Music entrepreneur Adrian L. Miller is the music supervisor of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga’s third season. Wu-Tang Clan founder Rza and American screenwriter Alex Tse created the series which debuted in 2019. The biographical drama which tells the story of the Wu-Tang Clan’s beginnings is in its third and final season on Hulu. Miller picked music to reflect their lives at the time he says, ”I purposely selected the music for each episode, sourcing music that was part of our daily living soundtrack during this era. This music is our legacy – and an additional character in each episode.” 

Alex Tse remarked, “We’ve always felt Adrian was part of the family. It was nice to make that official this season.” Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man says of Miller, “A one since day one.” The Wu-Tang series is not Miller’s first time in the role of music supervisor. He worked on the soundtracks for Friday, Waist Deep, Cut Throat City and Judgement Night. In addition, to being a music supervisor, he is the founder of music management company Xylon Inc. and the co-owner of record labels OBE, Delicious Vinyl Island and A Tiny Universe with Grammy-winning producer Om’ Mas Keith. Over the course of his career, Miller has worked in different roles including A&R for Warner Brothers and Immortal. He discovered Flo Rida, and worked with Outkast, Ice Cube Cypress Hill and House Of Pain. He has recently managed and executive-produced Nx Worries, The Free Nationals and anderson.paak. 

Miller is also concerned with community building and is creating The Adrian M. Miller Conservatory in Frequency & Harmony, a study of Music Entertainment program and scholarship at Livingstone College. He is also on the board of the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx. 

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Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred has been adapted into a drama series for FX. The late science fiction writer’s novel about time travel and antebellum slavery through the eyes of a young Black woman will be presented in eight episodes. The announcement was made Monday at New York Comic Con on a panel featuring executive-producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and cast members Micah Stock, Gayle Rankin, Sheria Irving, David Alexander Kaplan, Austin Smith, Mallori Johnson and Sophina Brown. Johnson plays Dana Brown, a young Black woman in Los Angeles who has relocated with aspirations of becoming a successful writer but must first address secrets from her family’s past. 

Butler became famous in the ’90s with her Parable series and in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. The Parable Of The Talents also won the esteemed Nebula Award. Her stories are recognized for bringing a keen analysis of contemporary society through the eyes of people on the margins with a vision for the future. Butler’s work has continued to be celebrated since her 2006 passing with an asteroid, a moon of planet pluto and scholarships in her name. In 2015, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements an anthology of short stories centered on social justice and inspired by Butler was edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown. 

Kindred will debut on December 13th via Hulu and soon after be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories.