| Grass Is Greener | |
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| Directed by | Fab Five Freddy |
| Starring | Snoop Dogg B-Real |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 1 hour, 37 minutes |
| Country | U.S. |
| Language | English |
Grass Is Greener is a documentary film about cannabis, which premiered on Netflix on April 20, 2019. [1]
Grass Is Greener follows hip hop legend Fab Five Freddy as he uncovers the history of cannabis prohibition in the United States. He interviews many other popular artists, such as Snoop Dogg and B-Real from Cypress Hill, as well as attorneys, influencers, and people who were personally affected by drug convictions. [2]
The timeline starts in the 1920s jazz era where Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday were all targets under racist policies; and moves into the modern era where cannabis is a booming industry with an uncertain future.
Fred Brathwaite, more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer. He is considered one of the architects of the street art movement. Freddy emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a graffiti artist. He was the bridge between the burgeoning uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. He was immortalized in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps.
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