The Great Hip Hop Hoax

The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Directed byJeanie Finlay
StarringGavin Bain
Billy Boyd
Release date
  • 6 September 2013 (2013-09-06)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a documentary film by Jeanie Finlay about a Scottish hip-hop duo called Silibil N' Brains, who pretended to be Americans to secure a £250,000 record deal with Sony. The film premiered at South by Southwest and was later shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, before a national theatrical release in Scotland and broadcasts on BBC Two Scotland, BBC Four, and Danish station DR2. It was pitched at Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket in 2008.