For more than 15 years, Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment — literally.
In addition to composing the scores for Marvel’s “Luke Cage,” the James Patterson-inspired series “Cross,” Queen Latifah’s “Equalizer” reboot and the Blaxploitation riff “Black Dynamite” (as well as its animated spinoff), the Los Angeles native’s work as a composer, arranger, producer and performer has fueled tracks by Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, Talib Kweli, Kendrick Lamar and dozens of other rappers. The record label he co-founded with A Tribe Called Quest member Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the cheekily named Jazz Is Dead, was conceived in 2017 not simply to pay tribute to
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