Rap World, a hilarious found-footage mockumentary about aspiring rappers, is a hidden gem of 2024. Released on YouTube, it offers a surprisingly accurate and comedic look at the world of wannabe rappers in 2009.
From a handful of musicals that earned varying degrees of critical and commercial success — Wicked, Emilia Perez, and Joker: Folie a Deux — to films about great musicians that ranged from straightforward to different levels of form-challenging — A Complete Unknown, Piece by Piece, and Better Man — music-centered movies somewhat defined the final three months of the 2024 year in film.
Amidst this wave of music films, there was one release that unfortunately went fairly unnoticed, despite being an incredibly funny and accurate look into what it is actually like to be an aspiring musician. That film is Rap World, which was co-written by its stars Conner O'Malley, Jack Bensinger, and Eric Rahill, and co-directed by O'Malley and Danny Scharar. It is a found-footage-style mockumentary set in 2009 about a group of white wannabe rappers attempting to record a full album in one night in their hometown of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. A hilarious, absurd, and, at times, painfully insightful look into the era it's set in, Rap World is quite possibly the least discussed great film of 2024. It was released for free on YouTube in late October and, at the time this article is being written, has a view count just shy of 340,000. The film succeeds due in large part to its deep understanding of the people and time in history it is satirizing and because of the unwavering commitment to the bit brought by its creators and stars. Set in 2009, 'Rap World' is a Scarily Accurate Period Piece Close Rap World follows slacker friends Matt (O'Malley), Casey (Bensinger), and Jason (Rahill) on a quest to construct and record a rap album in a single night, despite being woefully unprepared and without any discernible vision or musical abilities to speak of. What they lack in talent, though, they make up for in delusionally large amounts of self-belief. The characters are the types of people who probably found a lot of inspiration in the film 8 Mil
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