'The Art of Rap': Ice-T and his friends give hip-hop some of its due ✭✭ 1/2

Why doesn't rap garner the respect afforded jazz and the blues? Not without its share of self-interest, the question recurs throughout "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap," executive-produced, directed by and featuring Ice-T, who shares the screen with a strong percentage of the major rap and hip-hop artists of the last three decades.

Michael Phillips

June 14, 2012