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The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a British film of genre Comedy with Billy Boyd

The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013)

The Great Hip Hop Hoax
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Length 1h33
Genres Comedy,    Documentary,    Musical
Rating70% 3.5357453.5357453.5357453.5357453.535745

The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a documentary film by Jeanie Finlay about a Scottish hip-hop duo called Silibil N' Brains, who pretended to be Americans to secure a £250,000 record deal with Sony. The film premièred at South by Southwest and was later shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, before a national theatrical release in Scotland and broadcasts on BBC Two Scotland, BBC Four, and Danish station DR2.

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Billy Boyd

(Himself)
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