Kier Lehman, whose résumé includes Entourage, CSI, Being Mary Jane, and The Night Of, has been soundtracking TV series and films for over a decade his current job as music supervisor for Insecure reunites him with HBO and has won him over a whole new audience. In its inaugural year, music supervisors for Girls, Big Little Lies, Master of None, Stranger Things, and Better Call Saul were all nominated. Habermehl, Mereba and others.For this first time in its history, the Emmys are set to recognize music supervision on television as an art form, awarding the crucial job of shaping a show’s sound its own category for Outstanding Music Supervision. The soundtrack for the final season included a fresh track from TeaMarrr and a new Saweetie single, “Get It Girl,” as well as contributions from Thundercat, They, Nnena, Josh Levi, B.K. Raedio’s most recent release, “Insecure: Music From The HBO Original Series, Season 5,” came out Dec. Initial artists on the roster included TeaMarrr and Yung Baby Tate (who has subsequently shortened her name to Baby Tate and moved to the Warner Records lineup). Rae announced her partnership with Atlantic Records for the Raedio label in October 2019. “So in some ways, there are parallels to my own journey, but the music world is so different and twisted and crazy, as I’m learning myself.” “It’s set in the indie music world and it’s a completely different world, a very different story of still friendship, but trying to make it an industry that doesn’t see it for you,” Rae told the Times. In a separate interview with the newspaper, Rae talked about the HBO Max series she just completed filming, “ Rap Sh*t.” The new series, in which she does not appear on-camera, has the two members of the hip-hop duo City Girls as executive producers. As a music lover, nothing excites me more than feeling like you’re on to an artist first. And then, of course, I do my own digging for people that I love.
Kier (Lehman, the show’s music supervisor) has put me on to so many new artists that I felt get the sound of the show. Looking back on the series, Rae said, “We highlighted female singers and rappers in a distinct way when others weren’t - I’m thinking about TT the Artist and Kari Faux in Season 1… That was one of the mandates - L.A.
Rae had plenty of good words for individual artists in the interview, singling out, naturally, the 2021 successes of Jazmine Sullivan, who recorded a title song for “Insecure” in Season 2 with Bryson Tiller, saying, “She’s just literally pure talent.” Rae also cited Don Toliver and Cleo Sol as personal musical favorites from this year. I can’t speak to why it didn’t make it, but I do really love the record.” Asked about the omission in a recent interview with Billboard, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Wizkid’s “Essence” was nominated for a Grammy for best global music performance, but not record of the year. To see Black people and our contributions to music not celebrated in the way they should be - I mean, these aren’t institutions for us.” What are you rewarding?’ This is dumb, but I’ll say it anyway: A song like ‘Essence’ - just absolutely a powerhouse, and yet could not be properly acknowledged by the institution that is supposed to celebrate the best in music - that trips me out. When I think about the Grammys and these other systems that are designed to reward artistic creativity and uplift artists, I just feel like, ‘Y’all don’t get it. “What really bums me out - and this aligns with Hollywood - is the way that music is rewarded. Rae also knocked the Grammys in the interview, and singled out one record in particular she thought had been unfairly snubbed. And to find out how artists were treated on other labels … When I myself am a creator and know what I want in relation to a relationship with a production company or a producer, I would like to think that we are more artist-friendly than much of other brands and companies out there. “I do not want to be too specific, but even with making our own appointments with labels or artists, it would be so intricate. Rae did not get into her dismay with the music business beyond generalities, but indicated her feelings were based on a combination of her own experiences setting up soundtracks and hearing from artists about what they deal with on a regular basis.
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