mike Todd
Editor: Mike Todd
Cast: Jalaluddin Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Chuck D, KRS One, Fab 5 Freddy and Melle Mel
Producer: Mike Todd, Geseth Garcia, Quenell Jones and Lathan Hodge
Sound: David Yapp
Distributer: Kaleidoscope
Lenght: 96 min
Format: DCP
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

Acclaimed by grandmaster Flash and Chuck D, sampled by Wu-Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys and Nas: at the centre of Mike Todd`s film portrait are grandfather of rap Jalal Nuriddin and the historical influence of his underground-albums Hustlers Convention which provides the missing link between soul power and hip-hop. Reflecting the urban and political consciousness of the Black Power movement after Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, it marks the birth of rap as the revolutionary further development of the art of storytelling. Melle Mel, Ice T, KRS One, Chuck D. and MC Lyte report about the influence which ”Rap`s great lost album” (The Guardian) exerted on them.