These days, Dreamhampton doesn't consider herself a listener of hip-hop.

She says she tapped out.

It did tap out.

But by tapping out, I mean, I've never listened to Kanye West's album.

I've never listened to a Drake album.

I've never listened to a Kendrick album.

And so I will accept...

So I won't be asking you about the beef, apparently.

Exactly. I'm like, one of them lives in Toronto and the other one lives in L.A.

And something's happening.

Seriously.

That's okay.

She's done her time.

Now this is footage of the late Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls.

And it's not footage from the audience. It's footage

from the stage, because Dreamhampton was there. She started out a photo editor at The Source

magazine when she was a 19-year-old film student at NYU. But over the next few years, she would

document the rise of a generation of artists whose names came to

represent the genre's golden age in the early 1990s. It's before they become personas and sometimes

before they become caricatures. It's before the fatal standoff that will change hip-hop forever

between Tupac and Biggie. And it's while we're all trying to figure ourselves out.

DREAM became a filmmaker, making docs about trans victims of violence, about climate change,

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