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There has been no shortage of hip-hop star birth narratives hitting screens in recent years, but like hip-hop itself for most of its history, there hasn't always been much room for stories. women. Tracing a teenage girl's complicated ascent through the battle rap circuit to the even more complicated heights of viral stardom, Sanaa Lathan's "On the Come Up" provides a welcome exception to this rule, but luckily it has a lot more to it. your favor than just that. As frank and tough as it is warm and sweet, "On the Come Up" is a hugely promising debut from the actor-turned-director. Sixteen-year-old Bri (Jamila C. Gray) is already a talented rapper when we first meet her in her fictional Garden Heights neighborhood, and she's already been through a lifetime of turmoil. Her father was a legendary local MC named Lawless, who was killed just as her career was starting to take off. She spent part of her childhood away from her mother (Lathan) as she battled...