{"id":98675,"date":"2015-12-14T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=98675"},"modified":"2015-12-14T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:57:03","slug":"video-the-official-trailer-for-vh1s-the-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-the-official-trailer-for-vh1s-the-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Official Trailer For VH1&#8217;s The Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:368px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:uma:video:vh1.com:1266891\/cp~series%3D2216%26id%3D1738993%26vid%3D1266891%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Avh1.com%3A1266891\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/the-breaks\/series.jhtml\" style=\"color:#439CD8;\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, VH1 announced they were making an original Hip-Hop drama titled <em>The Breaks<\/em> based on the book <em>The Big Payback<\/em> from journalist and author <strong>Dan Charnas<\/strong>. Written and directed by <strong>Seith Mann<\/strong> (<em>The Wire, The Walking Dead, Homeland<\/em>), the movie tells the story of three friends trying to make their way in the music industry in the summer of 1990 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The VH1 original stars singer\/actor <strong>Mack Wilds<\/strong> as well as <strong>Afton Williamson, Wood Harris, David Call, Antoine Harris<\/strong>, and <strong>Method Man<\/strong>, while <strong>DJ Premier<\/strong> serves as the movie&#8217;s executive music producer. Watch the official trailer above and look for <em>The Breaks<\/em> to premiere Monday, Jan. 4 on VH1.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2015\/12\/vh1-the-breaks-trailer-premiere\" target=\"_blank\">complex<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"98732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-the-official-trailer-for-vh1s-the-breaks\/esg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"esg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"esg\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/esg.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, VH1 announced they were making an original Hip-Hop drama titled The Breaks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pFx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98675","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}