Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the Disney Junior short-form animated series Rise Up, Sing Out. The album features the original songs from the show written and produced by Ahmir ‘”Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter (of the Grammy Award winning musical group The Roots) who also appear in the series as animated characters. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 4. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. Rise Up, Sing Out executive produced by Questlove, Black Thought & Latoya Raveneau follows a group of neighborhood friends of multiple ethnicities and tells eight stories that directly reflect the realities of the world kids live in today.
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Original Song ‘American Heartbreak’ by Black Thought feat. Ledisi from HBO’s ‘Between the World and Me’ Released
Passyunk Productions and Human Re Sources have released the original end credits song American Heartbreak from the HBO special Between the World and Me. The track is performed by Black Thought feat. Ledisi and co-written by themselves, James Poyser and Salaam Remi. Visit Apple Music/iTunes to stream/download the song. Between the World and Me directed by Kamilah Forbes is based on the 2018 adaptation and staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 book of the same title at the Apollo Theater and combines elements of the stage production, including readings from Coates’ book, which recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city and his growing fear of daily violence against the Black community, and incorporates documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.