The Hip Hop Project

[2007, Movie]

The Hip Hop Project: Review

The Hip Hop Project, Christopher Cannon Mapp

Shot over the course of four years, Scott K. Rosenberg and Matt Ruskin's documentary about the development of a nonprofit program that uses music to keep troubled teenagers on the straight and narrow follows a familiar uplifting paradigm. But the story is compelling enough that even glib phrases like "healing through hip-hop" can't drag it down. Christopher "Kazi" Rolle was abandoned by his mother in their native Bahamas and, after passing through a series of orphanages an... read more