Public Enemy producer/co-founder Hank Shocklee has crafted the score for "YE! A Jagun Story," the new film from Nigerian-American director John Oluwole Adekoje. Using cutting-edge spatial, surround sound technology from Dolby Atmos, Shocklee provides an immersive experience from the film's start to end. In additional to the score, he also curated the film’s soundtrack, which features emerging Pan-African artists from the U.S, Nigeria and South Africa.
Starring Dakore Akande and longtime DJ for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tony Okungbowa, "YE!" is the origin story of Stellar, the future leader of the Ajumose, a covert, celestial league of brilliant women who use ancestral memory to reconstruct the colonized minds of Black people throughout the diaspora.
The lead single for the film, "Sun Down," arrived on Tuesday (November 1) and can be found below. The film is scheduled for a 2023 premiere.
