Coming off the heels of it’s Tribeca Film Festival opening night debut, Tribeca Film announced that the company is acquiring North American rights to One9’s Time Is Illmatic, which had its world premiere as the opening night of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary is directed by multimedia artist, One9, written by Erik Parker and produced by One9, Parker, and Anthony Saleh. It follows the trajectory of Nas’ 1994 landmark debut album, Illmatic— widely considered one of the most important and revolutionary albums in hip-hop.
A storm of biblical proportions ravages a small town; your town. Torrential rains, gale force winds and rising flood levels torture you and your family, threatening your lives and well being. Scared and flustered you huddle together to ride out the storm. Then the levy breaks and you’re all forced to seek refuge on the roof of your home, stranded there for indeterminate span of time. No one knows when help will arrive it could be hours, worse still it could be days. Trapped by nature’s fury, and encircled by steadily rising, disease ridden waters there is only hope to sustain you. Your home is totaled and for miles there is only murky brown death surrounding you and your loved ones. At long last, a rowboat approaches. Your prayers have been answered. You carefully load your children on to the boat, breathing a sigh of relief as each one clings to the helpful stranger below. Knowing they will be safe is more comforting than anything you can remember. 
