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With a mixture of interviews with the perpetrators and their family and friends, footage of their exploits, and some animation to fill the gaps, the great hip hop hoax presents us with billy boyd and gavin bains journey from rejection to elation and ultimately around to the implosion of their once tight friendship. Two scottish boys prove that you dont need to be authentic music artists to be successful, but its tricky to live a lie. Director jeanie finlay 20 the great hip hop hoax follows a rap duo from dundee in scotland who fabricate an elaborate story to secure a record deal. The great hip hop hoax is a classic cautionary tale of fake it til you make it that shows just how far one little white lie can take a pair of blokes from arbroath.
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