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THE FURIOUS FORCE OF RHYMES
a film by Joshua Atesh Litle
A coproduction of
SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS
ARTE FRANCE
LINK TV
FURIOUS MEDIA LLC
LES FILMS D’ICI
Artist Appearances
USA
GRANDMASTER CAZ (Cold Crush Brothers)
VERNON “DYVERSE” WOOTEN
BUSY BEE
MI (Dead Prez)(USA Version)
STIC MAN (Dead Prez)(USA Version)
DAVEY D (USA Version)
D-NICE (Boogie Down Productions)(USA Version)
LORD JAMAR (Brand Nubian)(USA Version)
TONI BLACKMAN
TRES CORONAS
WILLIAM “DJ KUT SMOOTH” WOOTEN
FRANCE
SIDNEY DUTEIL
LES NUBIANS
BLONDY MOTA-KISOKA
TAFAT YOUCEF
CHRIS DJOKO
BAPTISTE GAUTIER
LA FOUINE
IRON SY
BSM PRO
BAMS
9DOR
KERY JAMES
MOUANGOU DONAL DADJOUMA
GERMANY
JOE RILLA
D-FLAME
TYRON RICKETTS
MONTANA BEATS
LATASH
KOOL SAVAS
SIDO
ISRAEL / PALESTINE
RAMALLAH UNDERGROUND
G-TOWN THE PALESTINIAN HIP-HOP MAKERS
DAM
SHADIA MANSOUR
SAGOL 59
SYSTEM ALI
SHA’ANAN STREET (Hadag Nahash)
OMRI GERSHON
ISMAEL KHAROUB (Som3A)
QUAMI DE LA FOX
SENEGAL
WATERFLOW (Wagëblë )
NIX
ALIF
DIDIER AWADI (Positive Black Soul)
XUMAN (Pee Froiss)
KOOL KOCC 6 (Pee Froiss)
ABASS ABASS
GOKH-BI SYSTEM
Producers
SERGE LALOU
STEVEN LAWRENCE
JOSHUA ATESH LITLE
Director and Cinematographer
JOSHUA ATESH LITLE
Editors
GLORIA BREMER
JEROME LEFDUP
MARTHA SKOLNIK
Writer
JOSHUA ATESH LITLE
Associate Producer
DAVID PIPERNI
Music Supervisor
WENDELL HANES
Score
WENDELL HANES & MATHIEU “SNAX” GORDON
Additional Music
VOLITION SOUND BRANDING
Sound Recordists
ALEXANDRE ABRARD
ETHEM BOZKURT
GUILLAUME VALEIX
Art Director
RAMZI HAZBUON
Sound Mix
DENIS LEFDUP
Colorist
YOV MOOR
Assistant directors
PIERRE DEFENDINI
NICOLAS HUVE KOUSMICHOFF
Talent Liaison
DEDRICK WILKINS
CLEMENT DUMOULIN
Additional Camera
RUBEN O’MALLEY
ADAM FEINSTEIN
MARIA LUISA GAMBALE
FRANZISKA KUNZE
AVIGAIL IMMANUEL
Assistant camera
GEORGE SU
FABINETA DIOP
Grip
ARONA CAMARA
JEAN CHEN
Crane Operators
ROY AMARA
KHALDOON EID
Assistant Editor
PASCALE ALIBERT
COUMBA DIAGNE
Narrator
GRANDMASTER CAZ
Production Manager
MAGALI BOCCACCIO
Production Coordinators
YONA AZOULAY (Israel)
JOY HAYAT BERHANU (Germany)
HAMET FALL DIAGNE (Senegal)
MATT FABIANO (USA)
SAMI SAID (West Bank)
Assistant to the director
YARED WUBE
Production Assistants
MOHAMAD DIA
BULENT KILAVUZ
MARIANNE KOROMAH
MASSAMBA NDIAYE
OUSSEYNOU NDIAYE
IOANNA TSINIVIDI
Translations & transcriptions
YONA AZOULAY
JOY BERHANU
FRANZISKA KUNZE
PAPA MOUSSA LO
MONIQUE NAOUM
MANAL TAMIMI
FRANK TETU
NETA WEINER
Legal Services
DAN SATORIUS (Satorius Law Firm)
IVAN SAPERSTEIN (Saperstein & Crowell)
CHARLES-EDOUARD RENAULT (De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés)
STEPHANIE BERLAND-BASNIER (Gide Loyrette Nouel)
Post Production Services
WALLPAPER
LE SNARK
VDM
AVIDIA
Music
Mr. Bongo APACHE
(Lordan)
© Because Music / 1959 Francis Day & Hunter Ltd
Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing France
All rights reserved
CALIFORNIA SOUL performed by Marlena Shaw
(Ashford / Simpson)
© 1967 JOBETE Music Co Inc (P) 1969 MCA Records Inc.
Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing France and Universal Music Vision
All rights reserved
THE MESSAGE performed by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
(Fletcher Edward G / Robinson Sylvia / Chase Clifton Nat / Glover Melvin L Jr)
Courtesy of Sugarhill Records/Rhino Entertainment Company
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
© Sugar Hill Music Publishing, legally represented by Budde Music France
(P) 1982 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. (United Kingdom)
Video clip directed by Sylvia Robinson
Courtesy of Universal Music Vision
MAKEDA performed by Les Nubians
(Belkhir - Faussart - Faussart / Faussart - Faussart / Arr ; Belkhir)
© 1998 DELABEL EDITIONS
Courtesy of DELABEL Editions
All rights reserved
LE CUIR USE D’UNE VALISE performed by La Rumeur
(Mohamed Bourokba - Mourad Kamil - Ekoué Labitey
Philippe Melquiond/Gérald Ramanantsoa - Mehdi Zerbouhi)
© V2 Music Publishing / Kif S.A. French Flavor / Fuas Music
Video clip directed by Raphaël Frydmann
(P) 2001 Capitol, a division of EMI Music France
Courtesy of Universal Music Vision and EMI Music France
AUTOBIOGRAPHIE performed by La Fouine
(Laouni Mouhid/Marc Jouanneaux - Clement Dumoulin)
© 2004 Sony Music Entertainment (France) S.A.S./
Universal Music Publishing France MGB./ Marc Jouanneaux - Clement Dumoulin
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment France and Universal Music Vision
BOULICE written & performed by Bams, composed by Dj Junkaz Lou
From the album « De ce monde » for Junkadélic Zikmu
All rights reserved
RESISTANT written & performed by Iron Sy
All rights reserved
BANLIEUSARDS performed by Kery James
(Hichem Bonnefoi/Sylvain Couturier/Marie-Jeanne Serero/Alix Mathurin)
(P)& (C) 2007 Warner Music France
© Because Editions/Kilomaitre Publishing/94 Side Publishing
Video clip directed by Leila Dixmier
Courtesy of WARNER MUSIC France, a Warner Music Group Company
OUVERTURE - PARTITA from “Ouverture A La Francaise BWV 831”
Performed by Christophe Rousset (J.S. Bach)
(P) 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Courtesy of Universal Music Vision
DER OSTEN ROLLT performed by Joe Rilla
(Hagen Stoll)
© Geto Gold Musikverlag / Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH
Video clip directed by Famefabrik
Video footage with kind permission of Aggro Berlin
ALLES GEHT written & performed by Tyron Ricketts
Produced by Montana Beats
All rights reserved
MEIN BLOCK performed by Sido
(Paul Wuerdig / Roman Preylowski)
© Arabella Musikverlag GmbH / Edition Sehr Gut c/o Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH / Imagem London Ltd represented by Because Editions
Courtesy of Universal Music Vision
Video clip directed by Specter, Daniel Harder
With kind permission of Aggro Berlin
ADRIANO (LETZTZ WARNUNG) Long version performed by Brothers Keepers
Music by Xavier Naidoo / DJ Desue
Lyrics by Xavier Naidoo - DA Germ - Dennis Lisk - Frederik Hahn - Tyron Ricketts
Sekou Neblett - Robert Zemichiel - Thomas Adegoke Odukoya - Chima Onyele
