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THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX

By Jeanie FINLAY

MET FILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2013

Faking everything for fame and the American dream.

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Director(s)
- Jeanie FINLAY
- Producer(s)
- Al MORROW, Jeanie FINLAY, Stewart LE MARECHAL, Jonny PERSEY, Jerry ROTHWELL, Aisling AHMED
- Synopsis
- Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n’ Brains were going to be massive. What no-one knew was the pair were really students from Scotland, with fake American accents and made up identities.
  
  The Great Hip Hop Hoax (88 minutes) is a film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame. The American dream, told by people who’d never even been to America.