Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis Announce Album Inspired By The Warriors, Executive Produced By Nas
The extremely successful multi-hyphenate Lin-Manuel Miranda has been widely credited for bringing hip-hop to Broadway with In The Heights and Hamilton, and now he’s making a record of his own. This fall, Miranda and fellow New York theater power-player Eisa Davis will release a new album based on the great 1979 Walter Hill movie The Warriors.
For the forthcoming album Warriors, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis worked with some very big names. New York rap legend Nas is the album’s executive producer, and its producer is Mike Elizondo, the veteran musician and producer who’s worked closely with everyone from Dr. Dre to Fiona Apple to Turnstile. Miranda and Davis describe Warriors as a “concept album,” and it’ll follow the story of the Warriors, the Coney Island gang who were framed for assassination and who must spend a single night fighting their way back home from the Bronx while all of New York’s other gangs try to kill them.
Eisa Davis, niece of the civil rights leader Angela Davis, is a Pulitzer-finalist playwright and an Obie-winning actor. She wrote the play Bulrusher, and she wrote and starred in the stage memoir Angela’s Mixtape. She’s also got a bunch of screen credits, both as an actor and writer. In a press release, Miranda and Davis say that they’ve spent three years “musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home.” The result is a 26-song album, and the two writers say that it’ll feature their “favorite artists,” though they haven’t named them yet. Maybe we’ll get Miranda’s buddies the Decemberists as the Baseball Furies.
Warriors is out 10/18 on Atlantic.