- Network: FX
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 12, 2021
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Along with amassing a collection of wild, well-told stories that speak to the level of trust he was able to establish with his subjects, director Rashidi Natara Harper highlights the structural factors that kept these kingmakers from prospering in the straight world: racism, deindustrialization, poverty, drugs, mass incarceration. If The Black Church and Amend explore centuries of oppression, then Uncovered surveys its effects—both the great art and the profound human suffering.
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Hip Hop Uncovered has found a great angle to make the history of hip hop fresh again. It doesn’t hurt that the filmmakers get perspectives from so many big names about the history of the genre and the power brokers who made it work behind the scenes.
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FX's six-part documentary series Hip Hop Uncovered is like going to a bookshelf, seeing a multi-volume history of a pivotal genre and grabbing a book from somewhere in the middle. That's not a criticism in any way. ... It's an intermediate course that maybe assumes you've taken the 101 intro — but if you've indeed taken that intro course, Hip Hop Uncovered has intriguing characters, a provocative throughline and a rich approach to culture that I mostly appreciated.
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Hip Hop Uncovered doesn’t pack a punch. It might have had the series been streamlined by either shortening the bloated runtime or dedicating each episode to a single subject. The chronicle each person provides never coalesces into a satisfying whole.