Two One Five Ent

Congratulations to our very own @questlove on his several Emmy nominations!! 🎉

Very honored and excited for our first, second, and third Emmy nominations!! #twoonefive

Tune in to @netflix now for the premiere of @daughtersthedocumentary Executive Produced by @blackthought We are very proud of the team behind this moving portrait of empathy and forgiveness. DAUGHTERS traces an eight-year documentary journey by co-directors @natalieraerobison and @sistah_angela . The film follows Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana as they prepare for a momentous Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers. Don’t miss this evocative film.

Congrats to the @daughtersdocumentary team! #twoonefive

It’s official! SLY LIVES! ( AKA The Burden of Black Genius) will premiere at the 2025 #Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Oscar-Winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the film explores the life, music, and cultural impact of Sly Stone, shedding light on the challenges faced by Black artists navigating success SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)  A Questlove Jawn  Director: Ahmir Questlove Thompson (@questlove )  Producer: Joseph Patel (@jazzbeezy )  Producer: Derik Murray Editor: Josh Pearson (@joshpearson914 )  Story Producer: Jeff Mao (@chairmanmaonyc )  Director of Photography: Laura Merians Gonçalves (@lauramelodygoncalves ) Co-producer: Eric MacDonald (@ericmaran )  Archival Producers: Matthew Van Deventer & Bianca Cervantes  Line Producer: Stephen Sawchuk  Production Supervisor: Karen Twomey (@kaztwomey )  Executive Producer: Amit Dey  Executive Producers: Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Shawn Gee, Zarah Zohlman (@zarahzohlman )  Executive Producer: Common (@common )  Executive Producers: Derek Dudley (derekd1971), Shelby Stone (msstone08) Executive Producers: Brian Gersh, Paul Gertz, Jesse James Miller, Ron Weisner, Jon Kamen, Dave Sirulnick  Assistant to Joseph Patel: Kazumi Fish (@kazumifish )  Chief of Staff to Questlove: Cathy Rong (@therongcathy )  Produced, Presented and In Association With: Onyx Collective (@onyxcollective ), Hulu (@HULU ), MRC, Sony Music, Network Entertainment Two One Five Entertainment (@twoonefive ), Stardust, ID8, RadicalMedia (@radicalmedia

Congratulations @blackthought and Team @daughtersdocumentary on the Critics Choice nominations!

For Your Consideration #HipHopIsHistory

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Questlove does and he’s going to make a documentary about it!

Presenting something Wonderful from the Obama @highergroundmedia & @twoonefive productions The Wonder Of Stevie Hosted by Wesley Morris @wsslyy An in depth 7 episode study of Stevie Wonder’s “classic Period” period between 1972’s Music Of My Mind 1972’s Talking Book 1973’s Innervisions 1974 Fulfillingness First Finale 1976 Songs In The Key Of Life (yeah I personally pleaded the case for 1979’s Journey Of The Secret Life Of Plants & 1980’s Hotter Than July…..let’s see how it fared) Appearances from Barack Obama, Stevie Wonder, Michelle Obama, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Janell Monae and much more. Courtesy of @audible available where you get your podcasts.

Never let doubt or cynicism or obstacles get in the way of any dream or goal you have in life. The Idea In You my first kids book (kinda a Creative Quest For kids) is released on September 24 on @abramskids (pre order now!) #Repost @abramskids ・・・ THE IDEA IN YOU, the debut picture book from @NYTimes best selling author @questlove , illustrated by award-winning artist @sean_qualls , arrives September 24. It’s an uplifting story about passion, creativity, and joy that will inspire kids to find their own creative pursuits. Preorder now. #TheIdeaInYou

“I wasn’t happy that ‘A Whole New Thing’ didn’t make the right kind of splash. We had worked so hard only to feel like the first step we took might have been a step backwards. But the record’s reception was a matter of perception. Though critics played it cool, musicians warmed up to it immediately. Dave Kapralik told me that whenever he would speak to a singer or player or producer, they would marvel at the album. Jon Hendricks, the jazz singer, loved it. So did Teo Macero, who produced Miles Davis. I liked that because I liked the jazz guys. Even when I was young, I preferred jazz to blues. It could be interesting even if it was boring.” ——From THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN), by Sly Stone Sly and the Family Stone’s first album, A Whole New Thing, was a massive achievement, tying together all the strands of Sly’s life up until then — his childhood as a gospel singer, his adolescence as a bandleader and session musician, his training as a DJ, his studies in composition. It also might have been too much too soon, and it missed audiences, though it found favor with other musicians. Sly went back into the studio, partly at the urging of his manager Dave Kapralik, and set out to create a hit single. That he did. “Dance to the Music” came out of the box like a rocket. It showcased the band’s prowess, the vocals of not only Sly but his brother Freddie, his sister Rose, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, and more. It was a song about the energy of creating a song, and the album that it anchored was a commercial smash. Sly was thrilled, but also nonplussed: why did audiences leap at his lesser achievements when they had let his genius first album cool its heels in record bins? The sessions for Dance to the Music yielded enough songs for the record and then some. One of the outtakes, “Life of Fortune and Fame,” stayed in the vaults until well into the twenty-first century, at which point it started to appear on various compilations and box sets. You can read all about Dance to the Music and a thousand other things in Sly’s riveting memoir, published by AUWA Books last fall and hailed internationally as one of the best books of 2023 #SummerofSly

Every Philadelphian is a proud Philadelphian. It’s just how we’re made. But in May of 1985, a horrific incident took place that would leave a mark on eleven year old Tariq and the city of Philadelphia, forever. MOVE, The Untold Story Of An American Tragedy is available now, only on @audible . S/O to @staymacro @audible and @cultivateentertainment for your partnership on this project. This story must be told! Go listen now! Let’s discuss in the comments #Philadelphia #MOVE #Osage #History #TwoFifteen