EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is developing 'Motherland Bounce,' a comedy based on the life of Hasidic hip-hop star Nissim Black
Created and written by Kasher with story by Black and directed by Richardson-Whitfield,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.
which has been renewed for a second season, and directed the final two episodes of the first season of Adam McKay’sn. As an actress, Richardson-Whitfield has starred in films such as Antwone Fisher’s
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