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.

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.

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

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

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

A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly en...

Seok-Yong, a 33-year old rapper wannabe spent all his life pursuing for his dream.
A young hip-hop artist who, having had enough of the hopelessness of trying to live off a musician’s...

The city of Chicago is plagued by gang violence on both sides of the city in this modern retelling o...

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia...

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local O...

A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After...

A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensa...

At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But whe...

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

A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience...

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go b...

Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the viole...

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

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