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    Kendrick Lamar's gripping 'Black Panther' soundtrack joins a tradition of black movie music

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2018 4 minutes

    There's a scene in "Black Panther" - director Ryan Coogler's breathlessly awaited Marvel Comics adaptation that promises to smash box-office records after opening this weekend - in which a bad guy busy raining fire from the passenger seat of a getaway car commands his driver to turn on some music.

    "It's not a funeral," the bad guy sneers, and suddenly we're being pummeled by "Opps," a throbbing, darkly futuristic hip-hop tune by a trio of rappers led by Compton's Kendrick Lamar, who put together the movie's all-star soundtrack and appears on each of its 14 songs.

    The villain's line is a bleak joke of course, but he's dead-on about his surroundings: "Black Panther"

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