Rapper biography movies on youtube

Capturing the joy of music on screen has befuddled some of our greatest minds.

Hollywood has spent millions trying to depict the stories of rap icons over the years with zero consistency in the outcome. Documentarians often get things more accurate but lack the reach of glitzy biopics.

To tell his story, music mogul and multi-hyphenate creative Pharrell Williams turned to LEGO animation with the hopes it can truly represent his love for music, enlisting Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville to create a biopic-documentary hybrid that indulges in flights of fantasy as much as it spends time in reality.

Piece By Piece is one of the most unique films of this decade and is even more unique within the storied past of feature-length tellings of hip-hop history. So, with Pharrell's biopic hitting theaters on October 11, here's a ranking of seven movies about rappers.