Steve Stoute’s best-selling book is going to hit the small screen via VH1. The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop, is slated to become a four-hour, four-part documentary series.
The special, which is produced by filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman of Rakontur, is slated to air on VH1 in one-hour increments February 24 through February 27 at 11 pm EST each night.
The documentary is “a thorough examination of Hip Hop as a cultural movement, whose profound influence in music, film, television, fashion, business, race relations and politics eventually paved the way for the election of Barack Obama,” according to a VH1 press release. “The series provides a visual history of the hip-hopification of America – what Stoute calls ‘tanning’ – from The Jeffersons to the Fresh Prince; from Do the Right Thing to 8 Mile; from the streets of Compton to Madison Ave; from block parties to the Hamptons; and from rappers to entrepreneurs to icons.”
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