Rap World

Rap World (2024)

No place better. Ready for whatever.

In 2009, four friends living in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, document their attempt to record a rap album over the course of one eventful night.

Date of release
2024-04-07
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (17)
Runtime
56m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
Danny Scharar, Conner O'Malley

Casting

Interesting facts

Rap World is a 2024 American mockumentary film written and directed by Conner O'Malley and Danny Scharar. Starring O'Malley, Jack Bensinger, and Eric Rahill. The film is set in 2009 in suburban Pennsylvania and focuses on three friends attempting to record an amateur hip-hop album in one night. Harris Mayersohn and Meryl Faye Crock produced it through the company Dogma 3000.

Production

During the COVID-19 pandemic, co-writer Conner O'Malley and cast member Jack Bensinger conceived the idea for the film based on old footage of teenagers playing Guitar Hero they found on a DV camera O'Malley purchased in 2018 for his short film Teens Save the Mall.

Production began in October 2020. The team originally planned to film the content, set in 2003, over one weekend and upload it in thirty-second segments to YouTube with default serialized file names "like 'JPEG_98764'". After initial dissatisfaction with the footage, the project was shelved for six months. Bensinger later edited the footage into a ten-minute short, which inspired the production team to turn the concept into a feature film.

Alternative rock musician Mikal Cronin provided the music for the film. Some of the songs performed by the rappers in the movie were written by the actors on-set. O'Malley stated that his character's lyricism is based on themes of political hip-hop and conspiracy theories:

My character is really into Immortal Technique and really wants to kind of have conscious conspiratorial raps. “They're gonna put barcodes on everybody's necks”-type conspiracies. That was quite easy to tap into.

Some of the lyrics performed by Bensinger in the movie were free-styled.

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