Ice-T's Rap School

2006

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6.8| 0h30m| en| More Info
Released: 20 October 2006 Ended
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Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/ice_t_rap_school/series.jhtml
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Ice-T's Rap School is a reality television show on VH1. It is a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons' Rock School, which also aired on VH1. In Rap School, rapper/actor Ice-T teaches eight teens from York Preparatory School in New York City how to become a real hip-hop group called the "York Prep Crew". Each week, Ice-T gives them assignments and they compete for an imitation gold chain with a microphone on it. On the season finale, the group performed as an opening act for Public Enemy.

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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
DeanNYC The idea that any New York City Prep School student is unaware of Urban Rap Culture would be like claiming those same kids don't know the Yankees play baseball in the Bronx. That might be true for someone who never set foot in the very eclectic world that is Manhattan, but those would absolutely be the only ones willing to buy the concept of "Ice-T's Rap School."Sort of a combination of "American Juniors" (remember that experiment?) and "Scared Straight," famed rapper and actor Ice-T goes to York Preparatory School, accosts the headmaster, Ronald P. Stewart to let him take a classroom of students and teach them the basics of rap so they can perform at a talent show at the end of the term.Most all of the amusement comes at the expense of the kids, who are going through the fish-out-of-water motions of "discovering" what "a beat" is and how to "break it down." Field trips to the city's outer boroughs bring both learning and apprehension, as the little group of hothouse flowers get exposed to the harsher side of life beyond Lincoln Center, and see just where much of the inspiration for the rhymes come from.Truthfully, if you went to any of New York's private schools, you would find that most, if not all of the kids have iPods filled with the hardest hardcore rap out there, so the concept of the program is flawed from the very start.Does this intrepid band of wannabe Snoop Doggs and Lil Kims have what it takes to win the crowd at their final performance? Only you can be the judge of that. Maybe if they played the whole thing less for the obvious jokes and more for the truth, this could have been worth watching. Ultimately, this only turned out to be a joke on everyone, especially the students of York Prep, who took a serious hit to their street cred.
mr-pump_pistol My first impressions of the show was that Ice T was selling out by trying to try suburban preppy kids how to "RAP". And after seeing the first 2 episodes...my opinion remains the same. Its sad to think that hip hop has become so mainstream that people are actually attempting to teach it in a class. The only good thing about the show so far is that its actually pretty funny to see this little prep school kids attempt to rhyme. Although they are supposed to be the smartest kids going to the most private prep school in new york they have very little rhyming ability. These kids spill such elementary rhymes as "you think you're cool but you are just a fool" and "you are the best because you have manbreasts". One other good thing is that Ice T took this little suburban kids to the South Bronx, most of them though they were going to get robbed, murdered, and raped but they found out the "hood" was not what they though it was.Overall the kids learn a good lesson and the mediocre rhymes are pretty funny.

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