Nipsey Hussle and Jay-Z’s collaboration will appear on the soundtrack for Judas and the Black Messiah this Friday
Judas and the Black Messiah will be released this Friday along with the soundtrack. The track listing has some star studded features in the likes of BJ The Chicago Kid, Masego, H.E.R, as well as a notable collaboration between Jay-Z and the late Nipsey Hussle. Nas teamed up with producer Hit-Boy for the song ‘E.P.M.D.’ The record pays homage to the New York hip-hop duo E.P.M.D. – aka Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith – who released seven LPs between 1988 and 2008.
*Ahem lemme get in my Black history duffle real quick. To be on the soundtrack to Judas The Black Messiah is a huge honor! "Somethin' Aint Right" Is the tune. And to share this moment with the Queen @rapsody and my good Brutha @JIDsv makes this moment even better! pic.twitter.com/udzc5QaPOe
— Maségo (@UncleSego) February 9, 2021
Daniel Kaluuya recently spoke about portraying Fred Hampton, working with director Shaka King and more forJudas and the Black Messiah. The actoralso addressed criticismhe has faced for being a British actor portraying the late African-American activist.
“…it’s triggering for generations of African-Americans, and you have to address it, and accept it, and have the conversation, and then interrogate your reasons for doing a project, and your reasons why you’re going in, and going, ‘Do the pros outweigh the cons of it?’ And then if it does, then you move forward,” he said in an interview withDeadline. “If you don’t, then you don’t. That’s why I don’t ignore the conversation. I try not to block it and ignore the conversation, let it flow. I just believe that we are stronger together as a diaspora. And I want to help that union, and if people don’t want to unite, then that’s what they want. I can’t force them.”
Kaluuya also spoke about how he traveled to Chicago to received the Hampton family’s blessing to portray him.
Judas and the Black Messiah will be released on February 12, 2021, on HBO Max and in theaters.
