The combination of hip-hop and Hollywood is a scary one. On both scenes, egos are stoked to monstrous levels and if you're a hot property nobody will ever say "no". Currently straddling both worlds is director Hype Williams, the man who revolutionised hip-hop videos and, by extension, MTV itself, matching the music's strong sense of excess with cartoonish, melodramatic visuals. But if his big-screen debut Belly is anything to go by, gritty feature-length tales of ghetto life are best left to the likes of Spike Lee or John Singleton.
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