Starring
Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones

Nick Cannon stars as Devon Miles, a young, gifted hip-hop drummer from Harlem, who wins a full music scholarship to Atlanta A&T University with the hopes of gaining a spot as a drummer on the school's renowned marching band drumline. Devon, sporting a talent that is both raw and undisciplined, has one problem: he marches to the beat of his own drum.

Surmounting overwhelming odds, he snares a spot as a starter, much to the disdain of a resentful senior class band member, Sean Taylor (Leonard Roberts), who dismisses the freshman's skills as bogus. When Taylor discovers something amiss about Devon's abilities, he alerts Dr Lee (Orlando Jones), the school's demanding, dedicated band director, who suspects that the upstart talent may have duped the school into awarding him his scholarship.

That situation threatens not only Devon's future at the school but, more immediately, his spot on the band's drumline just before the heralded Big Southern Classic, one of the region's most popular musical competitions, spotlighting some of the area's best college bands and the winner-take-all jackpot of $100,000 for the school.

Directed by
Charles Stone III