Director Allen Hughes inked a deal with the estate of Tupac Shakur for a 5-part documentary on the rappers life. This will be Hughes follow-up to his successful HBO Documentary, The Defiant Ones, which featured Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. This will be the first documentary that has full cooperation from the Shakur estate, which […]

It’s been one year since Bad Boy rapper Craig Mack passed away at the age of 47, and a new documentary about the final year of his life will be coming out soon.  The documentary, When God Comes,” will be centered around the alleged “cult” that Craig joined and the sexual misconduct accusations made against […]

‘PRINCE’S LAST YEAR’ TO BE CHRONICLED IN NEW DOCUMENTARY Lincoln Square Productions will offer all-new insight into the final twelve months of Prince’s life, chronicling a more intimate time in the iconic singer’s career in a new documentary titled Prince’s Last Year. The project will be taking a look at the most important moments of the […]

Fresh off the success of the Kalief Browder documentary, Jay Z and the Weinstein company are reportedly partnering up again to do an ambitious series of film and television projects about Trayvon Martin. According to Variety, the rap icon won the rights to two books about Martin, the unarmed black Florida teenager who was fatally […]

Even cable networks get scammed sometimes. That was the case for the A&E Channel who cancelled their upcoming KKK documentary which was intended to serve as a close look at anti-hate extractors focused on helping people leave the Ku Klux Klan. In a statement released over the weekend, the network said that they’ve decided not to air […]

Forest Whitaker will co-produce Roxanne Roxanne, a feature about the 1980s Roxanne hip-hop wars in New York.

The film, "Whitney," will premiere on BBC Two and will explore "the forces that made and destroyed the singer."

Director Muta'Ali Muhammad said creating the documentary was the perfect excuse to interview and spend time with his widely-admired grandmother.

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According to Billboard.com, a Grace Jones documentary is finally in the works. One of the most talked about women of the ’70s and ’80s is…

Black Music Month

In 1995 Russell Simmons teamed with director Brian Robbins and producer Mike Tollin (Tollin/Robbins Productions) to create Def Jam’s Hip-Hop documentary “The Show.” “The Show”…

Maybach Music soldier Wale just dropped his third album “The Gifted.” In order to celebrate, the Washington, D.C. native released a short documentary. The film…