Russell Simmons has announced that he is going to once again extend the hip-hip culture. Uncle Rush will be producing a Broadway musical about the hip hop culture. Journalist and hip-hop historian Dan Charnas penned The Scenario screenplay. Play-goers will be able to hear “the greatest hits from a two-decade span of hip-hop – from the ‘golden age’ of the mid-80s to mid-90s…to the chart-topping artists at the turn of the millennium.”
Simmons explains,
People will sing along and leave happy. So many of these songs will reach everybody in the audience. That almost never happens. There are so many great songs! Do I need something from Kurtis Blow? From Drake? I just don’t know. Jay-Z? LL Cool J?
The play is expected to be on Broadway in 2016.
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