The Best Music Documentaries Ever: Michael Rapaport Picks His Favorites

The Best Music Documentaries Ever

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Michael Rapaport clearly loves music. It's evident in every moment of his documentary, "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest," the actor's directing debut about the influential hip-hop group. The film includes the rift that divided the Tribe as well as the tensions that linger today, but a deep admiration for the music itself shines through.

So with the Grammy Awards on Sunday, where "Beats, Rhymes & Life" is nominated for best long form music video, we asked Rapaport to take over the Five Most space to pick his favorite music documentaries. (The film, which came out theatrically last summer, also won top documentary honors from the Producers Guild of America this year.) But since he's so enthusiastic – and was so nice to join us this week – we let him pick six, in order of preference and in his own words:

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