Jenkins served as executive producer on the Netflix series Rapture, which launched globally on March 30, 2018. His documentary Word Is Bond -about the artful crafting of hip hop lyrics-premiered at the Urban World Film Festival and aired on Showtime in March 2018. Jenkins’ next film, Burn Motherfucker, Burn! – about the so-called Los Angeles "riots" of 1992 and the generations of African Americans who have been abused by LAPD and its historically corrupt system of policing-debuted on Showtime in April of 2017. Jenkins’ first feature-length documentary, Fresh Dressed (which tells the tale of hip hop fashion), premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. In 2012 Sacha joined Mass Appeal as Chief Creative Officer. Jenkins has built his strong reputation as a creative working as a television producer, via shows like Cartoon Network’s The Boondocks (creative consultant/writer), Vh1’s The White Rapper Show (executive producer) and Miss Rap Supreme. Jenkins knew that there was a need for arts journalists who can write about the ever-evolving worlds of “graffiti” and “street art” from a native’s perspective. It was Jenkins’ rich knowledge of the history of New York subway graffiti that would deliver him to the Ivy League. In 2000, Jenkins was awarded a fellowship to the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (The National Arts Journalism Program). Martin’s Press) and ego trip’s Big Book of Racism (Reagan Books). ego trip would go on to produce two books- ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists (St.
In 1994, Jenkins would co-found music journal ego trip.
Jenkins went on to spend several years at Vibe magazine, serving as both staff writer and music editor there he would pen seminal articles on artists like Sean “Puffy” Combs, Juvenile and Bone Thugz N Harmony. By age 20, Jenkins would co-found Beat Down, the first-ever hip hop newspaper. In his teens, Jenkins published his first magazine- Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language (a ‘zine about the graffiti subculture). Sacha Jenkins, a native New Yorker, came of age in the throes of the cultural phenomenon of hip-hop.
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