The untold story of the world’s longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels’ archives — amassed over nearly 40 years — reveal the show’s importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.

An ambitious girl named Fay Mulberry (Milira) desperately longs to get out of the drug-infested and violence-ridden New York neighborhood in which she lives. Bright and gifted with promise for a successful future, Fay finds her college hopes dashed when she starts to spend time with a charming drug dealer (Robert Laney) and is soon faced with a catastrophic turn of events that could forever impede her attempts at success.