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The untold story of the world’s longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels’ archives — amassed over nearly 40 years — reveal the show’s importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.

Music Documentary

Nas

(Self)

Ralph McDaniels

(Self)

Wendy Williams

(Self)

P. Diddy

(Self)

Jay-Z

(Self)

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

(Self)

Fat Joe

(Self)

Sway Calloway

(Self)

Shaggy

(Self)

50 Cent

(Self (archive footage))

Aaliyah

(Self (archive footage))

Yasiin Bey

(Self (archive footage))

Queen Latifah

(Self (archive footage))

The Notorious B.I.G.

(Self (archive footage))

Tupac Shakur

(Self (archive footage))

Mary J. Blige

(Self (archive footage))

Common

(Self (archive footage))

Lauryn Hill

(Self (archive footage))

DMX

(Self (archive footage))

Whitney Houston

(Self (archive footage))

Ice Cube

(Self (archive footage))

Ice-T

(Self (archive footage))

Lil' Kim

(Self (archive footage))

LL Cool J

(Self (archive footage))

Ludacris

(Self (archive footage))

Method Man

(Self (archive footage))

Da Brat

(Self (archive footage))

Kanye West

(Self (archive footage))

Foxy Brown

(Self (archive footage))

Bushwick Bill

(Self (archive footage))

Sandra 'Pepa' Denton

(Self (archive footage))

Doug E. Fresh

(Self (archive footage))

Will Smith

(Self (archive footage))

Beyoncé

(Self (archive footage))

Kelly Rowland

(Self (archive footage))

Michelle Williams

(Self (archive footage))

Tracy Morgan

(Self (archive footage))

Jamie Foxx

(Self (archive footage))

Chuck Schumer

(Self)

Michael Bivins

(Self)

Da Brat

(Self)

Fred Buggs

(Self)

Chuck Chillout

(Self)

Billy Danze

(Self)

Ray Dejon

(Self)

Ed Dixon

(Self)

Willie Geist

(Self)

Ghostface Killah

(Self)

Sabrina Gray

(Self)

Hakeem Jeffries

(Self)

Daymond John

(Self)

Yvonne M. Lee

(Self)

Lionel C. Martin

(Self)

Bryan McDaniels

(Self)

Evelyn McDaniels

(Self)

Kimberly McDaniels-Richardson

(Self)

Ernie Paniccioli

(Self)

Large Professor

(Self)

Raekwon

(Self)

Rakim

(Self)

Crazy Sam

(Self)

Roxanne Shanté

(Self)

General Steele

(Self)

Mike Tyson

(Self)

Korey Wise

(Self)

Luther Campbell

(Self)