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The OST’s biggest surprise, the Jamie Foxx-produced/Rick Ross-enunciated “100 Black Coffins” is a fun and badass number that helps sell the film’s connection to modern Southern music, but it’s far from my favorite moment on the soundtrack. It’s the track that usually sticks out for audiences, but it doesn’t do a whole lot to move the film towards its mission. The song that does this best, John Legend’s “Who Did That To You,” plays epically over the film’s penultimate scene as Django races on a horse to exact his final revenge on those who killed Schultz and tried to sell him back into slavery. Legend is better known for some pretty vanilla songs that occasionally top the charts, but his incendiary side was used superbly in this track. He demands justice and accountability in a situation where those basic rights are denied over a rousingly cathartic instrumental that commands foot-tapping and anger in equal measure. It’s easily among the best John Legend songs of all time, and the appearance of his songs in awful films like Think Like a Man and About Last Night make this all the more triumphant.
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