A 1983 recording of Prince singing the non secular “Mary Don’t You Weep” seems over the tip credit of Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman, Lee revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith. It soundtracks footage from the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the place activist Heather Hayer was killed whereas counter-protesting.
In the Rolling Stone interview, Lee mentioned how the uncommon track got here to his consideration:
I knew that I wanted an end-credits track. I’ve change into very shut with Troy Carter, one of many executives at
Spotify [and a Prince estate advisor]. So I invited Troy to a personal
screening. And after, he stated, “Spike, I got the song.” And that was
“Mary Don’t You Weep,” which had been recorded on cassette within the
mid-Eighties. Prince needed me to have that track, I don’t care what
no person says. My brother Prince needed me to have that track. For this
movie. There’s no different rationalization to me. This cassette is within the again
of the vaults. In Paisley Park. And impulsively, out of nowhere,
it’s found? Nah-ah. That ain’t an accident.
Check out the complete interview at Rolling Stone.
BlacKkKlansman hits theaters August 10. Prince and Spike Lee had a protracted historical past collectively. Prince did the soundtrack for Lee’s 1996 movie Girl 6 and Lee directed Prince’s 1992 “Money Don’t Matter 2 Night” video.
Prince’s “Mary Don’t You Weep” seems on the newly unearthed reside album Piano & A Microphone: 1983. It’s due out September 21. Hear “Mary Don’t You Weep” under.
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