Ohio and Michigan are putting their rivalries aside as Detroit's Eminem and Akron's LeBron James are collaborating on a documentary about music piracy for Paramount+.
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The two-part series premiered at SXSW earlier this year and “details the fascinating and often funny backstory of the technology-driven disruption that changed music in the late '90s and early 2000s,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. It is said that This document examines the technology that has enabled millions of young people to quench their thirst for new music simply by downloading it for free.
“How Music Got Free” features interviews with Em (hilariously thinking Yahoo! was a person), record executive Steve Stoute (who also serves as executive producer), 50 Cent, Timbaland, Jimmy Iovine, Rocsi Diaz, Rhymefest, and more, as well as a conversation with Dell Glover, often referred to as “Patient Zero of Internet piracy” because he was one of the first factory workers to smuggle CDs out of the factory.
The documentary is directed by Alexandria Stapleton and produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, Revlon's Spring Hill, Interscope Films and Shady Films.
The director says of her approach: How Music Became Free is a story that proves that great minds can be found in the most unlikely of places, like the rural and forgotten mill town of Shelby, North Carolina. ”
If you'd like to check it out for yourself before the document goes live on Tuesday, June 11th, there's also a book of the same name released in 2015 by Stephen Witt. There's still time.