This Is the Life (2008)
1h 37m
Running Time
February 8, 2008Release Date
This Is the Life (2008)
1h 37m
Running Time
February 8, 2008Release Date

Plot.
In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang culture and expand the musical boundaries of hip hop. DuVernay's documentary chronicles the historic legacy of the Good Life Cafe — the open mic nights that became an L.A. institution, the eclectic array of talented young MCs that emerged there, the alternative hip hop movement they developed, and their worldwide influence on the artform.
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Cast & Crew.

Abstract Rude
Self

Big Al
Self

Busdriver
Self

Chali 2na
Self

Cut Chemist
Self

Brian Cross
Actor

Ellay Khule
Self

Fat Jack
Self

Myka 9
Self

P.E.A.C.E.
Self

Pigeon John
Self

T-Love
Self

Volume 10
Self

2Mex
Self

Jyant
Self

Ava DuVernay
Self / Director / Producer

B. Hall
Self

Roderick Hall
Self

Brian Cross
Self

Keen
Self

Sheena Lester
Self

Monique Matthews
Self

Monalisa Murray
Self

Mear One
Self

Mike Nardone
Self

Garth Trinidad
Self

Omid Walizadeh
Self / Music Supervisor / Producer / Sound Editor / Original Music Composer

Krishna Devine
Editor

Spencer Averick
Producer / Editor

Ian A. Thompson
Sound Mixer

Ellene Miles
Co-Producer

Isaac Klotz
Producer / Director of Photography
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
hip-hop
improvisation
woman director
Wiki.
This Is the Life is a 2008 documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay, which chronicles the alternative hip hop movement that flourished in 1990s Los Angeles and its legendary center, the Good Life Cafe.
Interviewees include Myka 9 and P.E.A.C.E. of Freestyle Fellowship, Chali 2na and Cut Chemist of Jurassic 5, Medusa, Abstract Rude, Pigeon John, 2Mex, Chillin Villain Empire, Busdriver and many others. DuVernay, known at the time as Eve, was herself an MC at the Good Life open-mic as part of the group Figures of Speech.
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