The Great Hip Hop Hoax
To celebrate the release of California Schemin’ on Fri 10 April, we’re bringing 2013 documentary The Great Hip Hop Hoax back to our screens.
See both films for the special price of £16 when you book them at the same time. Simply log into your account and select your tickets, then the discount will be applied at the checkout.
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 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 and scored 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.
