JAY-Z and D’Angelo are set to release a new song, “I Want You Forever,” this Friday (January 12th).
The track appears on the soundtrack to the upcoming JAY-Z produced film The Book of Clarence, and was made as a collaboration with Jeymes Samuel, a musician who also wrote and directed the movie.
“While I was working on The Harder They Fall and all my other projects, the story and the music for The Book of Clarence was always there percolating in my mind,” Samuel said in a previous press release. “There was never a question as to whether I would compose the score and write and perform on the soundtrack, as well as write and direct the movie — it was all one amazing journey where one depended on the other.”
The Book of Clarence arrives in theaters on Friday. JAY-Z and Samuel previously teamed up on Samuel’s feature directorial debut, the 2021 Western The Harder They Fall.
D’Angelo last appeared on Rapsody’s 2019 song “Ibtihaj.” His most recent album, Black Messiah, was released in 2014. Meanwhile, JAY-Z dropped an “Empire State of Mind” remix featuring Gil Scott-Heron last April.