Daveed Diggs has finally sung on The Boys, and the show used the moment to make a blunt point about Homelander’s grip on his followers. Season 5, episode 7, titled "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk," features Diggs as Oh Father in a musical number urging believers to "raise him up."
That was enough to make composer Christopher Lennertz text Eric Kripke after hearing Diggs had joined the cast. Kripke’s reply was simple: "give me a beat." Lennertz later said the idea felt inevitable. "If he's on the show and we don't have him sing, we all deserve what we get. It's a travesty," he said.
Diggs was cast in The Boys on Sept. 24, 2024, and the final season began production on Nov. 25, 2024. A few episodes into filming, Kripke approached him about the musical-number idea. Diggs said he usually turns down requests to do musical numbers and other performance flourishes, but he was struck by how the show handled music and by the way Kripke pitched it.
"I was very appreciative of how he approached because certainly people have asked me to do musical numbers and other things, and I generally refuse. But they do music so well on this show," Diggs said. He added that he came in trusting the writers and spent a day thinking before agreeing. "I entered with the mindset, I really trust what these writers are doing, and I want to be along for the ride. I want to do all the crazy things they want to do. So when they did approach me with it, I took a day to think about it, to make sure that it felt good to myself. And I was like, ‘Yeah, let's do this. This is gonna be super fun.’ And I was right."
The song itself landed on Lennertz a few months before episode 7 went into production, and he said he immediately understood the point. "Once I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, my god, he's gonna announce Homelander is god. It just couldn't be more perfect," he said. Diggs described the performance in the plainest terms possible: "It's all about hearts and minds."
The number fits a series that has used music before to sharpen its satire. The Boys previously staged Kimiko and Frenchie’s old Hollywood dance number, used "I Got Rhythm" in season 3 and followed with "Let's Put The Christ Back In Christmas" in season 4. Diggs also brought a built-in musical pedigree to the role, having originated Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton.
What makes the scene land now is where it sits: in the penultimate episode of the season, when The Boys is no longer teasing its themes but pressing them into the open. The show is using a musical performance not to soften its politics, but to show how a cult of personality can turn devotion into doctrine. By the time Oh Father tells the faithful to raise Homelander up, the series has made its answer plain: the point is not entertainment, it is conversion.
