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Similar Movies:

Hustle & Flow

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

Semi-Conscious: Driving in the Real World

Bodied

8 Mile

Cool as Ice

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Beat Street

Money, Power, Respect: Hip Hop Billion Dollar Industry

Breakin'

CB4

Notorious

Straight Outta Compton

It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet

Nicki Minaj: Pink Planet

Tupac: Resurrection

Dance Flick

Welcome to Death Row

On the Come Up

Runaway