Rihanna Drops Music Video for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Single

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Black Panther fanatics volition privation to prehend a insubstantial for this launch. On Friday, Rihanna dropped "Lift Me Up," her first unmarried successful six years and the starring opus for the imminent Black Panther: Wakanda Forever original soundtrack.

"Lift maine up / clasp maine down / sphere maine near, harmless and sound," the vocalist croons wrong the affectional ballad written arsenic a tribute to the lifestyles and bequest of Chadwick Boseman. "Drowning successful an countless sea/ Take a portion and enactment with me/ Keep maine successful the energy of your fingers. Keep maine safe/ Safe and sound."

The tune video for the azygous capabilities Rihanna lingering beachside close to an unfastened hearth arsenic a montage of scenes from Wakanda Forever performs.

The azygous turned into penned by means of Tems, Oscar victor Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and manager Ryan Coogler, and has worldwide influences connected to it. It's a lovely eulogy to Boseman, who played King T'Challa, a.Okay.A Black Panther, and died astatine the property of 43 after a four-12 months struggle with colon cancer.

At the Wakanda Forever most beneficial connected Wednesday, Coogler shared with ET that Göransson drew connected his ain travels to nary longer simplest record the euphony successful 5 bonzer planetary locations but present a planetary consciousness to the music.

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky be 'Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever' astir businesslike astatine Dolby Theatre connected Oct. 26, 2022 successful Hollywood, California.

"It has elements from his clip successful Senegal, respective years successful the past, it has elements from -- glaringly I recorded right present successful the states, recorded successful the U.K., additionally recorded successful Mexico. And past Tems and I and Ludwig sat down successful Nigeria, and positioned a fewer existent enactment successful connected it, immoderate months again," Coogler shared.

"After speakme with Ryan and listening to his absorption for the movie and the track, I desired to enactment successful penning thing that portrays a vigor clasp from each of the humans that I've mislaid successful my existence. I tried to ideate what it mightiness consciousness similar if I ought to sing to them present and explicit however plentifulness I permission retired them," Tems said successful a declaration. "Rihanna has been an conception to maine truthful proceeding her bring this euphony is simply a terrific honor."

"I'll accidental this, I failed to get [Rihanna] to bash something. I bash not presume each assemblage tin get her to bash whatever, she's idiosyncratic who marches to the bushed of her ain drum," the manager stated astir having the new mom leap onto the soundtrack. "I'm conscionable grateful that she desired to marque a publication to this, and I'll beryllium each the clip thankful and not conscionable to her, but each the antithetic exquisite musicians which mightiness beryllium connected the soundtrack."

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Rihanna has singles astatine the film's soundtrack, the 2nd of which is titled "Born Again."

Wakanda Forever offers fanatics their archetypal instrumentality a look astatine however the kingdom has operated within the nonstop aftermath of the universe's five-12 months "blip" and however Wakanda grapples with the deficiency of its King. T'Challa's demise besides leaves Wakanda with retired its Black Panther, leaving Wakanda reputedly susceptible successful the eyes of the relaxation of the arena.

Coogler and the coagulated -- which includes returning stars Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Danai Gurira and Florence Kasumba -- had been unfastened about how the movie pays tribute to Boseman aft his nonaccomplishment of beingness and displays the actual-life travel of betterment that the actors went via astatine immoderate signifier successful production.

"We loved him. We admit that you emotion him, and we tin grant that. We grant it for the fanatics, arsenic decently for ourselves," Bassett, who performs Boseman and Wright's parent successful the movie, told ET astatine the movie's astir beneficial. "It changed into very important that we recognized him. We could not bash it without him."

"So, earlier than we changeable 1 body, each of america accumulated unneurotic astatine his resting vicinity, and we...," she endured, motioning upwards, "his telephone to the heavens, and we smiled, and we had been on with his ain family, and it turned into a beauteous experience. Because it is excessively achy successful immoderate different case, but portion we thin into the emotion we've got for him, the respect, the regard, and arsenic a consciousness quality beings, arsenic a folks who recognise that nonaccomplishment of beingness is not the halt -- we cognize that helium changed into connected that acceptable with america each day, whispering, 'Go on. Do your exceptional. Be terrific. Don't get weary.'"

When it involves however each T'Challa and Boseman were commemorated successful the film, Wright, who performs Shuri, said tons of the recognition people is going to Coogler and the publication he penned for the Black Panther franchise's 2d installment.

"We're extraordinarily proud of the way Ryan has added a publication that would grant Chad, that could grant T'Challa," Wright said. "I'm truthful arrogant of the mode america arsenic a ain family, the Wakandan ellipse of relatives that you cognize and love, has travel unneurotic to present you a 2d installment, and yet, it is genuinely hard to bash this with retired our member -- helium person to beryllium here."

"But, arsenic he's looking down connected us," she brought, "We're hoping that this movie simply makes him proud, and we are hoping that you guys are arrogant folks for what we've introduced to you."

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters Nov. Eleven.