Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes and Lord Afrixana are just a few of the artists whose music is featured in thethird season of MGM+’s 1960s-set “Godfather of Harlem.” “I don’t pick artists based on their nam…
In putting the show’s sonic landscape together, Beatz says he tried to be thoughtful when using a placement. “Music is so powerful and with this, I wanted to use it to give the characters an authentic landscape,” he says.
Bumpy Johnson, played by Forest Whitaker, is the notorious crime boss who, in the third season, is fighting to keep control of Harlem. Beatz wanted the music to “become the voice inside Forest’s head and to be a part of the character.” Based around the season’s cold open, the song harkens back to the timelessness of East Coast hip-hop and features Bumpy’s anthem. In the scene, Bumpy and his cohorts pull off a bank truck robbery. “Bumpy has lost everything and he has to get money, hustle, repeat,” explains Beatz. “The song is what Bumpy is thinking in his head, ‘I gotta get it and get back on my feet,’ and that’s how it came about.
He recruited SAINt JHN, Fivio Foreign and BIA for “Street Opera,” a club vibes tune. For that placement, Beatz says, “I wanted to give the youth something they could think and feel. It’s so dramatic and dangerous. Fivio went crazy on the track, and I thought it would grab the scene and sit well in the show.”
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