It Was All A Dream

(2024)

Editor & Co-Producer

The year is 1993 and hip-hop is primed for its eventual global takeover. Armed with a camera and a front-row seat is provocative music journalist dream hampton.

Constructed from hampton’s personal archive, It Was All a Dream is a visual memoir reflecting on the dawn of the golden era of hip-hop. It takes viewers inside the studio with intimate access to some of rap’s most celebrated minds, including hampton’s neighbor The Notorious BIG, Mobb Deep, Guru, Onyx, Cypress Hill and many more. hampton not only provides insight to this era of hip-hop but also firmly establishes her place in its story.

"It’s unlike almost any popular depiction of hip-hop before it." - Rolling Stone

"A level of access to some of rap’s biggest stars that would be inconceivable today." - Vulture

"Shows the important, imperfect, initial seed-sowing of the deeper questions we’re still tilling as a hip-hop culture today." - NPR

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