Rap World, a new mockumentary starring comedian
@conner_omalley_ , takes the framework of great music documentaries like Get Back and applies it to a group of white rappers in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania filming themselves as they try to make an album in one night, despite having no songs or real focus to speak of.
Rap World, which was written by O’Malley alongside his co-stars
@ericrahill and
@jackbensinger , is profoundly dumb and all the more enjoyable for it. Set in 2009, it captures a time when social media existed but the general public were not acutely aware of how to appear on camera or how quickly the footage could be widely shared. There is a nostalgic feeling to the footage made accurate to the era by director
@dannyscharar (alongside co-director O’Malley) shooting on digital video cameras from the era. It gives the 57-minute film a unique grainy texture, the kind of thing you might stumble across on YouTube after an intrepid fan ripped the footage from a DVD stored in a wallet alongside Superbad or the proto-Jackass series, CKY.
Read
@ddavidrenshaw ’s interview with the whole crew at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.
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