New Netflix Docuseries Honors Girls Who Formed Hip-Hop
Netflix has shared a trailer for its upcoming docuseries Girls First: A Story of Girls in Hip-Hop, which can inform the historical past of the style via a brand new lens, giving credit score to the numerous girls who formed it. Watch the trailer beneath.
The documentary will clarify how Black girls got here to “dominate the charts” and change into the “final influences” of hip-hop tradition, focusing each on pioneers of the style in addition to current-day superstars. Many influential rappers sit down for interviews, together with Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Rah Digga, Tierra Whack, Saweetie, and extra. Notably, as commenters on YouTube have identified, the trailer makes no point out of Nicki Minaj, the best-selling feminine rapper of all time, however with 4 episodes, it’s nonetheless potential the sequence itself will right this omission. The sequence is about to premiere on Netflix on August ninth.
“This well timed restricted doc sequence recontextualizes the irrepressible girls of hip hop and their function within the style’s 50 years by reinserting them into the canon the place they belong: on the heart, from day one to current day,” a press assertion mentioned. “By giving flowers to originators like Sha-Rock and Roxanne Shante or listening to actual discuss from up to date superstars like Saweetie and Coi Leray, Girls First: A Story of Girls in Hip-Hop contextualizes the historical past of the music that modified the world inside the wider social, racial, and political panorama of the instances and, crucially, via a feminine lens.”
This isn’t the primary time Netflix has produced documentaries on the historical past of hip-hop. In 2016, the platform started releasing Hip-Hop Evolution, one other docuseries that traced the style’s improvement from the Nineteen Seventies via the 2000s. They’ve additionally dabbled in different hip-hop associated media, together with 2019’s Rhythm & Move, a actuality music competitors present about discovering hip-hop’s subsequent celebrity with Likelihood the Rapper, Cardi B, and T.I. as judges.
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