NBA star Stephen Curry is among the producers of an upcoming documentary focusing on the late Bay Area rapper and hyphy pioneer Mac Dre.
Curry, a member of the Golden Star Warriors (formerly of Mac Dre’s birthplace of Oakland), will produce the film alongside his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton and with approval from Mac Dre’s mother.
“Mac Dre is a cultural icon who made a tremendous impact on the Bay Area and beyond through his music and pioneering creativity,” Curry and Peyton said in a statement to Billboard.
Curry, a member of the Golden Star Warriors (formerly of Mac Dre’s birthplace of Oakland), will produce the film alongside his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton and with approval from Mac Dre’s mother.
“Mac Dre is a cultural icon who made a tremendous impact on the Bay Area and beyond through his music and pioneering creativity,” Curry and Peyton said in a statement to Billboard.
- 9/28/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Growing up in the Bay Area, Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper, now known to fans as Saweetie, listened to 106.1 Kmel and Wild 949 on her drive to school with her dad every morning. And like clockwork, Turf Talk's "It's a Slumper," her dad's favorite song, could be heard blasting from the 808 speakers in the trunk as they made their way across the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. At home, the family computer was riddled with viruses, thanks to her LimeWire downloads of Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma's mixtapes. This was Saweetie's first introduction to hip-hop.
"Both of my parents were really big hip-hop heads. My dad played a lot of the greats, Tupac, Biggie, but I'm from the Bay, so I grew up listening to Mac Dre, Too $hort, Mac Mall, and Mistah F.A.B.," the 30-year-old rapper tells Popsugar. "The Bay Area has so many great hip-hop artists from every era, but that's...
"Both of my parents were really big hip-hop heads. My dad played a lot of the greats, Tupac, Biggie, but I'm from the Bay, so I grew up listening to Mac Dre, Too $hort, Mac Mall, and Mistah F.A.B.," the 30-year-old rapper tells Popsugar. "The Bay Area has so many great hip-hop artists from every era, but that's...
- 8/1/2023
- by Monica Sisavat Solís
- Popsugar.com
Netflix’s new rom-com “The Perfect Find” isn’t short on great music. The original film stars Gabrielle Union and Keith Powers as Jenna Jones and Eric Combs as well as Gina Torres, who plays Darcy Hale. Jenna’s journey back into fashion comes at a price — begging her old nemesis for a job at her fashion magazine Darzine. Jenna also puts herself back out there for love, and she finds a real connection with Eric — until she realizes he’s Darcy’s son.
The film adaptation of Tia Williams’ novel contains a great soundtrack of music by Black artists. The soundtrack complements references to Nina Mae McKinney, Aretha Franklin and more, and strides between older hits from past decades and modern singles that are popular in the present day to capture the full spectrum of art.
Here are all the songs in Netflix’s “The Perfect Find”:
Also...
The film adaptation of Tia Williams’ novel contains a great soundtrack of music by Black artists. The soundtrack complements references to Nina Mae McKinney, Aretha Franklin and more, and strides between older hits from past decades and modern singles that are popular in the present day to capture the full spectrum of art.
Here are all the songs in Netflix’s “The Perfect Find”:
Also...
- 6/23/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
When Rexx Life Raj calls The Blue Hour his most personal record, he ain’t kidding. If the lyrics and somber melodies don’t give it away, the rapper wrote his latest album while doing everything he could to spend time with his parents and make them comfortable in their final months as their health declined in recent years. He even turned a room in his parents house—the Yellow Room from his childhood where he grew up and first learned to produce music—into a studio and created there...
- 11/7/2022
- by Nathan Mattise
- Rollingstone.com
Michael Yezerski composed the music for the film “Blindspotting” and was invited back for the series currently airing on Starz, this time collaborating with fellow musician Ambrose Akinmusire. Dance and music play a key role in the series alongside the spoken word, with sequences meant to be evocative and used to enhance the characters’ emotions.
The Starz adaptation was created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who wrote, produced and starred in the original film, and picks up six months after the movie’s timeline. Ashley, played by Jasmine Cephas Jones, and her partner of 12 years and father of their son, Miles, played by Casal, grapple with incarceration as mother and child are forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.
The arc of a TV series, compared to the movie, allows for Diggs and Casal to tap into their love not just for the arts, but the Bay...
The Starz adaptation was created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who wrote, produced and starred in the original film, and picks up six months after the movie’s timeline. Ashley, played by Jasmine Cephas Jones, and her partner of 12 years and father of their son, Miles, played by Casal, grapple with incarceration as mother and child are forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.
The arc of a TV series, compared to the movie, allows for Diggs and Casal to tap into their love not just for the arts, but the Bay...
- 7/6/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
It’s easy to assume that, after four seasons of chronicling life in and around junior college football, the creative team behind Netflix’s documentary series “Last Chance U” would be largely unfazed by the prospect of a new year spent in locker rooms and classrooms. As the team, including series director Greg Whiteley, closed out a half-decade filming action on and off the field, the expertise was definitely there.
But if there were preseason jitters, it was on their side of the camera.
“I actually think we are a lot more nervous than the players are. I’ve entered every single season doing this show, even if we’re at a school where we filmed the year previously, and all the players are pretty much different. I’m filled with a very similar set of anxieties,” Whiteley told IndieWire. “Who are the main players that we’re going to focus on?...
But if there were preseason jitters, it was on their side of the camera.
“I actually think we are a lot more nervous than the players are. I’ve entered every single season doing this show, even if we’re at a school where we filmed the year previously, and all the players are pretty much different. I’m filled with a very similar set of anxieties,” Whiteley told IndieWire. “Who are the main players that we’re going to focus on?...
- 8/5/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Lil Jon released a new single, “Ain’t No Tellin’,” featuring the vocals of late rapper Mac Dre. “For me, I put Mac Dre right up there with Biggie & Pac as legends who have since passed on,” said Lil Jon. “I’m humbled beyond words that Mac Dre’s mother has entrusted me with this opportunity and access to master tapes [of his voice].”
Mac Dre’s mother, Ms. Mac Wanda, gave Lil Jon her blessing to use her son’s vocals on the track. “I’m more than excited for this record to come out.
Mac Dre’s mother, Ms. Mac Wanda, gave Lil Jon her blessing to use her son’s vocals on the track. “I’m more than excited for this record to come out.
- 6/12/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The film industry is still a long way from racial equity, but the last few years have seen strides to bring the young black experience to the screen in films like Dope, Dear White People and Morris From America. All of those films were important in distilling a specific existence, but they all offered black characters who self-identified as outcasts.
Justin Tipping’s debut, Kicks, follows another societal reject, Brandon, a socially awkward black 15-year old living in Richmond, California, but while Brandon feels uncomfortable in his own skin, the script doesn’t demonize the culture he’s come from. Brandon has grown up in a place that idolizes a legacy of gangsters, but there’s just as much an understanding that expressing masculinity is about actively posturing.
As a figure, Brandon naturally recedes into the background, easily overshadowed by his blooming hair, and paling in comparison to his best friends,...
Justin Tipping’s debut, Kicks, follows another societal reject, Brandon, a socially awkward black 15-year old living in Richmond, California, but while Brandon feels uncomfortable in his own skin, the script doesn’t demonize the culture he’s come from. Brandon has grown up in a place that idolizes a legacy of gangsters, but there’s just as much an understanding that expressing masculinity is about actively posturing.
As a figure, Brandon naturally recedes into the background, easily overshadowed by his blooming hair, and paling in comparison to his best friends,...
- 9/14/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
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