Moreover flexing his creativity on the hardwood, NBA marksman Stephen Curry is shortly etching a lane for himself on the movie facet alongside his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton. Subsequent up, the duo are producing an upcoming documentary on the Bay Space legend Mac Dre.
Dre, 34, was an instrumental determine within the Hyphy motion within the early 2000s and helped usher within the hip-hop subgenre earlier than being killed in 2004. Dre, born Andre Hicks, was concerned in a capturing in Kansas Metropolis the place a automobile pulled up on the facet of his van and commenced firing. Dre’s mom, Wanda Salvatto, seems to discover the legacy of her son and his influence on the Bay Space earlier than his premature demise within the movie.
“I stay up for sharing how from Andre’s desires of rapping emerged a blueprint that not solely impressed a era but in addition turned a information to conquering obstacles and fulfilling their entrepreneurial desires,” Salvatto tells Billboard. A few of Dre’s greatest songs included “Feelin Myself,” “Get Silly,” and “Make You Mine,” and artists similar to Wiz Khalifa and Warren G have sung Dre’s praises and hyped his influence on the tradition.
Unanimous Media will accomplice with Salvatto on the forthcoming endeavor. “Mac Dre is a cultural icon who made an incredible influence on the Bay Space and past by means of his music and pioneering creativity,” Peyton and Curry inform Billboard. “We’re honored to work with Mac Dre’s unimaginable mom, Wanda, to inform her son’s life story with respect and dignity for followers, the Bay Space group, and music lovers alike.”
Together with co-producers Curry and Peyton, Brian Testuro Ivie of Unanimous Media will likely be helming the challenge as government producer.