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Rap veteran Nas will be the face of the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival as reports claim his Time Is Illmatic documentary will open the annual celebration.
According to reports, the film will premiere in April and help launch the festivities.
Premiering on April 16, “Time is Illmatic” is the second music-themed documentary in a row to open the festival, after last year’s “Mistaken for Strangers,” about the band the National. It will also be the second year to include a musical performance by the documentary subject. The screening is to be followed by a special concert with Nas performing “Illmatic” from beginning to end. This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 16-27. (New York Times)
Reports also claim film will give viewers an inside look at Nasty Nas’ music influences.
The film is directed by the multimedia artist One9 and looks the career of the hip-hop artist, who has sold more than 20 million albums, as well as his influential 1994 debut album, “Illmatic.” The film will also cover some of Nas’s musical influences, including his jazz musician father, Olu Dara. (New York Times)
A few days ago, Nas revealed his upcoming “Street Dreams” television series would give viewers an intimate peek at his upbringing.
“I’m hands-on with everything, so this show is 100 percent authentic,” Nas tells Rolling Stone. “Even if I don’t look cool in it, I just want it to be real and raw. I didn’t see this as a full autobiography at first. But I have so much that’s happened in my life already, there was no room for fantasy. I wanted it to be entertaining, but everything from my life seemed to be so strong. It’s all reality. There’s nothing from my life I didn’t want in there.” (Rolling Stone)
The rap vet’s manager also revealed how “Street Dreams” came into fruition.
The seeds of Street Dreams go back nearly two years, when Nas, his manager Anthony Saleh (who doubles as the show’s executive producer) and others on his team started to brainstorm a new way to tell the rapper’s story. “Once we developed a treatment, we shopped it to a ton of networks,” says Saleh. “They were interested, but we wanted to take another step forward in the technology realm and felt Xbox was the perfect partner to represent how we think about the world. Content consumption is changing by the minute and a non-traditional platform like Xbox is the perfect home for this.” (Rolling Stone)
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