In a practically all-white Iowa town, Flip visions of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and also Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror as well as with his 2 pals, James and also Trevor. He chats Black slang, he dresses Black. He's additionally a wannabe pusher, marketing flour as drug. As well as while he talks about "maintaining it genuine," he hardly notifications real life around him: his papa's been laid off, his mom utilizes Food Stamps, his partner is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his close friends (among the town's few Black kids) is preparing for university, and also, on a vacation to Chicago to shop medicines, the polices shoot actual bullets. What will it consider Flip to get genuine?