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"&lt;p&gt;Rappers in movies are doing fine &amp;#x2013; Ice Cube &lt;em&gt;(Boyz n the Hood),&lt;/em&gt; Ice-T &lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/new-jack-city-19910308\"&gt;New Jack City&lt;/a&gt;),&lt;/em&gt; Tupac Shakur &lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/above-the-rim-20010206\"&gt;Above the Rim&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/em&gt; Movies about rap are another story &amp;#x2013; remember &lt;em&gt;CB4?&lt;/em&gt; At the Sundance Festival, where &lt;em&gt;Fly by Night&lt;/em&gt; inexplicably won the Filmmaker&amp;apos;s Trophy, some audiences expressed indignation that the film&amp;apos;s director, Steve Gomer, and screenwriter, Todd Graff, were white. &lt;em&gt;Fly&lt;/em&gt; has enough problems without bringing up race. It&amp;apos;s an unnervingly slick package.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;The band&amp;apos;s scratch master, Kool Kayam (Darryl &amp;quot;Chill&amp;quot; Mitchell), listens while his cousin Rich (Jeffrey D. Sams) fights with &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; (Rich Brice) to define the band&amp;apos;s sound. Rich raps soft, &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; raps angry. And so a complex issue is reduced to an either-or TV-movie clich&amp;#xE9; &amp;#x2013; solution guaranteed before the last commercial.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Graff, who co-stars as a brutal junkie, acts better than he writes. His script for &lt;em&gt;Fly&lt;/em&gt; belongs to the same genre as his scripts for &lt;em&gt;Used People&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Angie:&lt;/em&gt; soap opera. The talented cast, including female rapper MC Lyte as Rich&amp;apos;s long-suffering wife, are helpless against the tide of bubbles. The actors and the subject deserved better.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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