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...

Everything changes for a rising hip-hop star, SEMBRÉ, and his manager, MARLENE, a talented indie art...

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

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...

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

A young man has an anxiety attack and in an attempt to feel something, he skips through Kanye West's...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco...

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