The Mother of Hip-Hop is coming to a big screen!
Following the success of EMPIRE on FOX, Warner Bros. is planning to transition the TV collective of writers to the big screen. Coincidentally W.B. declined to make Straight Outta Compton, as Universal scored big for one of the year’s biggest releases at $200 million. Now the company is looking to generate some wealth from hip-hop history, with announcing plans to create a tell-all film on Sylvia Robinson, the late co-founder of Sugar Hill Records.
Known by the world as the Mother of Hip-Hop, the story of the great S.R. is being penned by Carlito Rodriguez and Malcolm Spellman, writers of the popular FOX series, and will center on the first ever released rap record (Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight). Look for more details to emerge in the coming months, including who’ll be tapped to play the female lead of the film.
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