December 3, 2021 astatine 10:00 am
(ViacomCBS) – VH1 presents Hip Hop Family Christmas airing Monday, December 6th astatine 9PM ET/PT. Hip Hop Family Christmas stars Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, Terrence J, Serayah, MC Lyte, Redman and much successful a movie telling the communicative of Hip-Hop’s astir celebrated household aft they hold to enactment successful a unrecorded Christmas tv peculiar to code antagonistic property and soften their image.
CBS‘ Matt Weiss spoke to Hilson astir Hip Hop Family Christmas and her ain idiosyncratic favourite Christmas movies.
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MW- Hi Keri! Hip Hop Family Christmas comes to VH1 connected Monday, December 6th and alongside yourself we person enforcement produced by Jamie Foxx and besides stars Ne-Yo, Serayah and Terrence J to sanction a few. How overmuch amusive wasn’t moving with this group?
KH- So fun! First of all, we were successful the Christmas tone already and Terrence J would bring his boombox and acceptable it disconnected to the broadside truthful erstwhile they would outcry chopped helium would play a Christmas opus and helium truly got america successful the successful the mood. But Terrence J and Ne-Yo are friends of excavation truthful I got to enactment with my friends.
I besides made caller friends with MC Lyte and Redman who play my parent and father. Films are tough, they’re grueling days, you’re precise slumber deprived, particularly erstwhile you’re the pb actor. But having a formed who’s awesome similar these radical it’s truly the cherry connected top…or I should accidental the prima connected apical of the tree.
MW- Very seasonally appropriate! Now we cognize there’s an Easter ovum to look for with Terrence J’s boombox.
KH- You’ll ne'er spot it [laughs]. He did a precise bully occupation of hiding it.
MW- I’ll inactive effort anyways [laughs]. So present america to your character…
KH- My quality is Jessica Nixon. She’s a TV enforcement arsenic she straps her household connected her backmost and makes a reasonably bully effort astatine trying to combat the rumors and antagonistic property that her household finds themselves in. She’s got the close thought and we get to spot the hijinx ensue due to the fact that it doesn’t rather spell arsenic the Nixon’s planned.
MW- Never does, right?
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KH- No, it ne'er does [laughs].
MW- Hopefully your quality successful this movie volition go a portion of people’s vacation traditions. I’m funny for you, what are immoderate of your favourite Christmas movies looking back?
KH- Oh my gosh. Now clasp connected due to the fact that It’s not ace Christmasy but it gets maine successful the spirit; Coming To America. I cognize that whitethorn beryllium odd, but each twelvemonth I indispensable ticker Coming To America astir Christmas time. My different apical prime is Home Alone. I deliberation those would beryllium my 2 favorite, I could recite Home Alone connection for word.
MW- And present Hip Hop Family Christmas volition hopefully beryllium the Home Alone for others, what bash you anticipation that radical instrumentality distant from this movie?
KH- You know, there’s a beardown thread of household that it teaches america to beryllium honorable and protective of our household and dainty our household members similar a bully friend. That done enactment for maine was precise redeeming to play and to recognize adjacent arsenic myself, arsenic Keri.
So this movie is astir honoring your household and not surviving for the satellite oregon cognition extracurricular of your door. Being honorable wrong you family’s walls.
MW- Absolutely thing we tin each usage a reminder for, particularly this clip of year. Thank you truthful overmuch for the clip contiguous Keri. Looking guardant to the movie and Merry Christmas!
KH- Thank you truthful much!
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Tune successful for Hip Hop Family Christmas connected VH1 airing Monday, December 6th astatine 9PM ET/PT. Check your section listing for much information.