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Streets Is Watching
10th Anniversary DVD cover
Directed by	Abdul Malik Abbott
Written by	Abdul Malik Abbott Damon Dash Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter
Produced by	Schavaria Reeves
Starring	Jay-Z
Cinematography	Abdul Malik Abbott Henry Adebonojo Joaquín Baca-Asay Charles Houston
Edited by	Abdul Malik Abbott
Production companies	Blue Music Productions CMO Productions Roc-A-Fella Films
Distributed by	PolyGram Video Universal Pictures
Release date	May 12, 1998 (1998-05-12)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Streets Is Watching is a 1998 American musical drama film in which Jay-Z composes a film with many of his unreleased music videos tied into a storyline. The film takes place in Jay-Z's old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The film uses transitional skits between music from Jay-Z's albums Reasonable Doubt and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. The film is noteworthy because it contains Jay-Z's first two videos, "In My Lifetime" and "I Can't Get Wit That", both released without a major label contract. Each skit is meant to accompany the music it precedes. The same setting or set of the videos are also the same set for the correlating skit.

Soundtrack

• Streets Is Watching (soundtrack)

See also

• Moonwalker, a film by Michael Jackson that also compiles music videos into a continuous film.

References

1. Streets Is Watching (1998) - Movies, The New York Times

External links

• Streets Is Watching at IMDb

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