The ego trip crew is back. The creative collective behind endeavors like the Big Book of Rap Lists and Big Book of Racism, as well as Vh1 shows the White Rapper Show and Miss Rap Supreme, are now curating a monthly documentary screening series called "Under The Influence of ego trip." The first installment is tomorrow, January 28th, at the Maysles Institute cinema in Harlem, where there will be two films screened- director Gary Weiss' 80 Blocks From Tiffany's (1979) and director Steven Goodman's Shotgun (1982).

Complex magazine spoke to ego trip regarding the films....

On 80 Blocks from Tiffany's

"For anyone who thinks the gangs of '70s New York were accurately represented by the face-painted, lumber hugging "Baseball Furies," or overall-wearing, rollerskater-led "Punks," you urgently need to familiarize your uncivilized self with 80 Blocks From Tiffany's. It's a stupendous chronicle of the pre-hip-hop South Bronx and the real life characters of two of the area's most notorious "families"-the Savage Skulls and Savage Nomads."

On Shotgun,

"It started out as a chronicle of the Savage Riders, but changed focus when one of the gang's members (whom the film is named after) encountered some serious criminal charges. This movie is so raw it actually makes 80 Blocks look like The Warriors. Shot on grainy, stark B&W video, and incorporating TV news reports and police video, there isn't a hint of romance in its portrayal of gang life and its effects on a ravaged community. But it's a powerful document and the images it serves up stay with you (from a tatted-up Rider working his day job on a forklift; to outraged tenants left without running water after Shotgun and co. ransack a building's copper pipes for quick cash; to a grieving parent alone in her home)."

Purchase tickets for tomorrow's screenings HERE. More info on the film series below.