The Hip Hop Project
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  • Starring: Bruce Willis, Chris 'Kazi' Rolle, Russell Simmons
  • Summary: From Executive Producers Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah, The Hip Hop Project is the compelling story of Kazi a formerly homeless teenager who inspired a group of New York City teens to transform their life stories into powerful works of art, using hip hop as a vehicle for self-development and personal discovery. (ThinkFilm)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    83
    Kazi is a bundle of energy, and the film touches on an important and often-overlooked issue: The commercial pressure that is often brought to bear on rappers to be scurrilous and offensive. This project, which was produced by Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah, shows that there is another way.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    80
    Giving "inspirational" a good name, Matt Ruskin's vibrant and soulful documentary The Hip Hop Project sets its universal message to an inner-city beat.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    The film works best when it pays specific attention to how hard it is to write a rhyme worth hearing.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    58
    While their stories are well worth telling, first-time director Ruskin fails to shape his material into the dynamic film it might have been.

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