An NYU film student when she began shooting in 1993, dream hampton was already a provocative music journalist and critic with access to rap’s emerging superstars including her neighbor The Notorious BIG, Snoop, Mobb Deep and Method Man from Wu-Tang. The film takes viewers inside the studio for the making of landmark albums by rap’s greatest voices. This archive sat in storage for three decades and is a largely vérité journey. hampton’s narration, added 30 years later, is actually text from articles published in the early 90s.