{"id":490646,"date":"2019-09-27T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=891893"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T21:16:52","slug":"swizz-beatz-rick-ross-dmx-team-up-for-godfather-of-harlem-theme-just-in-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/swizz-beatz-rick-ross-dmx-team-up-for-godfather-of-harlem-theme-just-in-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Swizz Beatz, Rick Ross, DMX Team Up for \u2018Godfather of Harlem\u2019 Theme \u2018Just in Case\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/swizzgodfather.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/swizz-beatz\/\">Swizz Beatz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rick-ross\/\">Rick Ross<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dmx\/\">DMX<\/a> have released a new collaboration, \u201cJust in Case,\u201d from the soundtrack to the upcoming crime drama series&nbsp;<em>Godfather of Harlem<\/em>. The show premieres Sunday, September 29th on EPIX.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the show\u2019s star Forest Whitaker, the video for \u201cJust in Case\u201d takes the three artists back to Harlem in 1963, where Malcolm X was spreading his anti-racist message just as crime boss Bumpy Johnson was taking on the Genovese crime family. Rick Ross and DMX deck themselves out in fur coats and cigars, while Swizz Beatz sings a soaring chorus backed by a church choir.<\/p>\n<p>Two more songs from the&nbsp;<em>Godfather of Harlem<\/em> soundtrack were released today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q6l5zVh62dg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBusiness Is Business,\u201d<\/a> from Dave East and A$AP Ferg, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nHfKtHe6Rd8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSaints and Shadows,\u201d<\/a> from Swizz Beatz and Emeli Sand\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Swizz Beatz appeared in the video for Common\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/common-hercules-video-swizz-beatz-872451\/\">\u201cHercules,\u201d<\/a> from&nbsp;<em>Let Love<\/em>. He also was featured on Rick Ross\u2019s latest album,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rick-ross-port-of-miami-2-track-list-meek-mill-nipsey-hussle-866537\/\"><em>Port of Miami 2<\/em><\/a>, along with Meek Mill, Drake, Teyana Taylor, Wale, the late Nipsey Hussle and more. Earlier this year, DMX set out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dmx-its-dark-and-hell-is-hot-tour-789999\/\">a 32-date tour<\/a> to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his landmark debut album <em>It\u2019s Dark and Hell Is Hot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/swizz-beatz-rick-ross-dmx-godfather-of-harlem-just-in-case-891893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swizz Beatz, Rick Ross and DMX have released a new collaboration, \u201cJust in Case,\u201d from the soundtrack to the upcoming crime drama series&nbsp;Godfather of Harlem. The show premieres Sunday, September 29th on EPIX. Featuring the show\u2019s star Forest Whitaker, the video for \u201cJust in Case\u201d takes the three artists back to Harlem in 1963, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 16:33:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}