An inspired new album conceived by Miranda and Davis combines some of the greatest talents in hip-hop—from Nas to Busta Rhymes and Lauryn Hill—with Broadway stars like Phillipa Soo and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
Walter Hill’s 1979 film The Warriors, based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick, presents a blood-stained map of a New York City ruled by highly territorial gangs. Warriors, a new concept album based on the same story, begins with a dancehall-tinged intro by the Jamaican singer Shenseea, before Bronx-born rapper Chris Rivers hops on the track to rep and introduce his borough. This sets the stage for the next four voices: Nas , Cam’ron , Ghostface Killah and RZA , and Busta Rhymes .
” She connects the idea to “the way many of these gangs became community organizations and became hip-hop crews,” pointing to Benjy Melendez, the real-life president of the Ghetto Brothers who, in 1971, brokered peace between gangs from Harlem and the Bronx. “ became a music group more than a gang,” Davis continues. “That was something we were really looking to: how this gang culture leads to the birth of hip-hop.
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