Rhyme and Punishment

Movie · Documentary · Music

Acclaimed Hip-Hop documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer (Rhyme & Reason, Tupac: Thug Angel, Beef I-IV) takes his camera inside the nation’s toughest prisons to capture the real-life stories of some of the most influential Hip-Hop artists who have ever been incarcerated. Featuring intimate interviews with convicted rappers Beanie Siegel, Prodigy, Cassidy, Slick Rick, Immortal Technique and many others, find out what happens when celebrity status and 24-karat bling are replaced by orange jumpsuits and the shocking brutality of prison life.

2011 · 1h 38m
Director Peter Spirer

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Rhyme and Punishment

Documentary

Acclaimed Hip-Hop documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer (Rhyme & Reason, Tupac: Thug Angel, Beef I-IV) takes his camera inside the nation’s toughest prisons to capture the real-life stories of some of the most influential Hip-Hop artists who have ever been incarcerated. Featuring intimate interviews with convicted rappers Beanie Siegel, Prodigy, Cassidy, Slick Rick, Immortal Technique and many others, find out what happens when celebrity status and 24-karat bling are replaced by orange jumpsuits and the shocking brutality of prison life.

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Studio
Image Entertainment
Released
2011
Run Time
1 hr 38 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.