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During a panel interview at a set visit in early December, cast members from the series including Run Hide Fight actor Olly Sholotan [Carolton Banks], spoke with HipHopDX about how music from multiple artists played a role in the early production of the show.

critically acclaimed album The Melodic Blue last September, he triggered a domino effect. Not only did the record infiltrate Billboard by cracking the Hot 100 and Hot R&B and Hip Hop songs Charts among others, it quickly became a trending topic on Twitter and morphed into a source for memes based on listeners reception of Kendrick Lamars unique ad-libs. Both Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar got the last laugh in the end as The Melodic Blue debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200and Range Brothers continued to carry on a life of its own by becoming the go-to banger for everyone from The Weekendto the cast of Peacocks upcoming Bel-Air series. During a panel interview with HipHopDX at a set visit in early December, cast members from the series such as Run Hide Fight actor Olly Sholotan , spoke about how music from multiple artists played a role in the early production of the show. Starting off with K Dot and Keem, Olly Sholotan explained how Range Brothers helped him bond with Jabari Banks, who has assumed the reimagined, dramatized role of Will Smiths character from the original 90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The first, the week when we started filming was when Range Brothers came out, he said. And the first week was pretty much me and Bari and it was just all Range Brothers the whole time, which is just really funny. And still now its like, Top the morning, top the morning, . A post shared by Bel Air Peacock (@belairpeacock) Olly also revealed artists such as Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and none other than The Weeknd, were also mainstays on his personal playlists in addition to the playlists created for his character, the new Carlton Banks. Just because I love sharing music, I love Saint JHN right now, he said in part. I think Blinding Lights is the best song that has ever been written.Go The Weekend go Max Martin. Thats just me personally. But for Carlton, I made a playlist. It was so funny because I always make playlists. And then one day, Morgan also was like, Hey, I dont know if you like playlists, but I made this playlist for Carlton, and like seven of the songs that were on his playlist were on mine Olly continued, detailing the specific tracks So it coincided perfectly with mine. We both had a lot of Kanye West for Carlton, specifically Hold My Liquor. A lot of Kid Cudi. Its funny, though, No Kids See Ghosts, but both of them have that sort of dark duality. The first teasers for Bel-Air have all featured Hip Hop-facing soundtrack choices, with the original trailer adapting J. Coles 2014 Forrest Hills Drive classic No Role Modelz and subsequent trailers featuring music from Grammy Award-winning superstar Nas and Philadelphia rap mainstay Meek Mill. Along with songs from Kid Cudi and Meek Mill, one of Joyner Lucas 2020 singles has become intertwined with the arrival of the series thanks to the shows executive producer, Will Smith. On Thursday (February 9), the entire cast celebrated the premiere of Bel-Air with a drive-in screening event in Santa Monica and Will took the stage and stole the show by rapping his verse from Joyners Will (Remix) track. Read more