The New York Times

‘Above the Rim,’ a 1994 basketball movie, paints a different picture 30 years later

Leon Robinson, the award-winning actor who simply goes by Leon, receives photos every year of fans dressed as one of his characters for Halloween. Leon, who has made appearances in “The Five ...
AOL

Above the Rim at 30: Warren G and More on Making Hip-Hop’s Best Film Soundtrack

Before Black Panther, Bad Boys II, or 8 Mile released original soundtracks of classic hip-hop, there was Above the Rim. The influential basketball film, released in March 1994 and starring the ...
AllHipHop

Rare Tupac Shakur Autographed Movie Script Heading To Auction

A rare script signed by Tupac Shakur from the 1994 film *Above the Rim* is set to be auctioned in Los Angeles on November 21, offering collectors a part of Hip-Hop and Hollywood history. A rare ...
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Tupac Shakur’s Autographed Above The Rim Script Up for Auction

Nate D. Sander Auctions currently has a piece of hip-hop-related motion-picture history listed on its site, in the form of multiple pages of Tupac Shakur's signed script from the 1994 film Above The ...
The Grio

Barry Michael Cooper, writer of Harlem-trilogy ‘New Jack City,’ ‘Sugar Hill,’ and ‘Above The Rim’ passes away at 66

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” “Sugar ...