Judas and the Black Messiah: Inspired Album features revolutionary songs like H.E.R.’s “Fight For You” and Nipsey Hussle and Jay-Z’s “What It Feels Like.”
Taylor Swift
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
This week, Taylor Swift reimagines her past (literally), Nipsey Hussle and Jay-Z are paired together as hip-hop heroes, and Dua Lipa serves up a deluxe-edition hit. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below:
Taylor Swift, “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)”
While Taylor Swift’s decision to re-record her first six albums marks a fascinating business move and creative choice, for her many fans, the project also provides an excuse to dive back into one of the most captivating discographies in modern pop. “Love Story (Taylor’s Version),” from the upcoming re-recorded version of 2008’s
Jay-Z and Nipsey Hussle. CREDIT: Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images
A new Jay-Z and Nipsey Hussle collaboration called ‘What It Feels Like’ is being released later this week.
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Set to appear on the soundtrack for
Judas And The Black Messiah, it joins a number of other tracks featuring high-profile artists, including Nas, Rapsody, H.E.R., A$AP Rocky, Polo G, Black Thought and more.
The soundtrack, which arrives on Friday (February 12), is executive produced by Hit-Boy, Dash Sherrod,
Black Panther’s Ryan Coolger, and Archie Davis.
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Jay-Z’s DJ and engineer, Young Guru, shared the news on Instagram earlier today (February 9), writing: “This Friday new music from Hussle X Hov. What a soundtrack. All of my people are heavy on here.”
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Jay-Z, Nipsey Hussle Collab Joins Golden Globe-Nominated H.E.R. on Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album
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A week after guitarist-composer H.E.R.’s era-appropriate “Fight for You” was nominated for a 2021 Golden Globes Award for best song in a motion picture, the full track list for the soundtrack to “Judas and the Black Messiah” has been revealed. “Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album” drops this Friday, Feb. 12 via the Six Course Music Group together with RCA Records.
Executive produced by Hit-Boy (who appears on the new album with “Broad Day”), director-writer Ryan Coogler, Interscope’s VP of A&R Dash Sherrod and RCA Records SVP of marketing Archie Davis, the “Inspired” package features the first-ever collaboration between the late Nipsey Hussle and today’s freshly-anointed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Jay-Z, on the song, “What It Feels Like.”