Rihanna releases Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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Rihanna has released her first solo single in six years, a song from the soundtrack to the upcoming Black Panther sequel.

Lift Me Up has been released Friday after the singer teased her return to music on social media earlier this week.

The song will appear in Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which should be released in November.

Director Ryan Coogler said Rihanna's involvement in the project was to honor the late actor Chadwick Boseman.

"Honestly, I think it was Chad," he said. "A lot of unlikely things had to happen for this to happen and Rihanna was very clear that she did it for him."

Boseman starred in the first Black Film Panther and also appeared in Da 5 Bloods, 21 Bridges and the James Brown biopic Get On Up.

He died in 2020, four years after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Last year, Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Coogler added, "We knew that [Rihanna] was her life too where she was focused on different things – business-oriented, motherhood, which is a big theme in our movie, and we kept hoping that maybe it could work out and boy did it. did for this song...