Megan Thee Stallion x Vickeelo Share Official Video for ‘Ride Or Die’
Track Is From Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack, Out TodayToday, Megan Thee Stallion x VickeeLo unveiled the official video for the single “Ride or Die.” The song is from Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack, which will be released by Motown Records today, November 15. Directed by Cam Busby (Wiz Khalifa, Kodak Black), the clip was shot in New Orleans, the city where bounce-style music originated, and Los Angeles. View the video HERE. Pre-order / pre-save Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack HERE.
Starring Oscar® nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Queen & Slim is a powerful, consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence. The film, from GRAMMY®-winning director Melina Matsoukas and Emmy®-winning writer Lena Waithe, which will open AFI Fest in Los Angeles tonight, is due in theaters November 27.
The music in the film serves as an additional voice and showcases the range of talent across Black artists with a compelling blend of genres. The 16-song soundtrack, which has been nominated for a Hollywood Music In Media AwardTM, also features new tracks by Ms. Lauryn Hill, Lil Baby, Vince Staples featuring 6lack X Mereba, Tiana Major 9 & EARTHGANG, Coast Contra featuring BJ The Chicago Kid and Syd, plus classic songs by Roy Ayers, Bilal, Mike Jones and others. Blood Orange composed the film’s score and is featured on the soundtrack.
“Collide,” by Tiana Major9 & EARTHGANG, has amassed over three million combined global streams. Produced by Benny Cassette (Kanye West, John Legend), the track was the #1 Most Added song at Urban AC Radio. It has topped Spotify’s The Newness playlist, placed in Apple Music’s “Me & Bae” playlist and appears on the biggest R&B playlists on Pandora (Top R&B Hits), YouTube Music (R&B Wave) and Amazon (R&B Rotation).
Earlier this week, Zane Lowe debuted Vince Staples’ “Yo Love” feat. 6lack & Mereba as a World First on Apple Music’s Beats 1. Rolling Stone noted, “Staples and 6LACK trade verses on the cut, reflecting on the joys and fears of early relationships over a jazzy guitar sequence…He and Mereba team on the breezy chorus, singing in unison.” Pitchfork found the track “further proof of the rapper’s chameleonic talents.” HotNewHipHop predicted, “This soundtrack is gonna be unreal.”
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.
As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the most dire and desperate of circumstances and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives.
Waithe wrote the screenplay for Queen & Slim from a story by herself and bestselling author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, Katerina). The film is produced by Frey, Waithe, Matsoukas, Michelle Knudsen, Andrew Coles, Brad Weston and Pamela Abdy. The executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Kaluuya, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth. Universal Pictures and Makeready present Queen & Slim in association with 3BlackDot and Bron Creative, a Makeready/De La Revolución Films/Hillman Grad/3BlackDot production.
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