The Tribeca Film Festival announced today that Nas’ upcoming documentary film Time Is Illmatic will be opening the festival this year which is taking place in New York April 16 to 27. The documentary is directed by multimedia artist One9, written by Erik Parker, and produced by One9, Parker, and Anthony Saleh. The will be premeired a day after Nas will release a special 20th anniversary edition of his landmark debut album Illmatic via Sony legacy.
Time Is Illmatic traces Nas’s influences and the insurmountable odds he faced in creating the greatest work of music from hip-hop’s second golden era. The film tracks the musical legacy of the Jones family — handed down to Nas from his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, the support of his Queensbridge neighborhood crew, and the loyalty of his younger brother Jabari “Jungle” Fret. Twenty years after its release, Illmatic is widely recognized as a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the sociopolitical outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young men searching for their voice in America. Time Is Illmatic is supported by The Ford Foundation’s Just Films and Tribeca Film Institute’s Tribeca All Access program.
Watch a preview of the documentary below.
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