A promising hip-hop rhymer from Los Angeles finds herself in a gray area when a record producer offers her a compromising shot at stardom.
Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos
Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869425/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
18 songs in the Soundtracks.
Really hard to get through this. I suppose there are people like these, but I don't want to know them or know about them. Not even with LDP and EJO in the cast, both of whom I like.
GR's mother (LDP's wife) is in prison and needs cash to pay off her drug purchases. But she tells GR that it's for a new trial b/c the copy whose testimony convicted her has been fired and is under indictment.
GR has some rapping talent, so she gets an advance on a record contract. But her first song, the one her mother gave her, is plagiarised. Meanwhile, 17yo younger sister has been cornered and nearly raped by a dj involved with the record producer. Later GR ambushes him, beating him pretty well. Then he visits revenge on a friend of the girls, and they kidnap GR. Somehow dad knows exactly where they'll be, and chokes the leader nearly to death. The record exec is there too, and GR gives him a new song to make a hit after the publicity of her plagiarism.
AVOID.
Oddly, MySpace was mentioned here. It's been years of MySpace, and we don't remember it today. Per Britannica.com, Facebook had a billion users by 2012, but I haven't heard it mentioned yet.
Rated 5.7 (995)
indie, dir. Delara & Olmos; 5-
