Streets Is Watching (film)

Streets Is Watching
10th Anniversary DVD cover
Directed byAbdul Malik Abbott
Written byAbdul Malik Abbott
Damon Dash
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter
Produced bySchavaria Reeves
StarringJay-Z
CinematographyAbdul Malik Abbott
Henry Adebonojo
Joaquín Baca-Asay
Charles Houston
Edited byAbdul Malik Abbott
Production
companies
Blue Music Productions
CMO Productions
Roc-A-Fella Films
Distributed byPolyGram Video
Universal Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1998 (1998-05-12)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Streets Is Watching is a 1998 American musical drama film in which Jay-Z composes a film with many of his unreleased music videos tied into a storyline. The film takes place in Jay-Z's old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The film uses transitional skits between music from Jay-Z's albums Reasonable Doubt and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1.[1] The film is noteworthy because it contains Jay-Z's first two videos, "In My Lifetime" and "I Can't Get Wit That", both released without a major label contract. Each skit is meant to accompany the music it precedes. The same setting or set of the videos are also the same set for the correlating skit.