The Great Hip Hop Hoax
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Director Jeanie Finlay Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Comedy, Music Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 6, 2013 (2013-09-06) Initial release September 6, 2013 (United Kingdom) Music director Paul Finlay, Michael Brennan, Graham Langley Producers Jeanie Finlay, Alison Morrow Cast Gavin Bain , James Bourne , Chris Rock , Jonathan Shalit , Billy Boyd Similar movies Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), Beef II (2004), Scratch (2001), Player Hating: A Love Story (2010), Time Is Illmatic (2014) Tagline Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really two students from Scotland, with fake US accents and made up identities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a documentary film by Jeanie Finlay about a Scottish hip-hop duo called Silibil N' Brains, who pretended to be Americans to secure a £250,000 record deal with Sony. The film premiered at South by Southwest and was later shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, before a national theatrical release in Scotland and broadcasts on BBC Two Scotland, BBC Four, and Danish station DR2. It was pitched at Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket in 2008.
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Reception
The movie has received positive reviews. Both members of Silibil 'N Brains are reportedly happy with how the film turned out, though find it "bizarre" to watch with other people.
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