{"id":1947481,"date":"2025-08-07T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1947481"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:56:42","slug":"spike-lees-highest-2-lowest-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spike-lees-highest-2-lowest-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee&#8217;s &#8216;Highest 2 Lowest&#8217; Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A$AP acts in the film and also has two songs on the soundtrack, which also features co-star Aiyana-Lee<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aap-rocky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aap-rocky\" data-tag=\"aap-rocky\">A$AP Rocky<\/a>\u2018s long-awaited comeback album, <em>Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/em>, is still nowhere in sight, but he does have two new songs in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spike-lee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spike-lee\" data-tag=\"spike-lee\">Spike Lee<\/a>\u2018s new movie, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/highest-2-lowest\/\" id=\"auto-tag_highest-2-lowest\" data-tag=\"highest-2-lowest\">Highest 2 Lowest<\/a><\/em>, which also features A$AP in a leading role. \u201cTrunks\u201d and \u201cBoth Eyes Closed\u201d will both appear on the film\u2019s soundtrack album, due Aug. 15, the same day the movie hits theaters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Highest 2 Lowest | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sh8yqcozfn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe thriller, which reinterprets Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1963 kidnapping drama\u00a0<em>High and Low<\/em>, is set in the music business, with Washington playing a legendary label exec. A$AP, meanwhile, plays an aspiring rapper turned kidnapper. \u201cYeah, don\u2019t sleep on A$AP,\u201d Lee recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYapGLdNdvo\" target=\"_blank\">told <\/a>Jimmy Fallon during a <em>Tonight Show <\/em>appearance. \u201cIn this film, Denzel and A$AP go toe-to-toe\u2026 I\u2019ve done five films with Denzel, and a lot of times when he\u2019s in a scene with somebody, they just get overwhelmed. He\u2019s one of the greatest living actors today, but A$AP wasn\u2019t having that. I mean, they were going at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHighest 2 Lowest is Lee\u2019s fifth collaboration with Washington, and the director expects it to be the last. \u201cIt\u2019s been a blessing to have this body of work of us doing films that the people love,\u201d he said at a Cannes press conference. \u201cI think this is it \u2014 five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe soundtrack also includes music from singer Aiyana-Lee (who makes her acting debut in the movie after Lee (no relation) discovered her on Instagram), a song from singer\/songwriter Jensen McRae, and multiple tracks from the Fergus McCreadle Trio, a jazz band led by Scottish pianist McCreadle, also discovered by Lee on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, A$AP is continuing his acting career in another upcoming movie, October\u2019s <em>If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/em>, which also stars Conan O\u2019Brien and Rose Byrne. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-trailer-rose-byrne-asap-rocky-1235401669\/\">trailer to that film<\/a> is out now.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP acts in the film and also has two songs on the soundtrack, which also features co-star Aiyana-Lee A$AP Rocky\u2018s long-awaited comeback album, Don\u2019t Be Dumb, is still nowhere in sight, but he does have two new songs in Spike Lee\u2018s new movie, Highest 2 Lowest, which also features A$AP in a leading role. \u201cTrunks\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1947482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[308494,339738,45167],"class_list":["post-1947481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-aap-rocky","tag-highest-2-lowest","tag-spike-lee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Spike-Lees-Highest-2-Lowest-Soundtrack.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}