Producers Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (best known for A Tribe Called Quest) have collaborated in the past. But in 2016, the two were asked to compose the score for the Netflix series with Marvel and ABC Studios, Marvel’s Luke Cage. One of the 45 songs scored for the album included a track called ‘Bulletproof Love’ where they get Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man to drop some lines about Harlem’s “Power Man”.

In 2018, the duo released an eponymous album under the name of The Midnight Hour. The Midnight Hour is a paean to the Harlem Renaissance. The first single off of it, “Questions,” features CeeLo Green. While still in development, Kendrick Lamar heard the song and wanted to sample it, using it for 2016’s “untitled 06 | 06.30.2014..”