Def Jam Recordings will issue the soundtrack for “The Hate U Give” on Oct.
12, featuring new songs by the rising stars Arlissa and Bobby Sessions (pictured above).
The 20th Century-Fox film – which takes its title from Tupac Shakur’s acronym Thug Life, and deals with highly charged racial issues – opens a week later, on Oct.
19.“It’s a natural fit for what we do as a company, and the culture of our company,” Rich Isaacson, exec VP of the label, tells Variety.
“The movie is about race, about people who are victims of oppression who are just trying to live their lives.
So many of our artists speak to these issues, from the beginning of Def Jam to today.”The film, and the album, features hip-hop and R&B tracks from Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Logic, Jadakiss and others.
Arlissa’s “We Won’t Move” and Sessions’ “The Hate U Give,
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