Movie
Fear of a Black Hat
Overview
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
Details
- Release date
- 1994-06-03
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Status
- Released
- Production
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company, ITC Entertainment
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Larry B. Scott as Tasty Taste
- Mark Christopher Lawrence as Tone Def
- Rusty Cundieff as Ice Cold
- Kasi Lemmons as Nina Blackburn
- G. Smokey Campbell as Backstage Manager 1
- Faizon Love as Jam Boy 1
- Deezer D as Jam Boy 2
- Devin Kamin as Vanilla Sherbet
- Don Reed as Daryll in Charge
- Barry Shabaka Henley as Geoffrey Lennox
- Penny Johnson Jerald as Re-Re
- Rose Jackson as Cheryl C.
Crew
- Rusty Cundieff - Director
- Rusty Cundieff - Writer
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