avon barksdale
i want my corners
looks pretty good 
So nas got a new series coming out and no love
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Musical aspect scares me.
But I'm in
But I'm in
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
I'll watch....it use to be really expensive to shoot actual movies in New York, but they have or will be opening up like 3 new large studios (Staten, Queens, the Bronx). I notice the last few Netflix series I've seen appeared like they were actually filmed in or around the city, when 10.years ago they would be using Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, or even downtown L.A. for street shots depicting the city.
Anyway, I'll watch.
Anyway, I'll watch.
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I'll check this out
Piff Perkins
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Definitely gonna check it out. Grandmaster Flash is also consulting the show, and Nas wrote some rhymes that will be used by characters in it.
i thought he was getting one of those fake Exec Producer titles but it seems he was heavily involved in the show.
Baz Luhram is involved so this is going to be style over substance and have a bit of cheesiness to it
but it should be an entertaining enough show.
Baz Luhram is involved so this is going to be style over substance and have a bit of cheesiness to it
but it should be an entertaining enough show.
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The Posterchild for "real hip hop" is finally about to tell stories about it's origins n becominz.
I wonder if the irony of that is going to be more impressive than the movie?
I guess I'll see
I wonder if the irony of that is going to be more impressive than the movie?
I guess I'll see
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New York now offers a lot of incentives for film producers that's why the influx of movie and tv projects out here now.
African Peasant
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It looks corny. 
DontEemTry
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Hey, it's a good start nah mean?
shyt looks mad derivative though so I'mma have to pass
shyt looks mad derivative though so I'mma have to pass
Nas Talks Writing Raps for Netflix Hip-Hop Drama 'The Get Down'
"I was just wiping sweat off my forehead every time I would see the rehearsal"
Christopher R. Weingarten
1 hour ago
Nas has been one of rap music's pre-eminent old-school diplomats and cinéastes since he opened his 1994 debut, Illmatic, with a clip of hip-hop flick Wild Style. The multi-platinum rapper has combined his twin passions as executive producer of The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's visually arresting look at the birth of hip-hop culture in New York City. A mix of painstakingly accurate historical details and explosive fantasy, the Netflix series brings the Bronx in 1977 to a life thanks to a group of expert consultants, including Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Kool Herc, Rahiem of the Furious Five and journalist Nelson George. But Nas has taken a weightier role, not only co-producing the project, but writing all of the raps that appear in the series' 13 episode run.
"Working with film is like has been one of the things I always wanted to do since I don't know when," Nas tells Rolling Stone. "Maybe even before rap…. I don't know if I'm an expert, but I'm just a super fan of the old school and the golden era, and so it just felt like I couldn't have asked for a better project to be involved with."
In the first episode, the series' protagonist Ezekiel "Books" Figuero is portrayed as a gifted teen poet and a formidable park rapper played by Justice Smith, and a grown Nineties hip-hop icon portrayed by Hamilton's Daveed Diggs. Nas wrote the lyrics for his introspective poems, battle raps and nostalgic reminisces, providing a throughline for an episode already loaded with super disco breaks and claustrophobic krautrock. Before Part One premieres on August 12th, Nas talked to Rolling Stone about his new role as hip-hop's prestige TV storyteller.
How did you end up connecting with Baz?
I just got a call from them about sitting down. And we sat down and we had a discussion about both of our love of hip-hop music from way back; from Run-DMC to before Run-DMC, and what we both loved about it…. He knew what he wanted from me ... and it was a just a perfect time to get involved. I sat down with him Nelson George, and we had great talks about it. Grandmaster Flash, talked with him. Great talks about New York City and the culture during that time period, what was happening politically, what was happening in Hollywood. Baz had a chart in the office of historical things that happened that year.
You were about four years old in 1977, and it was probably about three or four years later that you started getting seriously into rhymes. So what was the moment that got you into hip-hip culture?
The moment I was born. [Laughs] I heard someone, I think it was Kool Herc, super DJ pioneer of hip-hop from the Bronx, say hip-hop started in 1973. That's the year I was born. So I was actually born with hip-hop. That's my brother, that's my sister, that's my twin. "I am hip hop," like KRS-One said. Music was just a thing that was coming out of the windows in Queensbridge, that was coming out of the park jams.
