AMC Partners with Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tarik "Black Thought" Trotter and Academy Award Winning Film Maker Alex Gibney on New Documentary Series "Rap Year Book"
AMC announced that it will be producing a year-round documentary series "AMC Visionaries," partnering with prolific artists to unveil the untold stories and fascinating histories of pop culture genres from the masters themselves.
"We are really excited to create this thought provoking series with AMC and Jigsaw Productions." Said Questlove and Black Thought, "We are just beginning to enter the film & TV content creation space in a big way, through our production company Passyunk Productions, and to have Rap Yearbook as one of our first projects greenlit to series, and AMC and Jigsaw as our partners, it's an amazing way to launch our production company. This will be a great journey".
One of the first installments of "AMC Visionaries: Rap Yearbook" (working title) is to be executive produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter (Passyunk Productions), Shawn Gee (Philly Films), Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and Stacey Offman (Jigsaw Productions). The six-part series is slated to premiere on AMC in 2018. This is an expansion of the network's nonfiction programming slate, which includes the previously announced projects "AMC Visionaries: Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics," featuring interviews with Stan Lee, Patty Jenkins, Lynda Carter, Kevin Smith and Todd McFarlane, and "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," featuring interviews with Paul W. Anderson, Roland Emmerich, Paul Verhoeven, Bryan Singer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sigourney Weaver, Keanu Reeves and Zoe Saldana, among many others.
"AMC Visionaries: Rap Year Book," based on Shea Serrano's New York Times best-selling book The Rap Yearbook, debates, deconstructs and illuminates the most important moments and songs from the biggest years in the history of hip=hop. Each episode is centered on the story of one key song and features a special guest MC as well as a select group of core contributors including legendary rap artists, acclaimed music experts and other fresh voices. The series gives viewers a deeper understanding of what hip-hop is all about by diving into the music and its history. It's a multi-layered exploration of what was going on in the streets, on the airwaves, and in the lives of the people who created the songs that made hip-hop one of the most important music genres in the world.
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