Rap World

Rap World is a 2024 American mockumentary film written and directed by Conner O'Malley and Danny Scharar.

Starring O'Malley, Jack Bensinger, and Eric Rahill, the film is set in 2009 in suburban Pennsylvania and focuses on three friends attempting to record an amateur hip-hop album in one night.

Matt apologizes to Jason and invites him to join the project, forming a rap group known as the Coolbaugh Crew.

After technical difficulties hamper the Coolbaugh Crew's first attempt to record, they visit Casey's cousin, Serj, in search of more marijuana.

At the funeral, Matt's sister begins to argue with his ex-wife during her eulogy and his friends provide awkward tributes to him.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, co-writer Conner O'Malley and cast member Jack Bensinger conceived the idea for the film based on old footage of teenagers playing Guitar Hero they found on a DV camera O'Malley purchased in 2018 for his short film Teens Save the Mall.

Bensinger stated that various forms of battle rap media such as 8 Mile, the Scribble Jam festival, and the King of the Dot league inspired the decision to make a movie about white rappers.

The team originally planned to film the content, set in 2003, over one weekend and upload it in thirty-second segments to YouTube with default serialized file names "like 'JPEG_98764'".

Bensinger later edited the footage into a ten-minute short, which inspired the production team to turn the concept into a feature film.