Fifty years of Watts musical history, in one film.
The Roc Era Choir: created with children from each of Watts’ four major housing projects, who, for this film, sang together for the first time.
The Watts musicians in the score.
“I was born in Watts. I set one rule: every piece of music in this film would be made by Watts, for Watts. Not as a gesture of representation, but as an act of authorship.”
Every cue ties back to something Watts already made. When Meryland Gonzalez walks back through the projects she grew up in, the music reaches not for sentiment but for lineage — jazz, a tribute to the Watts-raised Charles Mingus. Watts is more than its hardship; it is a wellspring of genius.
The score, cue by cue.
Twenty original cues, one original song, and six licensed selections — every one of them out of Watts.
Every block is a cue. Tap one and the film plays from its timecode — the music and the scene it was written for, together.
Every block is a cue. Tap anywhere on the strip to start the film there — or pick a cue by name below.
Play cues
Calling All Cars
The soundtrack.
The original motion picture soundtrack, including music from:
ScHoolboy Q
Leon Thomas
Rosemarie
Kehlani
Jhené Aiko
Victoria Monét
Rapsody
Chris Brown
SiR
Kenyon Dixon
