She’s unpredictable: there are some things that you think could happen and you want to happen, but you don’t know if it’s gonna happen for her. What did you think of her arc this season? She’s in and out of this open relationship with Dro while she’s turning down nice guys that seem better for her. In your post-episode Wine Down with Issa, you said Molly was your favorite character. I like to score when Molly’s in her office, like when she’s walking somewhere. I like to come in and out of those scenes a lot. I love when she’s talking in the mirror to this other version of herself, that character in her head. I like composing for Issa when she says something that’s really out there. Who’s your favorite Insecure character to compose for? Sometimes it’s a lot of needle drops, sometimes it’s more scoring. Everybody’s there, the editors, directors, showrunner. I sit in on all the meetings about sound and budgeting.

How often are you meeting with Issa or Melina, or the music supervisor, Kier Lehman ? And then I’ll go back and start dropping music in. I love the show, and I forget that I’m actually working. There’s a lot of energy, lots of different personalities on the show. My process is listening to Issa and what the crew wants as far as needle drops and matching the personalities of the Molly character, the Issa character, and the Lawrence character. Just don’t ask him to tell you the title - it changes once a month.Ĭan you talk me through composing music for Insecure? He might currently be busy scoring movies and TV, but he’s still finding time to work on his sixth album. On Insecure, he leans into the laid-back, sunbaked vibes of Los Angeles, while Step’s stars reminded him of his own musical upbringing in Oakland. Saadiq currently composes music for Issa Rae’s Insecure, and worked on the score for Step, a documentary about a girls’ step team in Baltimore. If you’re missing new music from Raphael Saadiq, it’s because he’s busy scoring your favorite show.

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