G (2002)
Directed by Christopher Scott Cherot
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.
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Rarely included in official “Gatsby” inventories, 2002’s quite curious “G” found an analog for Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age in the world of contemporary music’s hip-hop elite, long before Luhrmann saw fit to enlist Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter as a collaborator on his film’s cheerfully anachronistic soundtrack.
And the less said about G, the 2002 “hip-hop Gatsby” from director Christopher Scott Cherot, the better.
"G," by Christopher Scott Cherot, is being billed as a modern-day hip-hop version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby."
There’s the all-black Gatsby (2002’s risible G) and the shockingly seductive 2010 stage production (Gatz) that grows out of one man reading the entire novel aloud at work.