![]() There were hints of how big this album was going to be at the start of the year when the first single was released. It’s just the first example of how this whole album is not so much a soundtrack as a parallel work that uses the movie more as a series of metaphors or jumping off points. On the title track he is nominally writing in the voice of T’Chella, the fictional African hero of this pioneering black superhero movie, but he could just as easily be speaking about himself as hip-hop’s current king of the culture. Not only that, but the tracks he doesn’t feature on are clearly there under his curatorial hand. The first voice you hear is that of Kendrick Lamar, and it’s his voice you hear more than any other over the fourteen tracks. ![]() It opens with an atmospheric collage, setting the scene for a cast of characters who step out of the soundscape to address their audience in the first person. Black Panther: The Soundtrack Photo: supplied
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