Kendrick Lamar collaborates with SZA for first track of ‘Black Panther’
People were already keen for the release of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther next month and now, it looks like fans will have one more reason to tune in as the movie is all set to get a soundtrack from Kendrick Lamar.
The studio has enlisted Grammy-award winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to curate and produce the soundtrack with Anthony Tiffith, reports the Independent.
The confirmation came with the release of lead single All the Stars by Lamar ft. SZA.
The easy note of the song gives a lounge feeling to it. Shall we expect it to be one of the songs played at a casino when T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is scoping for enemies with his Dora Milaje guards Nakai (Lupita Nyong’o) and Okoye (Danai Gurira)?
But when Lamar’s lyrics go,
Tell me what you gon’ do to me
Confrontation ain’t nothin’ new to me
You can bring a bullet, bring a sword
Bring a morgue, but you can’t bring the truth to me
One can wonder if this is T’Challa addressing a lover or enemy, Erik Killmonger (Michael B Jordan).
In a statement issued by the ‘Humble’ hit-maker, he emphasised how Black Panther is going to be something more than an average superhero movie.
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