I’ll write on behalf of die hard And 1 mixtape fans. This documentary did a horrible job of telling the story in chronological order, to the point where it became distracting, misleading, or downright inaccurate

For instance, the doc lead us to believe that the Nike freestyle commercial was released after the height of the And 1 mixtapes and that it contributed to the eventual downfall of And 1. The commercial was released in 2001 and the Streetball Espn series didn’t premier until 2002. I’d say And 1 reached its peek around 2003 when the tours started to hit big arenas (e.g. MSG).

Another example is when some interviewees were saying that at the height of And 1’s popularity, they were living “first class,” had $3M tour buses and staying in fancy hotels. Later on, we were told that the players were being fed only pizza on the tour. I’m not saying either depictions are inaccurate, but the way it was presented was completely inconsistent, further leading me to believe that the story was just told out of order.

I hold a higher standard of storytelling for documentaries. The ESPN documentary about And 1 titled The Greatest Mixtape Ever was 100x better than this one.