The Good Life Cafe was a health food market and cafe in
Los Angeles, California, known for its
open mic nights that helped the 1990s Los Angeles
alternative hip hop movement flourish. In 2008, director
Ava DuVernay, who had performed at the cafe with the
Figures of Speech hip hop group, released a documentary about the cafe,
This Is The Life. The film featured a number of hip hop artists discussing the importance of the Good Life Cafe to themselves and the hip hop scene. The Cafe was open from 1989 to 1999.