The Great Hip Hop Hoax
The Great Hip Hop Hoax

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Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake American accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded "the rapping Proclaimers" by scornful A&Rs, friends Billy and Gavin reinvented themselves as LA homeboys. The real deal. The lie was their golden ticket to a dream life. With confessions from the scammers, insight from the music execs they duped and doodle reconstruct... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Great Hip Hop Hoax:

Gavin Bain
Billy T. Boyd

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Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake American accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded "the rapping Proclaimers" by scornful A&Rs, friends Billy and Gavin reinvented themselves as LA homeboys. The real deal. The lie was their golden ticket to a dream life. With confessions from the scammers, insight from the music execs they duped and doodle reconstructions, the film charts the roller coaster story of the highs of the scam and the lows of madness and the personal toll the deception took. A film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.

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Moveable Fest - 8/10 by Stephen SaitoTo steal an American phrase, it's go big or go home.
Total Film - 8/10 by Emma ThrowerThe talking-head format may be shopworn, but it rarely undermines this infectious, insightful look at the fickleness of pop stardom.
Time Out - 8/10 by Tom HuddlestonThe hoax may have fallen flat, but the insights Boyd and Bain's story offers into creativity, commerce, obsession and insanity are unique and unmissable.
Daily Telegraph (UK) - 8/10 by David GrittenA smart morality tale about the illusory nature of celebrity, and the pressures it exerts once attained.
Radio Times - 8/10 by Terry StauntonThe film doesn't quite hit the mark as a hard-nosed exposé of a shallow, trend-led business, but it does work as a winsome study of the fickle nature of fame.
Shadows on the Wall - 8/10 by Rich ClineA thoroughly entertaining exploration of a friendship strained by an extraordinary situation.
Empire Magazine - 6/10 by Simon CrookAlthough the story feels stretched to feature length, it's a rollicking ride through the music biz in the company of two piss-taking Scots and their mics.
Guardian - 6/10 by Mike McCahillIt's mostly a poppy, funny anecdote, if no advert for the music biz: Daniel Bedingfield emerges as one of its savvier souls.
ViewLondon - 6/10 by Matthew TurnerEngaging and enjoyable documentary enlivened by a likeable central duo and a wealth of superb archive footage, though there's actually very little substance to the story outside of the basic synopsis.
Little White Lies - 6/10 by Sophie Monks KaufmanUndoubtably, the best reason to watch The Great Hip Hop Hoax is the delirious schadenfreude of seeing high-level execs getting taken for a ride by a pair of chancers.

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