“Breed & Bootleg: Legends of Flint Rap Music” is an hour-long film about the birth of rap music in the city in the early 1990s, beginning with the late MC Breed, known as the first commercially successful rap artist in the Midwest. “Ain’t No Future in Yo Frontin,’” a song by MC Breed and the DFC (Da Flint Crew), reached the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for more than six months, longer than any other song at the time. Meanwhile, the Dayton Family made up of Ira "Bootleg" Dorsey, Raheen "Shoestring" Peterson and Matt "Backstabba" Hinkle, started climbing the charts with their gangsta-genre lyrics.

The film begins and ends with a Talent Show in Flint and in the middle traces the roots of hip hop back to talent shows held in high schools throughout the city. The Golden Age of rap music in Flint was the early 1990s, but the film shows that like the city of Flint that is going through a rejuvenation, music grows and Flint remains a font of rap music.

Another theme of the film is the friendship between Breed and Bootleg and the health issues each have suffered. They collaborated and remained close until Breed’s death in Ypsilanti on November 22, 2008 when he died of kidney failure. MC Breed was only 37. In 2013, Bootleg had a heart attack, which led to a heart transplant months later. He is also on kidney dialysis three times a week, something Breed had refused.

When a rough cut was screened in early October 2019 to the family of MC Breed and Ira “Bootleg” Dorsey, one suggestion gained traction in the audience: Interviewing famous rap artists who MC Breed influenced. Those artists were interviewed and the final cut of the film will debut in Dec 2020 during the Detroit Free Press’ Virtual Freep Film Festival.

Since its debut, the film has been screened virtually a dozen times including the Saginaw Valley State University's Hip Hop Film Festival and Exhibit, Genesee District Library, East Lansing Public Library and other international festivals. The film also received best international documentary at a couple of festivals and is scheduled to screen in May 2021 at the Flint Institute of Arts and in person in the fall. Those who scheduled panel report that the screening has set record attendance of 100+ or more attendees.