USA 2014
Language: English
Subtitles: German
Director: ONE 9
Camera: Frank Larson
Script: Erik Parker
Editor: David Zieff
Cast: NAS, Jabari „Jungle“ Jones, Olu Dara
Producer: ONE9, Erik Parker, Anthony Saleh
Music: Brian Satz
Distributer: NFP marketing & distribution
Lenght: 77 min
Format: DCP
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

From a young street poet to a visionary MC who signed a contract with a major label at the age of 19: twenty years after the appearance of Nas`s debut album, the film follows his roots in the New York area of Queensbridge. Formed by drug criminality and violence and inspired by the jazz music of his father Olu Dar, Nasir Jones created a style-defining work of art which raised the emancipative power of rap music to a new level and left behind its effect way beyond the boundaries of hip-hop. The producers from earlier, Large Professor, Q-Tip, Pete Rock & DJ Premier talk about the inventive beats and the differentiated application of sampling.