The new trailer for DC’s Black Adam debuted on Wednesday (June 8) and Watch The Throne fans were in for a pleasant surprise when it dropped, as JAY-Z and Kanye West’s track “Murder To Excellence” soundtracked the entire trailer.
The use of the song seemed intentional. The track’s first half details the cycles of poverty and violence within Black communities, whereas the second half hones in on how certain Black figures escaped said hardships, such as Ye and Hov. Black Adam himself was a slave in ancient Egypt before he was killed, and has since returned 5,000 years later as a God with insane superpowers, refusing to bow down to anyone ever again.
Watch The Throne has been hailed as one of the greatest collab records of all time. When it was released in 2011, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, moving 436,000 copies in its first week. As of 2020, the project has been certified 5x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and rumors of an elusive sequel have been spreading since 2018.
