YouTube today announced new and returning projects at the 10th-annual digital newfront and digital personalized event, Brandcast Delivered. Among the highlights: a six-part unscripted series following Will Smith embarking on his fitness journey, a new intimate performance docuseries with Alicia Keys premiering this summer, the third and final season of âLiza on Demand,â starring popular creator Liza Koshy, “Ice Cold,” a docuseries that explores issues around racial inequity through the lens of hip-hop jewelry, and âRecipe for Changeâ [working title], a new special celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander culture. For more details on Brandcast Delivered, see blog post here.
Below are the upcoming new and returning YouTube Originals featured in todayâs presentation (watch Kynclâs remarks here):
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âHe was always helping people without thinking about himself and thatâs what a superhero did and thatâs what my steppop did. Superheroes always die. Fuck being a superhero, I want to be a villain. Villains never die.â
Tekashi 6ix9ine (Picture: Michael Campanella / Redferns)
Hernandez’ step-father was killed during a shopping trip when the rapper was 13-year-old, with the rapper explaining how the impact of his death led him to a path of darkness.
âItâs like the Joker, you want to hate him, but you love him,â he said.
âHeâs the bad guy but you end up falling in love with him. You consistently say, âI hate this guy,â but you canât stop watching. Thereâs somewhere deep down where you fall in love with that guy.â
Martin Carr reviews Showtime’s documentary Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine…
This three-part documentary directed by Karam Gill explores the cultural impact of Daniel Hernandez, known globally as Brooklyn born rapper Tekashi69, and charts his rise from obscurity into a media spotlight of his own making. Using intimate footage and talking head soundbites from close family, music industry experts and Brooklyn gang members,
Supervillain explores the power of social media in making that happen.
Daniel Hernandez created this tattoo sporting, rainbow bleached alter ego in search of adulation. To propagate, propel and sensationalise he aligned himself with influences which would legitimate that image. Millions of people around the world bought into this myth, making him not only financially secure but iconic. In telling this story director Karam Gill creates a narrative which feels like a cautionary tale with sides orders of heavy artillery.
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine Can t Meet Its Own Ambition: TV Review
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In trying to explain the man and phenomenon that is Tekashi 6ix9ine, Showtime’s new docuseries does its best to embody him.
“Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine,” directed by Karam Gill, alternates between self-consciously shaggy found footage and slick, stylized interludes. Like its subject, “Supervillain” depends on social media to build itself up. It stitches together years of Instagram videos to paint its portrait of a man who deliberately transformed himself into rap’s most chaotic antagonist, with his rise reflected in his ballooning follower numbers. It interviews people from his inner circle, observers of his increasingly hyperbolic life and, sporadically, Tekashi 6x9ine himself in audio clips from the suburban safehouse he’s most recently called home. Throughout its three episodes titled “Identity,” “Power