{"id":22213,"date":"2017-02-21T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/stream-series-premiere-hip-hop-period-drama-breaks-free\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:16:50","slug":"stream-series-premiere-hip-hop-period-drama-breaks-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/stream-series-premiere-hip-hop-period-drama-breaks-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream Series Premiere of Hip-Hop Period Drama ‘The Breaks’ for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n By Sameer Rao<\/span> Feb 21, 2017<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Those who missed last night’s (February 20) premiere of VH1’s hip-hop historical drama series, \"The Breaks,\" can now stream the first episode on the network’s website<\/a> and apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new series<\/a> grew out of a VH1 television movie of the same name that premiered<\/a> in January 2016. Like the movie, the show follows young New York City residents trying to survive in the high-stakes early ’90s hip-hop economy. Dan Charnas<\/a>‘ 2011 book about the rap business’ evolution from low-paying DIY gigs to multi-million-dollar contracts and endorsements, \"The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop<\/a>,\" inspired both the series and film.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afton Williams<\/a> (\"The Night Of\"), Tristan \"Mack\" Wilds<\/a> (\"Shots Fired\") and David Call<\/a> (\"James White\") reprise their movie roles as three friends hustling in the business’ management, music production and journalism worlds, respectively. Wood Harris<\/a> (\"The New Edition Story\"), Method Man<\/a> (\"Rebel\") and other performers also return as their original characters.<\/p>\n

The first episode follows Williams’ character, Nikki, as she starts working for egocentric and temperamental music executive Barry Fouray, portrayed by Harris. It also shows Ahm, played by Antoine Harris<\/a> (\"Power\"), trying to get his mixtape back from Wilds’ DeeVee, who is sidetracked by a police interrogation.<\/p>\n

Watch \"The Breaks’\" series premiere on VH1.com<\/a> and via the network’s mobile streaming apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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The new series takes inspiration from Dan Charnas’ book, “The Big Payback,” and focuses on three friends navigating the early ’90s hip-hop business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,16412,6589,14348,14368,15531],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}