I Am Hip Hop

I Am Hip Hop: The Chicago Hip Hop Documentary is about street music. It's about the underground, where hoop dreams are formed and the hardest MCs come to wage verbal warfare. This fiml is about the rappers that live, breathe, sleep and eat hip hop, who have a one in a million shot and know it. This is their story.

I Am Hip Hop offers a snapshot of ap music in Chicago from 2004-2009, and represents all sides and sounds of the city -- socially conscious backpackers, hardcore gangstas and everyone in between. More than a mere concert film, I Am Hip Hop explores universal themes such as racism, class struggle, urban poverty, and gang violence. Packed with candid interviews, powerful live performances, all-night studop sessions, and streetcorner ciperhs, I Am Hip Hop offers a backstage pass into the lives and art of Chicago's rap music underground.