Streets Is Watching (film)
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1998 film directed by Abdul Malik Abbott
| Streets Is Watching | |
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| 10th Anniversary DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Abdul Malik Abbott |
| Written by | Abdul Malik Abbott Damon Dash Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter |
| Produced by | Schavaria Reeves |
| Starring | Jay-Z |
| Cinematography | Abdul Malik Abbott Henry Adebonojo Joaquín Baca-Asay Charles Houston |
| Edited by | Abdul Malik Abbott |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | PolyGram Video Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Streets Is Watching is a 1998 American musical drama film in which Jay-Z composes a film with many of his unreleased music videos tied into a storyline. The film takes place in Jay-Z's old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The film uses transitional skits between music from Jay-Z's albums Reasonable Doubt and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 .[1] The film is noteworthy because it contains Jay-Z's first two videos, "In My Lifetime" and "I Can't Get Wit That", both released without a major label contract. Each skit is meant to accompany the music it precedes. The same setting or set of the videos are also the same set for the correlating skit.
Soundtrack
[edit ]See also
[edit ]- Moonwalker , a film by Michael Jackson that also compiles music videos into a continuous film.
References
[edit ]- ^ Streets Is Watching (1998) - Movies, The New York Times
External links
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Categories:
- 1998 films
- 1990s hip-hop films
- American musical films
- Films set in Brooklyn
- 1990s hood films
- Jay-Z
- Musical films based on actual events
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films
- Universal Pictures direct-to-video films
- 1998 direct-to-video films
- 1990s English-language films
- 1990s American films
- English-language crime films
- English-language musical films
- 1998 musical films
- Musical film stubs