EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is developing Motherland Bounce, a comedy based on the life of Hasidic hip-hop star Nissim Black, from writer/comedian Moshe Kasher and The Gilded Age executive producer/director Salli Richardson-Whitfield as part of her overall deal with HBO.Created and written by Kasher with story by Black and directed by Richardson-Whitfield, Motherland Bounce is the story of Black’s spiritual quest as the former gangster rapper becomes the world’s first Black Chassidic Jewish hip hop star.Kasher and Black executive produce with Richardson-Whitfield via her HBO-based Early May Productions, and Erwin More.
Eric Schulman and Aaron Fogelson serve as co-producers.Black has in recent years become one of the most recognizable faces in Israeli hip-hop, his unlikely story starting in Seattle where he was selling drugs by the age of 12 and joined a gang shortly after that.
His unique path to Orthodox Judaism and Israeli hip-pop stardom came after a confrontation with a rival nearly cost him his life and set him on a spiritual quest for answers that led him to Hasidism and a move to Jerusalem.
His latest singles “Mothaland Bounce”, “The Hanukkah Song 2.0” and “Adored” have peaked at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 21 respectively on the Israeli charts.
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