'Something from Nothing' a labour of love for Ice-T

“I felt I really had to do this film because rap music saved my life,” explains Ice-T, narrator and co-director of this glossy documentary which celebrates the men and women who propelled the lyrical art form into the musical mainstream.

Almost 50 interview subjects are shoe-horned into 111 minutes, from old skool legend Grandmaster Caz, who surmises: “Hip hop didn’t invent anything, hip hop re-invented everything!” to a typically chilled Snoop Dogg, claiming to get his creative juices flowing by smoking “a bit of weed” and surrounding himself with beautiful women.