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Death Row doing films
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 19 August 2009
The recently resurrected Death Row Records label is expanding into film production.
As previously reported, Toronto-based WIDEawake Entertainment acquired the once legendary hip hop record company earlier this year via the bankruptcy courts, a previous purchase of the bankrupt label having fallen through. WIDEawake boss Lara Lavi is planning on raiding the Death Row archives – which include some seminal hip hop albums and a load of previously unheard tracks by iconic rap figures – as well as using the Death Row name for new projects.
The film division is one of the new projects – its first movie being called ‘Sons 2 The Grave’ and due to go into production on October. Lavi explains: “This film embodies what we’re trying to do with Death Row, to tell human stories that don’t always have happy endings, and that allow us to learn from violence and disenfranchised lives, but not glorify it”.
