Awesome list and stories: Actor/Filmmaker Michael Rapaport blesses us with his “5 Records That Changed My Life.” http://bit.ly/Vh0QHN
Happy Birthday Michael Rapaport!
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Michael was born on 20 March 1970.
From Public Radio International’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn:
Michael Rapaport has an extensive list of acting credits, from Woody Allen films to roles on Boston Public, Friends, and Prison Break. For his newest project, he began with a vision to profile his favorite hip-hop group, A Tribe Called Quest, and ended up documenting their deep-rooted friendships and conflicts along with the musical history of the group.
His documentary, called Beats, Rhymes and Life is out now on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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Win Beats, Rhymes & Life on DVD and a poster signed by Michael Rapaport and Phife Dawg
The A.V. Club is giving away a copy of the A Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life on DVD and a poster signed by Michael Rapaport and Phife Dawg.
For info on how to enter, visit their website.
NYDailyNews.com: Michael Rapaport moves behind the camera to chronicle hip-hop favorites A Tribe Called Quest
By Jacob E. Osterhout
In a perfect world, Michael Rapaport would bike to Astoria every day to eat an overstuffed sandwich from Sal, Kris & Charlie’s Deli.
But the world isn’t perfect.
In fact, on this particularly sunny New York day, the 41-year-old actor — his films include and Woody Allen’s “Mighty Aphrodite” and “Small Time Crooks” — has such a bad stomachache, he doesn’t even bother to unwrap his sandwich.
Instead, he downs two ginger ales and stares longingly at his order — a sandwich full of five meats, three cheeses, four veggies, dressing, mustard and mayo, aptly named “The Bomb.”
“I’m not hungry right now, but I promise you that by the end of the day that sandwich will be eaten,” he says with a thick New York accent. “It’s perfection. It would be criminal to let the best sandwich in this city go to waste.”
MICHAEL RAPAPORT AND MALIK TAYLOR ON “BEATS, RHYMES AND LIFE”
Opening today is Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. Actor and longtime fan Michael Rapaport stepped behind the camera to both introduce a new audience to the seminal hip hop group but also to answer an aficionado’s longtime questions. Here’s a short interview filmed at Sundance, 2011. Photographed by Jamie Stuart, edited by Daniel James Scott, music by T. Griffin.
H2O Announces Details for Don’t Forget Your Roots via Video Announcement By Actor and Friend, Michael Rapaport
H2O has been a mainstay in hardcore and punk since their inception back in 1995 and have had many influences along the way. The band is thrilled to pay homage to those influential artists by covering their songs on the forthcoming album, Don’t Forget Your Roots, which will be available this Fall from Bridge Nine Records. One of H2O’s best friends and well-known actor, Michael Rapaport, had the pleasure of announcing each track for your viewing pleasure.
NYTimes.com: Asked and Answered | Michael Rapaport
By KATHRYN BRANCH | July 8, 2011, 12:29 pm
In 1998, when the hip-hop luminaries A Tribe Called Quest announced that their show at New York’s famous Tramps nightclub would be their last, fans and fellow musicians everywhere were devastated. There was no curtain call, no bows taken; it just ended. The Manhattan-born actor Michael Rapaport (“Zebrahead,” “Higher Learning”), a son of the general manager to WKTU-FM (Disco 92) and then just a fan in the crowd (he flew in from Mexico for the show), might have been the most crushed, saying now it felt as if his parents were getting divorced. Others in the loyal crowd included the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the rapper Busta Rhymes, whom many consider the fifth member of the Tribe. Eight years later, at Tribe’s reunion show at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, Rapaport applauded his favorite group backstage. “Someone needs to make a documentary about you guys,” he told Tribe’s front man, Q-Tip, whom he had met only briefly before. The response? “Go ahead, do it.”
And he did.
Global Grind: Michael Rapaport Goes On A Journey With A Tribe Called Quest
In case you’ve been living in a cave and haven’t heard, hip-hop legends and multiplatinum selling artists A Tribe Called Quest are featured in the documentary “Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest” which has received great reviews across the board and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the LA Film Festival last week.
The directorial debut of actor/comedian Michael Rapaport is the first ever hip-hop group documentary and has generated a considerable buzz, not only from the positive reviews but also from surprising revelations in the film about the nature of the relationship between the group members.
GlobalGrind had a chance to kick it with Michael Rapaport and talk about the challenges of making the film, his relationship with ATCQ, fainting in the club back in the day and stalking Rihanna.
