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Rap veteran Nas and creator Baz Luhrmann‘s long-awaited “Get Down” Netflix series is reportedly gearing up for a mid-August premiere.
Barring any setbacks, Nas, who is one of the show’s collaborators, will see the 70’s New York-themed hip-hop show hit the small screen August 12.
Creator Baz Luhrmann’s first series for television, The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash-strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGB to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop – as told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city and the world…forever.
Last month, Nas defended his decision not to rush out a long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Life Is Good album.
And even though it’s been four years since Nas last released an album, he’s not rushing the process. “I’m letting the music dictate [the direction]. Words can’t explain that,” Nas said of his next album. “It’s going to be a fun Nas album.” (Complex)
West Coast rapper Game revealed some pics of himself and Nasty Nas on his Instagram page last week.
Nas recently invested in a protein bar company called Exo.
The company just closed a $4 million round of Series A funding led by Accel Foods — including Nas — bringing its total funding to $5.6 million. Exo cofounders Greg Sewitz and Gabi Lewis started experimenting with cricket-based food when they were seniors at Brown University, after reading a United Nations report that said eating insects could help combat world hunger. (Business Insider)
