Streets Is Watching (1998)

Original title

Streets is Watching

Directed by

Abdul Malik Abbott

Genre

musical film, hood film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jay-Z ties together unreleased music videos with skits that are set in his old Brooklyn neighborhood. The skits set the scene for the songs, which come from his early albums.

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What happens

Streets Is Watching is a 1998 American musical drama film in which Jay-Z composes a film with many of his unreleased music videos tied into a storyline. The film takes place in Jay-Z's old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The film uses transitional skits between music from Jay-Z's albums Reasonable Doubt and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. The film is noteworthy because it contains Jay-Z's first two videos, "In My Lifetime" and "I Can't Get Wit That", both released without a major label contract. Each skit is meant to accompany the music it precedes. The same setting or set of the videos are also the same set for the correlating skit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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