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With the release of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues , I figured now was the perfect time to dive into one of my favorite genres: the mockumentary. Yep, movies shot in the style of documentaries but telling completely fictional stories. Or, as I like to call it: the art of lying with a straight face. A mockumentary, the word itself is a mash-up of “mock” and “documentary," is basically a movie (or TV show) that pretends to be a documentary while presenting totally made-up eve

Hip-hop and movies have been linked since the beginning. Now sure, hip-hop music itself officially kicked off in the early 1970s, born from block parties in the Bronx where DJs were spinning disco, stretching those instrumental breaks, scratching records, letting MCs jump on the mic, and creating something totally new. It was disco rap at first, but it grew fast, into something more than music. It became a movement. A culture. A way of life. And film caught onto that energy r