Streets Is Watching | |
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Directed by | Abdul Malik Abbott |
Written by | Abdul Malik Abbott Damon Dash Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter |
Produced by | Schavaria Reeves |
Starring | Jay-Z |
Cinematography | Abdul Malik Abbott Henry Adebonojo Joaquín Baca-Asay Charles Houston |
Edited by | Abdul Malik Abbott |
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Distributed by | PolyGram Video Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.