Rap Music continues to be a catalyst for various creative mediums, including rap Artists who Cross Over to Film and television.
Selected Film projects and awards are mentioned.
Television projects are listed only if CINEMA projects are included.
The focus for this topical reference book will be on the Film resume.
For that reason, soundtrack and other Music resumes are not listed.
Rap musicians have Film soundtrack credits that include Music projects that were recorded hits before being attached or included in a Film or television project.
The criterion for the rap Artists profiled in this book is an established relationship to cinema.
For Artists such as Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Eve, Bow Wow, Niki Minaj, MC Hammer, Common, T.
I., and countless others able to navigate the transition, stardom went from mega to stratospheric.
Another consistent characteristic is focus, discipline, strategy, and will to succeed.
Collective profile interests include involvement in entrepreneurial and philanthropical endeavors.
Young impressionable minds look to their poetic example as a way of creative expression and a pathway to success.
Although rap Artists are known to proclaim, they are not role models; they are.
The index allows for the immediate page location of a specific profile.
Included are Film resumes for each profiled rap artist, and a list of definitive hip hop and rap movies, domestic and international.
The Film enthusiast will appreciate descriptions of positions in the Film industry: actor, executive producer, producer, director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
RAP TO CINEMA: Hip Hop Music Artists Who Cross Over to Film is a topical reference book that includes Film biographies of rap Artists who venture into filmmaking.
Rap Music continues to be a catalyst for various creative mediums, including rap Artists who Cross Over to Film and television