KalaLife © Documentary Feature
“A Hip-Hop-menatary; Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of
A Tribe Called Quest, the Documentary with
rhythm”
By Nkechi Ndukwe
From Hip-hop's immense communal acceptance in
the early 1980s to the current distorted image surrounding the industry today, this
genre of music has quickly submerged the music market with pioneers of rap
(hip-hop) who have changed the way people relate to music. Every generation
has their handful of musical geniuses who trail-blaze a new way of style and
thinking. Hip-hop fans universally experience their own trailblazers as well.
No other group solidified their position in the hip-hop kingdom other than the
infamous hip-hop group “A Tribe Called Quest.” Through an eloquent documentary, director Micheal Rapaport conveys a different form documentaries by fusing hip-hop and storytelling.
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, is not a typical documentary. The editing technique along with the directors vision showcases the impact that hip-hop made on multiple societies during the 90s. Fourteen years after the group's dismantlement in 1997, July 8th, 2011, became the day that director Michael Rapaport and group members of A Tribe Called Quest: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jabori White graced fans with their critically acclaimed documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, an urban twist on biographical documentaries.
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, is not a typical documentary. The editing technique along with the directors vision showcases the impact that hip-hop made on multiple societies during the 90s. Fourteen years after the group's dismantlement in 1997, July 8th, 2011, became the day that director Michael Rapaport and group members of A Tribe Called Quest: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jabori White graced fans with their critically acclaimed documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, an urban twist on biographical documentaries.
After watching Beats Rhymes & Life, the background history of who the four
members of A Tribe Called Quest are allows for a better understanding of why
the group became breakout pioneers during the era. Being a Caucasian male director, Micheal Rapaport proves that A
Tribe Called Quest has targeted audiences of multiple diversities. In 2013, VH1
aired Beats Rhymes & Life for fans
of the group who could not experience the original debut of this urban classic
documentary. With its high viewer ratings, once again, documentaries such as this one show
that music fans still appreciate documentaries as an elite form of art that goes beyond the shallow levels of standard films and television.
As a different approach to documentaries this film would favor a feature writer that is interested in music, it is important that the feature story blends the music groups history along with the techniques the director used to creatively tell the story of this shift in hip-hop music.
As a different approach to documentaries this film would favor a feature writer that is interested in music, it is important that the feature story blends the music groups history along with the techniques the director used to creatively tell the story of this shift in hip-hop music.
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