Rap songs, it's hard to pinpoint the first one, but I have to give a lot of credit to Kurtis Blow with "The Breaks." That record was not just a rap record, it was a great music record. It was like a sign that something new was about to happen, or was happening. Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks," sonically, could match any of the hit records of the time. And of course, the Sugar Hill [Gang's] "Rapper's Delight." At that point in time, Stevie Wonder was beginning to do a little rap, and a lot of music people were starting to do to a little rap thing at the end of their songs. I don't really remember a time where there was not rap music.
Nas Talks Writing Raps for Netflix Hip-Hop Drama 'The Get Down'
"I was just wiping sweat off my forehead every time I would see the rehearsal"
Christopher R. Weingarten
1 hour ago
Nas has been one of rap music's pre-eminent old-school diplomats and cinéastes since he opened his 1994 debut, Illmatic, with a clip of hip-hop flick Wild Style. The multi-platinum rapper has combined his twin passions as executive producer of The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's visually arresting look at the birth of hip-hop culture in New York City. A mix of painstakingly accurate historical details and explosive fantasy, the Netflix series brings the Bronx in 1977 to a life thanks to a group of expert consultants, including Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Kool Herc, Rahiem of the Furious Five and journalist Nelson George. But Nas has taken a weightier role, not only co-producing the project, but writing all of the raps that appear in the series' 13 episode run.
"Working with film is like has been one of the things I always wanted to do since I don't know when," Nas tells Rolling Stone. "Maybe even before rap…. I don't know if I'm an expert, but I'm just a super fan of the old school and the golden era, and so it just felt like I couldn't have asked for a better project to be involved with."
In the first episode, the series' protagonist Ezekiel "Books" Figuero is portrayed as a gifted teen poet and a formidable park rapper played by Justice Smith, and a grown Nineties hip-hop icon portrayed by Hamilton's Daveed Diggs. Nas wrote the lyrics for his introspective poems, battle raps and nostalgic reminisces, providing a throughline for an episode already loaded with super disco breaks and claustrophobic krautrock. Before Part One premieres on August 12th, Nas talked to Rolling Stone about his new role as hip-hop's prestige TV storyteller.
How did you end up connecting with Baz?
I just got a call from them about sitting down. And we sat down and we had a discussion about both of our love of hip-hop music from way back; from Run-DMC to before Run-DMC, and what we both loved about it…. He knew what he wanted from me ... and it was a just a perfect time to get involved. I sat down with him Nelson George, and we had great talks about it. Grandmaster Flash, talked with him. Great talks about New York City and the culture during that time period, what was happening politically, what was happening in Hollywood. Baz had a chart in the office of historical things that happened that year.
You were about four years old in 1977, and it was probably about three or four years later that you started getting seriously into rhymes. So what was the moment that got you into hip-hip culture?
The moment I was born. [Laughs] I heard someone, I think it was Kool Herc, super DJ pioneer of hip-hop from the Bronx, say hip-hop started in 1973. That's the year I was born. So I was actually born with hip-hop. That's my brother, that's my sister, that's my twin. "I am hip hop," like KRS-One said. Music was just a thing that was coming out of the windows in Queensbridge, that was coming out of the park jams.
Rap songs, it's hard to pinpoint the first one, but I have to give a lot of credit to Kurtis Blow with "The Breaks." That record was not just a rap record, it was a great music record. It was like a sign that something new was about to happen, or was happening. Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks," sonically, could match any of the hit records of the time. And of course, the Sugar Hill [Gang's] "Rapper's Delight." At that point in time, Stevie Wonder was beginning to do a little rap, and a lot of music people were starting to do to a little rap thing at the end of their songs. I don't really remember a time where there was not rap music.
Nas Talks Writing Raps for Netflix Hip-Hop Drama 'The Get Down'
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
Ya, I'm more of an 80s guy. I want shell tops and velour suits with dookie chains not bell bottoms n afros.