Issa Rae on the music business: 'It's an abusive industry... it needs to start over'
LOS ANGELES — Before she had a finished script, a committed cast or even a solid sense of where her characters might go, Issa Rae knew that "Insecure" would have a killer soundtrack.
"That was the only thing I was certain of," says the actor, writer and producer behind the beloved HBO series about a group of young Black women navigating work, romance and friendship in South Los Angeles. "In anything I do, I'm very confident that the music will assist the storytelling," she adds, then laughs. "I'm not always confident in the story itself."
With "Insecure," which concluded Sunday night with a highly anticipated series finale, Rae, 36, wanted to channel the spirit of some of the classic soundtracks of the 1990s, "when music really, really mattered in movies and television shows," as she puts it. As examples, she points to
