Fear of a Black Hat (1994)

Directed by

Rusty Cundieff

Genre

comedy film, hood film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mockumentary follows a graduate student making a film about a hip hop group called N.W.H. over the course of a year. It satirizes the culture and trends in rap music during the early 1990s.

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What happens

Fear of a Black Hat is a 1993 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music. Written and directed by Rusty Cundieff in his directorial debut, the film stars Cundieff, Larry B. Scott and Mark Christopher Lawrence. Fear of a Black Hat is similar in format to the satirical film about early 1980s heavy metal, This Is Spinal Tap. It is told from the point of view of a graduate student who is documenting the hip hop group N.W.H. (which stands for "Niggaz With Hats", a reference to N.W.A.) for a year as part of her thesis. The title is derived from the 1990 Public Enemy album Fear of a Black Planet. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 1993, and was later theatrically released on June 3, 1994. While critically acclaimed, it was a box office bomb. Its stature has grown in the years since its release and the film has acquired a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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