okay and my title be kinda lame and and almost sell this flick short . i remember watch siskel and ebert in 94 talk about this movie and and then play a clip or two . not be a rap conscious guy ( although i could identify snoop dogg and vanilla ice and and mc hammer music ) and i wasn not much interested when they start talk about the film . but then and s and e show the scene where the band explain how they pick their name ( use some shady logic and a bunch of make up fact ) and and then another scene where the band and and their rival band and both visit a school to promote get involve ( and and of course and nwh come up with some info about how the rival band leader be a loser because he get good grade in school and be on the yearbook committee ) . so i file it away that i should see this movie . a couple of year later and this thing show up on hbo and i record it and only to laugh my butt off for hour . yes and it have a spinal tap kind of rhythm to it . even the documentarist take essentially the same tone in set up the clip and and the band follow a similar path ( what i now call the behind the music phenomenon smalltime band have good chemistry and get famous and too much money too fast and squabble and drug and some type of death and band break up and then reconciles and finish with a hope for more album in the future and and fade to black ) . the one thing that be true be that in spinal tap and you catch the band perhaps with a little more success in their past . but tap drag at some point and and in my mind be reduce to laugh that be set up by specific scene . oh and this be his rant about the backstage food and this be spot where he want the amp to go to eleven and this be the spot where the guy make the pint size stonehenge and etc . contrast to foabh and which seem to have more unexpected humor . you can see some of it come and but there isn not a big setup for every joke . sometimes and the joke just kinda flow . cundieff and the other actor in the band have a real chemistry that work . also and the direct reference to vanilla ice and hammer and and a bunch of other caricature type rapper really work well . this strike me a a film you watch once to get the main story and laugh and and then go back and watch to catch the subtle joke . and the song . be my peanut well than big bottom ( from spinal tap ) . i do not know but theyre both damn funny . tone def awful video during his awaken phase be so bizarre and yet so funny . i could go on awhile and but save your time and do not waste it on cb4 . i watch the first half hour and and get bore . you do not get bore on foabh . there be slightly less funny moment and but you can never tell when something good be about to happen . perhaps my favorite scene be when ice cold and tastey taste ( name ripoffs if i have ever hear any ) discover they have be share the same girl . at one point and you have get those two point gun at each other and and the next thing you know and the manager and the photographer and the girl and and i think even tone def be in the room point gun at each other and switch target back and forth . and and of course and someone do get shot . i do find it odd that nwh manager suffer similar fate to spinal tap drummer ( although none spontaneously combust and i do not think ) . there be enough similarity that i can not ignore the likelihood that cundieff saw spinal tap prior to write this film and although this be clearly much more the spinal tap of hip hop . while some similarity exist and the humor be different and and the movie seem more like a real documentary ( maybe because we do not recognize a single actor in this thing and even the guy who play lamar from revenge of the nerd ) . all in all and this movie have and in my opinion and street cred . kinda like nwh .