Alabama native Laverne Cox has released her first music single, "Beat for the Gods." The dance tune is available today on iTunes, and has an accompanying video that can be seen in full via Out magazine.

Cox, an actress and LGBTQ advocate, announced the song's debut on social media.

It's here. My debut single #BeatForTheGods. Check out the first minute of the video here and click on the link for the full video and an interview about my inspiration for the song: https://t.co/TpiOInppbD pic.twitter.com/MA6Cz07CnP — Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) February 23, 2018

In an interview with Hilton Dresden of Out, Cox described "Beat for the Gods" as "a cute song for the kids to vogue to."

"It really is an homage to that community, the kids who vogue, the kids who drag, the nightclub scene," Cox said. "Specifically the '90s ... It's really about queer club culture, drag culture, all the colloquialisms that are in it. All that lingo and language that I just love. It's an homage to that."

Cox squashed any notion that she's trying to become a pop star, saying the song and video are simply another creative outlet for her.

"Acting is my passion. It's always my priority," she said. "But I'm also an artist, and I loved the process of writing a song, recording it, arranging it, and then shooting a video, and producing it, coming up with the concept with the director, hiring a choreographer and dancers ... it's fun to create something in a different way. As an actress I'm always doing other people's projects, but this was me from start to finish. Hopefully I'll be producing more scripted content as an actress and producer. It was fun to be in the driver's seat creatively."

Cox, who was born in Mobile, attended high school in Birmingham at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She made her acting breakthrough on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," playing Sophia Burset, a former firefighter and transgender inmate.

Cox earned a 2014 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for that role, and has appeared in ABC's "Doubt," Fox's "The Mindy Project," a 2016 TV remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and more. She's also the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

Cox returns to television as the host of "Glam Masters," a reality series on Lifetime. The show's format is similar to "Project Runway" and lists Kim Kardashian West as an executive producer. Here's how Lifetime describes the concept:

"The eight-episode series puts beauty influencers through themed challenges allowing them to put their best face forward to impress Cox, celebrity makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, YouTube makeup expert Kandee Johnson and and Marie Claire senior fashion editor Zanna Roberts Rassi."

"Glam Masters" debuts on Feb. 28 at 9 p.m. CT.