The Great Hip-hop Hoax Full Documentary
Two Scottish boys prove that you don't have to be authentic musical artists to succeed, but it's hard to live a lie.
Here, documentarian Jeanie Finlay follows the 2011 record store investigation, Sound It Out, with another story from the bangs of the music industry. In 2004, white rappers Silibil'n'Brains seized the post-Eminem moment to land lucrative deals with Sony. They claimed to be California skateboarders; in fact, they were Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain, two Arbroath chancers. Their method of rapping was more juvenile prank than impostor-like deception; Finlay takes advantage of the larky footage his subjects shot to document their upward trajectory, while tracing the growing desperation of dazed kids forced not only to live a lie but to sell it. Darker notes prevail as the gap between image and reality becomes too wide for the boys to reconcile, but it's mostly an amusing and amusing anecdote, if no advertisement for the music business: Daniel Bedingfield emerges as one of its wiser souls.
The Great Hip-hop Hoax Full Documentary
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