The Great Hip Hop Hoax Page #2

Synopsis: Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake American accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded "the rapping Proclaimers" by scornful A&Rs, friends Billy and Gavin reinvented themselves as LA homeboys. The real deal. The lie was their golden ticket to a dream life. With confessions from the scammers, insight from the music execs they duped and doodle reconstructions, the film charts the roller coaster story of the highs of the scam and the lows of madness and the personal toll the deception took. A film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.
Director(s): Jeanie Finlay
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
93 min
Website
15 Views


So, that's, like,

just one little verse.

Billy was the, sort of,

entertainer and, kind of,

hyping the crowd up, and Gav was,

like, this evil genius

behind the whole thing, and I just

wanted to get my lyrics across.

Gavin was almost quite militant.

He was the driving force

behind everything that we did.

Effectively forcing us

to record and write music.

He was completely

and utterly in charge.

I got addicted to production.

I fell in love with beat machines

and just the technical side of it

was really addictive to me.

We'd sit and read thesauruses,

we'd read dictionaries,

we built our word banks up.

We were confident in our music,

we were confident in our lyrics.

At that time, we were naive

enough to believe that

that's what mattered in music,

was the talent

of the actual music itself,

and the lyrics, and the writing.

And, obviously, that wasn't the case.

# Come gather in my long

Scottish wind

# Belt out your blackest poems

as the sea around you sings

# When that drone takes to the air

# A single note to raise my hair

# Carry songs beyond my lungs

# Cold Scottish wind ##

I grew up in Arbroath

with dreams of leaving.

It's the same as any small town

anywhere in the world.

It's the kind of town that

you grow up to move away from.

Especially if you're creative.

There's no creative scene.

The idea was always

to get in a band and move away.

You know the story about us

auditioning for the record label,

down in London?

This banner popped up on a website

and it said,

"Are you the next Eminem?"

"Are you the next Eminem?

Are you the next Usher?"

At the time, in our heads,

we were it.

We took the 13-hour bus journey down

and we were quite confident.

We were like, "Yeah, we've got

something really original. "

In comes the one with

the tongue sharp as thorns

An art of scorn, my style's

immaculately bastard born.

When we arrived at the audition

I realised we were drowning

Eminems in a sea of Ushers

as everyone else was pimped out

in this hip-hop gear.

So we stood out.

I was used to rapping

in little pubs and clubs,

nothing with that much

importance or attention.

And it was three A&Rs, but

you would probably say judges now.

You know, this was before X Factor.

They looked up and they

were, kind of, "Hmm. "

And as soon as we started saying,

"Oh, we're B Production,"

talking in a Scottish accent

the vibe just changed horribly.

They were, like, squinting

their eyes, like, "Hmm. "

Looking at each other like...

Rappers having no fun

are no-one

They're probably coming out

more overdone

Posh spice and David Beckham's son...

We could tell that they weren't

taking us seriously.

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