Actor/producer/director Michael Rappaport made a name for himself in Hollywood for his signature tough-guy New York accent but he’s also known in hip-hop circles as a die hard fan trying to give artists their proper due. In this interview Rappaport gives a little more detail about his A Tribe Called Quest documentary set for 2010. Q-Tip originally talked about it back in 2008.

“I think this is gonna be the first motion picture documentary done on a hip-hop group, which is an honor,” he said. “…Nas spoke to me a while ago and was like, ‘I want to shoot a documentary on you dudes.’ Michael Rapaport saw us perform in LA and said the same thing, so they combined forces. They basically are shooting it. They got backstage footage. They got old archive stuff. They’ve been interviewing everybody.”

Apparently they even have footage of Phife as they follow him into surgery. Not sure I want to be THAT close to ATCQ but I’m definitely looking forward to this one. Via: XXL