Marvel's Luke Cage, a Netflix show about the bulletproof superhero, features a ton of scenes in a Harlem night club. Cheo Hodari Coker , the showrunner ​, had the idea to put real R&B and Hip-Hop artists on the show, including Method Man, Jidenna, and Sharon & The Dap Kings for Season 1.

" There were a lot of questions," said Coker, who had to pull a lot of favors from his previous career as a music journalist, to get musicians on the show. "No other Marvel show had featured [live] music," he told ​Billboard.





Now, for Season 2, people are vying for a spot, as Coker explained, " When you say, ‘We're going to shoot you like no one else has shot you on a show,' and you can show long tracking shots of Raphael Saadiq or you can show the intercut footage of Sharon Jones, they were like, ‘We have to do the show.'"

Season 2 of Luke Cage is set to feature music and appearances from Faith Evans, Joi & D-Nice, Gary Clark Jr., Esperanza Spalding, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Jadakiss, KRS-One, and Rakim.





"The people I would see out in the store who were not the typical Faith Evans fans would say, ‘Hey! I saw you on Luke Cage!'" Evans told Billboard. " It was funny the different people who connected to me being on the show."

After Jidenna's performance of "Long Live the King," video streams for the single rose 2,134%.





Season 2 of Luke Cage plans to include a lot of music by Pete Rock and CL Smooth, as " Pete is a huge Luke Cage fan."





" He's a comic book collector," said Coker. "He put out a mixtape that used snippets of the show, so it was a way of saying, ‘You love us, we love you too.'"