'The Hip Hop Project' Review

Originally published on Cinematical, this review was written during the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, when the documentary was known as 'Word.Life.'

Give a man an outlet for expression, and you feed his inspiration for a day. Teach a man to express himself, and you feed his inspiration for a lifetime.

In this powerful and, if we're lucky, influential documentary, a young man named Chris Rolle, aka Kazi, mentors a group of teens in a program called The Hip Hop Project (HHP), a division of the New York…