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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him...
The action takes us on a disturbing, high-energy, graphic experience that is like attending a heady ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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