The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.

When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds h...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

A documentary that shows us the experiences, and experiences of a group of young people who have bee...

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular ...

A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty unti...

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...

After three years of hustle in the capital, Jony Nyberg is dumped and forced to move back into his m...

Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him...

Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerin...

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-...

The life of a young man who is passionate about music (rap) and the problems of his family accepting...

The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco...
Spike, an aspiring rapper, gets sucked into a criminal environment and ends up in jail for smuggling...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedd...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

A mother struggles to hold her family together as multiple crises threaten to destroy them.