{"id":9761,"date":"2015-03-24T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:01:20","slug":"russell-simmons-is-creating-a-hip-hop-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=9761","title":{"rendered":"Russell Simmons Is Creating a Hip-Hop Broadway Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/rush.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/rush.jpg?resize=250%2C267\" alt=\"Rush\" width=\"250\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5766\" \/><\/a>Russell Simmons is bringing hip-hop to Broadway. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Rolling Stone, Rush revealed that he was inspired by the hard rock musical, Rock of Ages. After seeing the show, Simmons said that this venture became \u201cthe most obvious thing in the world,\u201d calling The Scenario the hip-hop version of the jukebox classic.<\/p>\n<p>The play will \u201dbe half-concert, half-storytelling. Something like this deserves a little bit of a love story and a little bit of [Public Enemy&#8217;s] \u2018Fight the Power.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe life story of hip-hop is Ice Cube\u2019s Are We There Yet?, not [N.W.A&#8217;s] \u2018Fuck tha Police,\u2019\u201d he said while explaining the difference between The Scenario and Holler If Ya Hear Me. \u201cIt\u2019s Ice-T [playing] the longest-running cop on TV. That\u2019s hip-hop. It\u2019s \u201cJesus Walks\u201d as much as it is \u2018Fuck Tha Police.\u2019 The celebration of poetry is not defined by one poem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell is teaming up with hip-hop historian-author Dan Charnas (The Big Payback) to write the script. The musical, which Simmons and Tony award winning Scott Prisand will produce, is set to hit Broadway in late 2016. It will feature a mix of actual rap songs and musical versions of classics. This is Simmons second Broadway venture, the first being his adaptation of his hit HBO show Def Poetry Jam back in 2002 for which he won a Tony award (who knew &#8230; ). <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Russell Simmons is bringing hip-hop to Broadway.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,1112],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-russell-simmons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-2xr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rush.jpg?fit=250%2C267&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}