TY - SER
KW - rap music
KW - real estate development
KW - resistance to real estate development
KW - Black Americans
AU - Adam Friedman
AU - Robert J. Litz
AB - Aspiring rapper John “Rappin’” Hood (Mario Van Peebles) tries to save his blighted, North Side neighborhood from a greedy developer.
C1 - 1980s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Manchester; Central Northside (Mexican War Streets); Mount Washington
C4 - Black; Comedy
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - The movie was filmed in Pittsburgh's Manchester, Mt. Washington, Downtown, and Strip District neighborhoods.

The film also stars Tasia Valenza and Charles Flohe. Eriq La Salle has a supporting role and Ice-T makes an uncredited appearance.
N2 - Aspiring rapper John “Rappin’” Hood (Mario Van Peebles) tries to save his blighted, North Side neighborhood from a greedy developer.
PY - 1985
RN - Adam Friedman is a producer, director, and writer with over 30 years of experience in film and television. Robert J. Litz (1950-2012), born in Cleveland and educated at Boston University and Harvard, was a playwright who also wrote and produced television.
TI - Rappin'
ER -