BEEF II, Peter Spirer 2004

Moods switching from love and respect to hate and contempt. Playful rivalry within an art form to rivalry which has nothing to do with art or wordplays but with personality and ego on the one hand, and with business, with money producing greed and jealousy destroying any sympathy, on the other hand.
Although BEEF II opens up with a storyline chronologically belonging to BEEF — the Roxanne incident in which one song caused like 50 response songs because wannabe stars thought this could be a way up — it than continues the journey towards the present in the same flow like the first one, in a kind of rap album dramaturgy: hook -> “bla bla vs. bla bla” -> montage of off-narrator, on-interviews in environments supposedly being the hood of the interviewed mostly in a lo-fi handheld style to make it seem as real as it can get, montages with rap songs on the soundtrack and images on the video tracks -> short summary -> hook to the next beef. That´s manipulative because there is obviously a lot getting lost down the road and the arrangement makes up its own relationship logic between the events, and that´s easy and fun to watch.
It´s never boring, it´s “life without the boring parts”. Sometimes I need those boring party though, to relax and to keep it not real but realistic. At least in documentaries