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- Tamra Davis
Summary
Tamra Davis's mockumentary stars Chris Rock as MC Gusto, a middle-class kid who fabricates a gangsta-rap origin story to launch his fictional group 'Cell Block 4.' Allen Payne and Deezer D co-star; cameos include Ice-T, Ice Cube, Flavor Flav, Eazy-E, Halle Berry and the Beastie Boys.
Hip-hop relevance
One of the first widely seen comedic deconstructions of gangsta-rap authenticity, released the same year as Dr. Dre's The Chronic was reshaping the mainstream. Anticipated the genre-spoof tradition continued by Fear of a Black Hat (1993) and later films.
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