Carmen: A Hip Hopera

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Carmen: A Hip Hopera is a 2001 made-for-TV musical directed by Robert Townsend and produced for MTV. The film features a slew of African-American musicians including Beyonc¨ Knowles, Mos Def, Rah Digga, Wyclef Jean, Mekhi Phifer, Da Brat, Joy Bryant, Jermaine Dupri and Lil' Bow Wow. Carmen Brown is an actress who causes trouble wherever she goes, getting entangled with Derek Hill, fiance to to Caela. One night, Carmen quarrels with a jealous woman. Derek's superior, Lieutenant Miller, orders him to bring Carmen in. Carmen fails to seduce Hill, but he lets her visit him so she can change clothes. After changing into some lingerie, she wins Hill over. Hill wakes in the morning, with Carmen gone, with Caela and his crooked cop of a superior arresting him. Caela leaves Hill.