Cooper also wrote episodes of Netflix's 'She's Gotta Have It' series.
, Cooper transitioned to penning screenplays drawing on the crime and culture of his native New York. His Harlem Trilogy of crime dramas were among the definitive Black films of the 1990s, and became hugely influential on hip hop music and culture.Born in Harlem, New York, Cooper grew up in the Little Washington Heights neighborhood and also lived in Esplanade Gardens.
After spending one year at North Carolina Central University, where he became well versed in the New Journalism movement, Cooper became a journalist in the early 1980s and wrote pieces for, Cooper remembered bringing to Christgau’s attention a new type of music that was becoming rapidly popular in the Bronx. “I had this conversation with Bob Christgau in January of ’80. I said, “There’s some music coming out of the Bronx called rap music. This is going to be a game changer.
As well as from music journalism, Cooper also made his name with impactful investigative reporting. In 1986, Cooper was behind the feature story“When the story came in it was so well written and reported, and so alien from anything I had heard of, that I feared the writer made it up. The story was too good, too intact, too many colorful characters, too much dramatic, instant devastation,” Bob Guccione Jr., founder ofwrote in 2015 about Cooper’s story.
With Cooper’s rewrites, notably changing the drug at the center of the film from heroin to crack, the script would become, his first screenplay. Made for a budget of $8 million and debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, the film starred Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown, the leader of ruthless Harlem street gang the Cash Money Brothers that builds a powerful empire built on crack.
After that initial burst of success, it would be some years before Cooper was able to make his next film project. Now relocated to Baltimore, in 2005, he made his directorial debut in the indiefor Netflix. Cooper worked as a producer on the show and also wrote three episodes.Laurie Brookins. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.
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