• TITLE (ORIGINAL): SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP

    TITLE (English): SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP
    DIRECTOR: Ice –T
    CO-DIRECTOR: Andy Baybutt
    COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: UK
    YEAR: 2011
    LENGTH: 107 min
    FORMAT/COLOR/BW: Color
    LANGUAGE: English
    CREDITS

    Director: Ice –T
    Co-Director: Andy Baybutt
    Producer: Paul Toogood
    Executive Producers: Paul Toogood, Jorge Hinojosa, Ice-T, Simon Pearce, David Kaplan, Alison Toogood, Jelena Nikolic
    Cinematographers: Andy Baybutt, Jeremy Hewson
    Editor: Kieran Smyth
    Sound: Jamie Selway

    FILM SYNOPSIS
    "SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP" is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film’s director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey, Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal the art of Rap.

    This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archival material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.

    Director's Biography
    Ice-T es un ícono cultural que ha vendido millones de discos y, durante los últimos doce años, ha estelarizado el drama con mayor audiencia de la NBC, “La ley y el orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales”. Este año publicó una novela y una autobiografía y protagonizó un reality show de E! Andy Baybutt es un especialista en largometrajes documentales, que van desde “Close to You: La historia de los Carpenters” hasta “The Verve: El Video 96-98”. También ha dirigido más de 50 vídeos musicales.