John Singleton was the first major Hollywood voice that became without delay of the hip-hop era. Born in 1968, the filmmaker came of age simply as hip-hop came to the fore, and grew up towards a backdrop of crack, gangs and Ronald Reagan. It's no shock that so a whole lot of Singleton's filmography prominently connects with era-defining track and artists. His death at age fifty one is tragic and heartbreaking, and he leaves at the back of a legacy that reshaped so much of modern familiar way of life. For Singleton, the connections between tune and the videos had been biological, and he drafted a blueprint that so many would comply with -- each in the 1990s and past. Over the course of his Oscar-nominated profession, John Singleton would direct recording artists like Tupac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Tone Loc, Mark Wahlberg, Snoop Dogg, Tyrese Gibson and Andre 3000 in a variety of dramatic roles. for so lots of these artists-grew to become-thespians, Sing