Abiodun Odukoya - Samy Sorge - Daniel Kretschmer - Onosizo Ngcala
Chris Kindt - Haschim Elobied - René Swaim
(P) &(C) 2001 WEA RECORDS / WARNER MUSIC GERMANY
© Warner Chappell Music GMBH - Arabella Musikverlag - Ed.Fourplay - Premium Blend Music Prod
Top Schotta - Vierundsiebzig Ed. - Ed.Elijah - X-Amount Ed- Ed. Bilen
C-Wort Music Publishing GMBH - Rotary Head Music - Sempex Musikverlag GMBH
Courtesy of Universal Music Vision and Warner Chappell Music France
Video clip directed by Dany Levy
Courtesy of WARNER MUSIC France, a Warner Music Group Company
SIJEN IB SIJEN performed by Ramallah Underground
(Aswatt / Stormtrap / Boikutt)
All rights reserved
IL7ILIM IRRAMADY performed live by G-Town
(Muhammad Mughrabi / Muhammad Abu Oun / Alaa barhamiyeh)
European-Palestinian Hip-Hop tour May 2009
All rights reserved
KOLLON 3ENDON DABABAAT performed by Shadia Mansour feat. DAM
Written by Shadia Mansour / Produced by Sandhill
All rights reserved
JERUSALEM
Sagol 59 feat. Sha’anan Street (Hadag Nachash), Rebel Sun
Courtesy of JDub Records
(P) 2008 JDub Music Inc.
THAT IL ANKAD performed by Ramallah Underground
(Aswatt / Stormtrap / Boikutt)
All rights reserved
3ALA BALI performed by System Ali
(Abed Samanuti / Amneh Jarushi / Mhamad Mugrabi / Neta Weiner)
All rights reserved
BONIM AND HABAYIT MEHADASH/ YAFFAWIYE/ VAINA
performed live by System Ali
(Amneh Jarushi / Mhamad Mugrabi / Neta Weiner / Mhamad Aguani / Enver Seitibragimov
Abed Samanuti / Yonatan Kunda / Eran Fink / Liba Neeman / Dror Goldstein)
All rights reserved
MIM MIM (MC) performed live by DAM
(Mahmood Jrery / Suhell Nafar / Tamer Nafar)
Produced by Ori Shochat, sampled from Fayruz and um Kulthum
All rights reserved
PALISTISRAEL
Written & performed by Neta Weiner, Amneh Jarushi, Omri Gershon,
Ismael Kharoub, Quami De la Fox
Produced by Volition Sound Branding
Recorded by Daniel Kestenboim at Babaganooshka studio
Music from POSSE SLASH produced by Da Beatminerz
(P) T.W. Arrington II Aikikai Sound Inc. for Sesac.
Courtesy of IGC Records/Chocolate Industries
NIX RAP written & performed by Nix
Produced by Volition Sound Branding and Furious Media, LLC
Engineered by Philip Monteiro
All rights reserved
FOKK written & performed by ALIF
(Myriam / Mina / Oumy)
All rights reserved
KA SOUMA MAN composed by Sekouba “Bambino” Diabaté
Courtesy of Popular African Music
YAYE written & performed by Pee Froiss
All rights reserved
VAGINA performed by Emmanuel Jal
Written by Emmanuel Jal et Clinton Outten
Courtesy of Emmanuel Jal et Sonic 360
SENEGAL by Waterflow (Papa Moussa Lo) & EyeWitness (Lamine Kandji)
Produced by Rumbin (Tom Roger for Big City studio Lillestrom-Norway
Executive producer: Fredrik Russell – Senegal/Norway 2005
Wagëblë/Two thou Ent. All rights reserved
AFRICA FOR AFRICANS performed by Pee Froiss
All Rights Reserved
DJ FORM 11 by DJ Form
DADA & SHAKE BEAT de Dan Kramer for Volition Sound Branding
A TOWN by Moe Digga for Volition Sound Branding
Graphics
JASPER HESSELING
VALENTIN LECAT
Stock Footage
WILDSTYLE BY CHARLIE AHEARN © 1982
STYLE WARS BY TONY SILVER © 1984 PUBLIC ARTS FILMS INC.
