The video for Lil Mama's song "Lipgloss" has inspired the head of Screen Gems studio to remake Jane Austen's classic novel "Emma" as a hip hop musical.      

Clint Culpepper, the studio's president, said he happened to see the teen rapper's clip set in an urban high school and a light bulb went off.       

Austen's original story, which revolves around a stepbrother and stepsister, also inspired the Alicia Silverstone film "Clueless," which was set in a suburban Southern California high school.        

"Now it's urban," Culpepper told Variety. "This is the way it should be re-imagined in the new millennium."

The Screen Gems version will be renamed "Emme," take place at an inner-city high school and include at least 15 song and dance numbers. "Menace II Society" screenwriter Tyger Williams penned the screenplay for producers Chris Bender and J.C. Spink.