Cert 15
93 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language and drug misuse
I have never imagined the music industry to be run on particularly high principles.
Yet, in what I believed to be the murky world of hip-hop, there is a record label owner who has stood his ground.
Peanut Butter Wolf (or Chris to those who know him) has been running Stonesthrow Records since the 1980s.
And it remains the company which will give a chance to acts who are often turned down many times by other labels.
Jeff Broadway's film weaves together rare concert footage as well as home movies of music stars in their formative times and testimonials from Wolf's peers, friends and celebrities such as Kanye West, Common and Mayer Hawthorne.
It follows the story of Wolf from his childhood when he first started becoming interested in being a DJ through to today.
It has been far from a smooth path as he has encountered terrible tragedy as well as the crash in the music industry which saw big retail chains such as Virgin disappear from the high street.
Through it all Wolf has retained his low-key coolness, caring less about making big bucks and more about promoting artists who he believes deserve a platform.
This philosophy has, over the years, seen him diversify from hip hop into some very strange music which, even he admits, doesn't sell.
I know very little about the Los Angeles underground music scene and therefore found Broadway's documentary rather enlightening.
And I can now see why people were queuing up to praise the mild-mannered and modest Peanut Butter Wolf.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 7/10