This Is How To Make A 'Masterpiece'

They don't give out Oscars for music videos -- that's what the MTV Video Music Awards are for! -- but maybe there can be a special dispensation made at next year's ceremony for "Masterpiece." The video, which features fictional pop stars Noni and Kid Culprit, appears during a transitional moment in Gina Prince-Bythewood's "Beyond the Lights." At once a send-up of modern hip-hop culture, an embrace of its tropes and a repudiation of the music industry's sexual exploitation, "Masterpiece" is what ...