Rolling Stone How Topaz Jones Made the Next Great Visual Album
Hip-hop artist Topaz Jones had one hit. Now, with the help of director-duo rubberband., he has an award-winning film
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During one particularly striking moment in New Jersey musician Topaz Jones’s stunning short film
Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, Jones’s grandmother, Emma Janice Jones, reveals the riches that evaded their family. Jones’s great great grandfather, Marshall Jones, was a cotton farmer who saw an entire season’s yield destroyed by the rain. The interview comes towards the end of the film, part of a constellation of vignettes and interviews that serve to place the 27-year-old musician in a context both familial and historic. The Roots’ Black Thought muses on intellectual property, and a child is teleported home after the streetlights come on.
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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.”
Whole Lotta Red track âSlay3râ with a full band and dancers as a circle of small flames blazed behind them. Watch it go down below.
Tonightâs episode of
Fallon happened to fall on Questloveâs 50th birthday. During the show, the Rootsâ Black Thought gifted him a heart-shaped ruby brooch. Jimmy Fallon gave him Morris Dayâs mirror, signed by Morris Day himself. Watch that below, too.
Whole Lotta Red is Cartiâs follow-up to 2018âs
Die Lit. The new 24-track LP features appearances from Kid Cudi, Future, and Kanye West, with production from Piâerre Bourne, Art Dealer, F1lthy, Juberlee, Richie Souf, Wheezy, and more.
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