Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis have teamed up with Nas and producer Mike Elizondo for Warriors, a brand new hip-hop idea album primarily based on the 1979 movieΒ The Warriors. The album might be out in every single place on October 18th by way of Atlantic Information.
The unique movieΒ The Warriors was tailored from Sol Yurickβs 1965 novel of the identical identify, and follows a New York Metropolis road gang as they journey from Coney Island to the Bronx and again when they’re framed for the homicide of a revered gang chief, Cyrus. Now, Lin-Manuel Miranda and playwright and actress Eisa Davis have taken the gangβs multi-hour, 30 mile journey and tailored it right into a musical rating.
Nas serves as government producer with Mike Elizondo assuming duties behind the boards. The challenge guarantees an βimmersiveβ listening expertise, in addition to βstar-studded solid of voicesβ lending their skills to Warriors, however no names have been revealed but.
βWeβve spent the previous three years musicalizing the Warriorsβ journey dwelling, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,β say creators Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis. βAlongside the way in which weβve gotten to work with loads of our favourite artists, and weβll be asserting their roles on the album within the weeks forward. We willβt wait to share these songs with you on October 18th.β
Lin-Manuel Miranda beforehand expressed curiosity in adaptingΒ The Warriors for a stage musical, withΒ Selection confirming final yr that theΒ Hamilton scribe was engaged on music for it. Itβs becoming supply materials for the Washington Heights native, who has now written a number of musical initiatives set in New York Metropolis. Apart from Warriors, Miranda most lately produced and wrote new songs for Disneyβs stay motion remake ofΒ The Little Mermaid.
