Fear of a Black Hat
“The First Drive-By Comedy”
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
Genres
Comedy, Music
Studio
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Language
en
Status
Released
How Fear of a Black Hat performed
Budget
$1.0M
Worldwide Gross
$233,824
Gross Profit
−$766,176
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$34K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Tasty Taste
Larry B. Scott
Tasty Taste
Tone Def
Mark Christopher Lawrence
Tone Def
Ice Cold
Rusty Cundieff
Ice Cold
Nina Blackburn
Kasi Lemmons
Nina Blackburn
Backstage Manager 1
G. Smokey Campbell
Backstage Manager 1
Jam Boy 1
Faizon Love
Jam Boy 1
Jam Boy 2
Deezer D
Jam Boy 2
Vanilla Sherbet
Devin Kamin
Vanilla Sherbet
Daryll in Charge
Don Reed
Daryll in Charge
Geoffrey Lennox
Barry Shabaka Henley
Geoffrey Lennox
Re-Re
Penny Johnson Jerald
Re-Re
Cheryl C.
Rose Jackson
Cheryl C.
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