Warriorsthe star-studded concept album inspired by the 1979 cult film The Warriorsmakes a splash Bulletin boarddiagrams of. The set, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, debuts at No. 1 on the Compilation Albums chart and in the top 25 on both the Top Selling Albums chart and Top Current album Sales Chart (all dated November 2 ).
The new 24-song project was released on October 18th and boasts artists such as Cam'ron, Ghostface Killah, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Marc Anthony, Nas, Billy Porter, Busta Rhymes, RZA and Shenseea. Additionally, two cast members from the 1979 film also appear on the album: James Remar and David Patrick Kelly. Warriors it was available for purchase in its first week as a digital download, CD and vinyl LP.
The album was produced by Mike Elizondo and executive produced by Nas.
In The Warriors movie, a Coney Island street gang (The Warriors) must travel to New York to return home while several other gangs try to kill them in revenge for a murder they are falsely accused of. THE Warriors The album changes the gender of the title gang to female, an idea spurred “as a response to seeing GamerGate come out online around 2015,” Miranda said recently. Bulletin board. “Every plot point wrinkle or change in some fundamental way. I was excited by the idea of writing female voices surviving the night.”
Among the voices on the album is Hill, who performs the song “If You Can Count”. The singer-songwriter hasn't released a studio album since 1998 and rarely releases new studio material. Miranda says Hill's track was “the first song we wrote.”
“We had no plan B. We wrote it in Lauryn Hill's voice…the fact that she trusted us and sang the song we wrote will always be one of the greatest honors of our career, but then she added so much of herself to it. , added background vocals. He's a co-producer on this track and earned every bit of it.”
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