{"id":198936,"date":"2024-06-18T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=198936"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:58:36","slug":"nas-to-adapt-the-classic-movie-beat-street-for-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/nas-to-adapt-the-classic-movie-beat-street-for-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas To Adapt The Classic Movie &#8220;Beat Street&#8221; For Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nas<\/strong> will produce a stage adaptation of the beloved 1984 movie, \u201cBeat Street.\u201c The announcement was made after a 40th anniversary screening of the film at the <em>Tribeca Film Festival<\/em>\u00a0 in New York. The upcoming production, which is aiming for Broadway, will expand on the film and create new material to complement it&#8217;s musical numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Nas will be collaborating with producer<strong> Arthur Baker<\/strong>, who served as a co-producer, composer, and musical producer on the original film. Set in New York City&#8217;s South Bronx, &#8220;Beat Street&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em>follows a group of aspiring artists, a DJ, breakdancer and graffiti artist, who are chasing their dreams in the early 1980s&#8217; bubbling hip-hop scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Beat Street&#8221; (1984) &#8211; Official Trailer<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7bYXW4x7RXk?si=1RVGG3jIg37JxFN-\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nas will produce a stage adaptation of the beloved 1984 movie, \u201cBeat Street.\u201c The announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":198937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Nas-Beat-Street-Musical-News-Thumbnail.webp?fit=2560%2C1697&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-PKE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}