Storyville - Season 17 Episode 17 The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Foul-mouthed Californian hip hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. But no-one knew the pair were really amiable Scotsmen, with fake American accents and made up identities. This documentary tells the audacious tale of how two lads from Dundee duped the record industry and nearly destroyed themselves.
When their promising Scottish rap act was branded 'the rapping Proclaimers' by a scornful record industry, friends Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain reinvented themselves as Los Angeles homeboys. The lie was their golden ticket to a record deal and a dream celebrity life. With confessions from the rapping imposters, insight from the music industry they duped and animated elements, the film charts the rollercoaster story of this outrageous scam.
A stranger-than-fiction true account of fractured friendship, the pressure of living with lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.
First Air Date: Nov 15, 1997
Last Air date: Jun 18, 2024
Season: 28 Season
Episode: 660 Episode
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 19.708
Language: English
Keyword : current affairs
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The House I Live In
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song
Queen of Versailles
Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance
Expedition to the End of the World
Google and the World Brain
The Pirate Bay
How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion
I Will Be Murdered
Surviving the Tsunami: My Atomic Aunt
The Road, a Story of Life and Death
Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa
The Law in These Parts
Power, Money, Greed & Oil
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
The Disappeared
Hotel Folly - Folie a Deux
The Spy Who Went into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed
Fame in China
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