The Real Story of H.I.P. H.O.P gathers together for the first time the original cast and crew of the show, telling the funny, inspiring and utterly shambolic story of how it all came to be. Featuring the program’s iconic host, Sidney, the first black presenter on French television. We talk with Hip-Hop artists, past and present, who collectively hail the program as not only a transformative event in their lives and careers, but also as an overlooked moment in French cultural history. H.I.P. H.O.P. showed a generation of young black, brown and white kids that they had a right to be themselves, to have fun while learning cool, new modes of expression, and it showed them that it was actually possible to do it together. This inclusive, healing vision of Hip Hop was no accident but in fact was a philosophy, originating from the Bronx and finding its way onto French public television long before it was ever broadcast in the US. The Real Story of H.I.P. H.O.P is about the collective journey of the idiosyncratic personalities, who together managed to bring this cultural UFO into our living rooms, where it’s been rhyming, tagging, back-spinning and evolving ever since.
Directed byJ.O.E. L’extra-terrestreYear2019Duration10 x 7'30BroadcastARTE Web
