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The untold story of the world’s longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels’ archives — amassed over nearly 40 years — reveal the show’s importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.

6.4

120 min

Cast

Nas

as Self

Ralph McDaniels

as Self

Wendy Williams

as Self

Sean Combs

as Self

Jay-Z

as Self

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

as Self

Fat Joe

as Self

Sway Calloway

as Self

Shaggy

as Self

50 Cent

as Self (archive footage)

Aaliyah

as Self (archive footage)

Yasiin Bey

as Self (archive footage)

Queen Latifah

as Self (archive footage)

The Notorious B.I.G.

as Self (archive footage)

Tupac Shakur

as Self (archive footage)

Mary J. Blige

as Self (archive footage)

Common

as Self (archive footage)

Lauryn Hill

as Self (archive footage)

DMX

as Self (archive footage)

Whitney Houston

as Self (archive footage)

Ice Cube

as Self (archive footage)

Ice-T

as Self (archive footage)

Lil' Kim

as Self (archive footage)

LL Cool J

as Self (archive footage)

Ludacris

as Self (archive footage)

Method Man

as Self (archive footage)

Da Brat

as Self (archive footage)

Ye

as Self (archive footage)

Foxy Brown

as Self (archive footage)

Bushwick Bill

as Self (archive footage)

Sandra 'Pepa' Denton

as Self (archive footage)

Doug E. Fresh

as Self (archive footage)

Will Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Beyoncé

as Self (archive footage)

Kelly Rowland

as Self (archive footage)

Michelle Williams

as Self (archive footage)

Tracy Morgan

as Self (archive footage)

Jamie Foxx

as Self (archive footage)

Chuck Schumer

as Self

Michael Bivins

as Self

Da Brat

as Self

Fred Buggs

as Self

Chuck Chillout

as Self

Billy Danze

as Self

Ray Dejon

as Self

Ed Dixon

as Self

Willie Geist

as Self

Ghostface Killah

as Self

Sabrina Gray

as Self

Hakeem Jeffries

as Self

Daymond John

as Self

Yvonne M. Lee

as Self

Lionel C. Martin

as Self

Bryan McDaniels

as Self

Evelyn McDaniels

as Self

Kimberly McDaniels-Richardson

as Self

Ernie Paniccioli

as Self

Large Professor

as Self

Raekwon

as Self

Rakim

as Self

Crazy Sam

as Self

Roxanne Shanté

as Self

General Steele

as Self

Mike Tyson

as Self

Korey Wise

as Self

Luther Campbell

as Self

Director

Nas