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HOTT AND RAW EXCLUSIVE!
Close your eyes, open your mind, and then imagine.
What would the world be like without the power of music?
As every journey of lost hope search for what many describe as an unforeseeable future, every generation continues capturing self-expression through music. From the Ice Age onto an era where kids grow faster in experience than size, it’s always evident that music reflects society’s struggle. However, does music have the capability of savivg lives?
Recently, in a documentary that I watched called THE HIP HOP PROJECT which is a film endorsed by Russell Simmons and executive produced by Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah.
The question of whether music has the ability to save lives is answered through a very compelling story about a group of New York City teens who embark on a unique journey of self-discovery as they dare to reach for their dreams. Inspired by a formerly homeless teenager named Kazi, the young people struggle to write music about the tough issues affecting their lives. Over the next four years, they overcome daunting obstacles to produce a powerful and thought-provoking album, recorded in a studio donated by Willis and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons. Winner of 16 film festivals this critically acclaimed film is a lasting legacy to the teens’ transformation through the power of hope and healing.
In this HOTT AND RAW EXCLUSIVE! DATZHOTT! talks with the CAST of THE HIP-HOP PROJECT about the making of the documentary and in what ways has the film saved their lives.
After LISTENING TO THE INTERVIEW ABOVE! Check below for The Hip-Hop Project film trailer and link to their website.
WHAT‘s HOTT!?! ABOUT THE HIP-HOP PROJECT!!!
Exemplification Of The True Power Of Music!
Shot over the course of four years, Scott K. Rosenberg and Matt Ruskin’s documentary about the development of a nonprofit program that uses music to keep troubled teenagers on the straight and narrow follows a familiar uplifting paradigm. But the story is compelling enough that even glib phrases like “healing through hip-hop” can’t drag it down.
Christopher “Kazi” Rolle was abandoned by his mother in their native Bahamas and, after passing through a series of orphanages and foster homes, made his way to New York as a teenager to find her. Their reunion went badly and he wound up homeless in Brooklyn, later finding refuge in Art Start, a program founded by codirector Rosenberg and a group of artists in 1991 with the goal of using the arts to empower at-risk teens and teach them skills that would help them rise above poverty, fractured families, street violence, drugs and a pervasive culture of despair. Kazi is a success story: Not only did Art Start give Kazi focus and purpose, but it inspired him to propose a new program in 1999. After getting the go-ahead, Kazi papered Brooklyn with flyers offering aspiring rappers the opportunity to collaborate on an album, then handpicked several teens to participate. He tells them he doesn’t want to hear derivative rhymes about thug life: He wants them to write about their lives. The stars of the group soon prove to be Diana “Princess” Lemon, who wants desperately to make more of her life than her parents did of theirs but has gotten pregnant and is messing up at school, and Christopher “Cannon” Mapp, who lost his mother to a slow death from multiple sclerosis and whose remaining family is now in danger of being evicted from their apartment. In between working with his fledgling performers, Kazi scrambles to find donors to keep the project afloat, eventually coming to the attention of Bruce Willis and Def Jam CEO Russell Simmons, who donates studio services that make the Hip Hop Project album a reality.
Video “The Hip-Hop Project” Documentary Trailer
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