AMERICAN GANGSTER
SOUNDTRACK ALBUM TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 6 BY ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP
DRAMA STARRING OSCAR® WINNERS DENZEL WASHINGTON AND RUSSELL CROWE
ARRIVES IN THEATERS ON NOVEMBER 2
New single, “Do You Feel Me” by Anthony Hamilton, composed by Diane
Warren, impacts at Urban AC radio on October 1st
Album also features classic blues, R&B, soul and hip-hop from Lowell
Fulson, John Lee Hooker, Bobby Womack, Sam & Dave, the Staple Singers,
and Public Enemy; plus new tracks by Hank Shocklee and Marc Streitenfeld
Already on the short list as one of the most hotly anticipated films of
fall 2007, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s upcoming
cinematic event AMERICAN GANGSTER opens on November 2. The film teams
Oscar® winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe to tell the true
story of criminal mastermind Frank Lucas, who came up from the streets
of New York in the ’70s. It is produced by Academy Award®-winning
producer Brian Grazer and directed and produced by Ridley Scott.
On Tuesday, November 6, the Island Def Jam Music Group will release the
AMERICAN GANGSTER original motion picture soundtrack album. Impacting at
Urban AC radio on October 1st will be the first single and opening
track, “Do You Feel Me,” composed by mega-platinum Grammy-winning and
Oscar®-nominated songwriter Diane Warren, and performed by six-time
Grammy-nominated platinum artist Anthony Hamilton.
In addition to Hamilton, the AMERICAN GANGSTER album features classic
blues, R&B, soul and hip-hop tracks from Lowell Fulson, John Lee Hooker,
Bobby Womack, Sam & Dave, the Staple Singers, and Public Enemy, plus new
cuts by composer Marc Streitenfeld and by DJ-turned-producer Hank
Shocklee, who was extensively involved with the project.
In addition to the four original pieces that Shocklee co-wrote and
produced under his own name, he also produced both new tracks by Anthony
Hamilton (the single “Do You Feel Me” and “Stone Cold”) as well as
Public Enemy’s Def Jam classic of 1991, “Can’t Truss It.” As a member of
the original Bomb Squad production team (with his brother Keith, Public
Enemy’s Chuck D, and Eric ‘Vietnam’ Sadler) Shocklee was at the boards
for some of rap and hip-hop’s greatest Def Jam releases by Public Enemy,
LL Cool J, 3rd Bass, EPMD, Slick Rick, Alyson Williams, and others; as
well as records by such varied names as Run-DMC, Sinéad O’Connor, Bell
Biv Devoe, Peter Gabriel, Ice Cube, and Yoko Ono.
About the Film
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steven Zaillian and
Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult
figure from the streets of 1970s Harlem in AMERICAN GANGSTER. Washington
stars as Frank Lucas, a courageous entrepreneur and self-made embodiment
of the American Dream who comes from nowhere to rule the inner-city drug
trade, and Crowe is Richie Roberts, an outcast cop zeroing in on who is
outplaying all the familiar Mafia families as he closes in on this
unexpected new streetwise player.
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