THE BRONX: A CRY FOR HELP BY BRENT OWENS © 1987
BEAT THIS: A HISTORY OF HIP HOP BY DICK FONTAINE
© UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC B.V.
HIP HOP BY GABRIEL COTO HOSTED BY SIDNEY © 1984 ATVF
365 JOURS A CLICHY MONTFERMEIL BY LADJ LY © KT PRODUCTIONS
20 HEURES LE JOURNAL 2005 © INA – Institut National Audiovisuel
UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS / INTERNET ARCHIVE (www.archive.org)
OPEN SOURCE MOVIES / INTERNET ARCHIVE (www.archive.org)
IMAGES courtesy of NASA
Stills
GETTY IMAGES
COURTESY OF CAPITOL RECORDS, LLC
THOMMY MARDO
NASA
UNICEF TELEVISION
Special Thanks
USA
PATRICIA IRIGOYEN, MATHIEU FERRAN, Q-TIP, THE LAST POETS, MC LYTE, PARRISH SMITH, SPECIAL ED MALCOM X GRASS ROOTS MOVEMENT, BLACK AUGUST, MARTHA DIAZ, H2Oiff, HIP-HOP ASSOCIATION H2A, D-NICE LEE KRUGMAN, DOUG DUETSCH, JEAN-JACQUES NEIRA, GINA FABIANO, SEAN PERRY, SHERRY SIMPSON
France
DJ MARS, BOOMER, 113 (RIM’K & A.P.), MALA, ISSAKA, EXS, PASSI, BRAKOSTYLE, NADINE HOUNKPATIN, DIXON, CANARDO, SAMSON OHOUENS, FEEL GOOD,
MAMAGE & PAPAGE, FRANCOISE BURAUX, STEPHANIE BORING, CHRISTOPHE LERAIE, PATRICIA CONORD, DAVID BERDAH
Germany
BEKTAS, SAVAS, SIDO, MELBEATZ, CURSE, GOTZ “GG” GOTTSCHALK, DESO DOGG,
B-TIGHT, METAPHYSICS, TANER KALAK, MICHI BECK, SITLAR, RAPHAEL HILLEBRAND, BAZZ, NIKEATA THOMPSON, VOLKAN MALKOC, JAN BUCHENBOM,
OBERSTAATSANWALT PREISSNER
Israel & Palestine
SAZ, ARI HASIT, SHOUFAT REFUGEE CAMP, SABREEN
Senegal
FRIENDS GEES, DJ GEE BAYSS, FORUT, DANIEL ENGER
IN MEMORY OF
ANDRE BUTLER AND “BIG BEN” BEN BLUTSTEIN
International Sales
DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL – DANIELA ELSTNER
FOR SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS
Production Manager
GRETA S. PITTARD
Supervising Producer
KATE SWEENEY
Director of Production Management
ADDIE MORAY
Executive Producer
JOY GALANE
Vice President of Development
CHRIS HOELZL
Vice President of Production
CHARLES POE
Executive Vice President of
of Programming and Production
DAVID ROYLE
FOR ARTE FRANCE
Unité de programmes
Culture et Spectacles
GABRIELLE BABIN GUGENHEIM
Chargée de programmes
ISABELLE MESTRE
Administrateur
PASCAL ARON
Assisté de
LESLIE GILLI
Chargée de post production
HELENE STEVENSON
FOR LINK TV
STEVEN LAWRENCE
FOR FURIOUS MEDIA LLC
JOSHUA ATESH LITLE
FOR LES FILMS D’ICI
SERGE LALOU
Executive Producer
LAURENT DURET
International Sales
CHARLOTTE UZU
In association with
YLE Co-Productions - OUTI SAARIKOSKI
With the participation of
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINEMATOGRAPHIE
The support of
PROCIREP – SOCIETE DES PRODUCTEURS
AND ANGOA
© 2010 SNI/SI Networks L.L.C., ARTE France, Link TV, Furious Media L.L.C., Les Films d’Ici
All rights reserved