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Axel F’ theme song: Listen!

Axel F’ theme song: Listen!

Lil Nas X is ready to take over the summer with an electrifying new single!

The rapper has released the theme song for the upcoming Netflix film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F on Friday, June 28th, with the title “HERE WE GO!”

The song is a tribute to the year 1984 Beverly Hills Cop The film is enhanced by a sample of the original title song “Axel F,” written and sung by Harold Faltermeyer, and also features one of Lil Nas X’s catchy melodies.

Poster “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F”.

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Throughout the song, 25-year-old Lil Nas X recites confidence-building lyrics such as “Move tell them make place / tell them make a way / tell them make a hole / Tell them boys they better hide / tell them lay low / tell them play it safe cause we don’t play at all.”

Lil Nas X previously called the track one of the “best” songs he has ever written.

“I’m so excited to release the best song ever this Friday! I’m also sorry for being so scared of my art lately. I’m coming back to myself. I’m going to make you very proud,” he wrote in a Post on Xformerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, June 25th.

In an interview with Netflix, he expressed similar sentiments, saying that working on the track was “actually kind of crazy” and made him “a little emotional.”

“I’m happy to do this. I hope I don’t get slaughtered by the people who love the original,” he added, sitting with some of the film’s stars, including Eddie Murphy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

“HERE WE GO!” – single image.

The upcoming film, which will be available to stream on Netflix starting Wednesday, July 3, follows Detective Axel Foley (Murphy) “back on patrol in Beverly Hills.”

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“After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Gordon-Levitt) and their old friends Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to take matters into their own hands and uncover a conspiracy,” a synopsis continues.

The original Beverly Hills Cop was released in cinemas in 1984. Beverly Hills Cop 2: The Wonderful World of Madness followed in 1987 and Beverly Hills Cop III was opened in 1994.