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Die young game fat guy7/13/2023 But these people are creating art and the art of creating is really hard to do. We assume the telling of street stories is somehow innate and all we do is spit reality. Said Diggs: “When we look at rappers, we don’t treat them like artists. It’s in the songs, the expectation he would not make it past 22 or 23, and where 25 seems old. “He was an amazing artist but you hear in his music he didn’t expect to live past being young. “I’m very close with Benny Blanco, who worked closely with Juice WRLD,” Schreier told Deadline of the rising rap star who died in late 2019 when he was just 21 after suffering a seizure in a Chicago airport. Schreier said the short life span of so many rap artists is a fact of life in that business. I’m excited about the team.” Benny Blanco, YG Mega Our main character is from Los Angeles and YG will help add authenticity to this. Jake has worked with everyone and viewed this life through his work with Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Benny Blanco who’s on board and has worked with the biggest rappers in the game, and YG who’s one of my favorite rappers of the moment. That’s one of the really interesting things about this, an artist trying to cope with his mortality, and what do you do with that? It’s not an uncommon art story, but I don’t think it has been seen before through this lens. There are countless numbers of young rappers killed every year, by addiction, by gun violence, all sorts of ways. It feels wide open, the music is interesting and the personalities that are blowing up are so all over the board, but we’re not seeing a decrease in the fragility of the life of young Black men who participate in the culture. We’re a really interesting place in the rap world. That’s the part that hits home for me about today. It’s an artistic mid-life crisis, like in Fellini’s 8 ½, but in the world of these young rappers where you grow up so much faster and sometimes in the communities we come from, you don’t live much longer than 25 or 26. We actually had a band together and when we were in Berkeley High School, Jake was my first music producer and is a big part of why I started making music. Jake and I have been thinking about this a long time. “We witness the unraveling of this very brilliant young man. “He stops the tour, and in the middle of the desert, builds himself a compound and tries to make the next great rap album, hoping that fixes his problems,” Diggs said. He meets a young women (Paige) who convinces him to take a breath, which puts him at odds to the owner of the record label (Elba) who raised Marcus and is his mentor. It’s prescription cough syrup that is often mixed with sweet soda.” In order to deal with these demons he develops a Lean addiction, it’s also called Sizzurp. He can’t stop and he can’t make new music. “He launches onto this insane world tour, the biggest thing he’s ever been on, taking him all over the world and interacting with all kinds of new people. “Our character is at a place where he can’t create anymore,” said Diggs, who is the vocalist in the experimental hip hop group Clipping. It’s not unique to rappers, but when you talk to these young kids who are blowing up real fast, you start to recognize this is the dilemma they deal with: how to speak to the culture they come from, living the life they’re living. There is a cognitive dissonance between where you grew up and where you find yourself and you start to wonder why and how you got to this place. The life he’s leading is at odds with everything he grew up living. “He’s had regional success but when we meet him he’s on the verge of his big crossover hit and is going to become a bona fide superstar. “The film follows a rapper who reaches the ripe old age of 25, which in rap years, if you ask any of us who participate in the culture, starts to feel like you’re entering a different era,” Diggs told Deadline. Only here, that crisis comes in his early 20s, because young Black men in the rap industry often don’t live to see 30. It’s a midlife crisis like Fellini’s 8 1/2. At the same time, he’s under pressure to make new music and is hopelessly blocked. 'Sniff' The Hot Title At TIFF: Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Danny DeVito Star In Taylor Hackford-Directed Noir Packageīased on a story by Diggs and Chinaka Hodge, the film focuses on Marcus (Smith), a rapper in the midst of breaking big and undertaking the biggest live tour anyone has ever seen.
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