It comes two years after his hit song‚ Classic Man.
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His album‚ The Chief‚ has been released to critical acclaim. The musician added that helping to educate children in Nigeria was something that was close to his heart‚ so that the one day it would help build a stronger nation. I’m all about building up and building pride in who we are.” Now I get parents telling me that their kids are proud to be Nigerian. “I know growing up it was hard to claim your ‘Africanness.’ We were teased alot. The ‘classic man’ added that growing up as African child in America‚ they (African children) were teased a lot‚ but he hoped to instill a sense of pride amongst the youth. I hope people feel mighty as human beings and that my music brings people closer.” “I always wanted to be a historic figure‚ but it has never been my goal to be a star. Jidenna said that growing up he had no intention of being a celebrity and all he wants to do through his music is make a difference. “White Niggas encourages people to really put themselves in other peoples’ shoes‚” he explained. The artist added that he hoped to help bring people together through his music and spoke openly about the inspiration behind the track ‘White Niggas on his album. That’s what mixed people do‚” Jidenna said. One of my jobs is to teach everyone that we’re all human. It’s like my dad said‚ ‘don’t call yourself half black‚ and half white‚’ if anything you’re twice‚ but you’re not half anything. “If people come at me as somebody in between races‚ they are killing themselves. In an interview at a swanky hotel in Joburg the musician spoke candidly about why he felt strongly about addressing the racial divide between people. Jidenna is currently in South Africa to promote the release of his latest album‚ The Chief. The suave singer was born in Nigeria and moved to America when he was a child‚ told TshisaLIVE he feels strongly about upholding his roots as a Nigerian. Eazi.Nigerian-born American singing sensation Theodore Mobisson‚ popularly known as Jidenna‚ hopes to inspire African pride and bring people together through his music. And then there are standouts like “Zodi,” a deliciously sensual marriage of hip-hop, where Kwabena samples Busta Rhymes’ 1997 single “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See,” but adds a fresh twist with the introduction of highlife sounds cleverly melded with the hypnotic sing-rap style of Ghanaian artist Mr. From there, Kwabena and Jidenna build out a soundscape that canters through the West Indies, borrows from Southern rap tropes, winks at East Africa via Malhun, and references Sufi music, while also indulging in the layered poly-rhythms of highlife music, and even jazz. While The Chief sets him up for a more focused sophomore effort, Jidenna’s genre-hopping album is merely a sliver of his versatility as an entertainer. Like distant family coming together for a yearly reunion, the song sees Jidenna employing a tongue-twisting flow to take aim at everything from the dissolution of colonial histories to the numbered days of oyinbo (the Igbo word for white person) interference in melanated affairs. “Worth the Weight,” 85 to Africa’s opening number, features Seun Kuti alongside immaculate production from both Kwabena and DJ Dahi (best known as the producer of Drake’s “Worst Behavior”). What you’re seeing on this album has always been who I am, it was just a process to work up to being able to share it with the world.”Īnd as Kwabena laughingly points out, the album’s tracklist is at times a very literal reflection of their cross-continental footsteps, especially when one considers how the I-85 (which partially inspired the album’s name) connects much of the American South, a place where the first song feels as though it begins. This time around it was really important for me to create from a place that felt genuine. Not all of those compromises felt like me. “I liked The Chief,” he tells EW, “but a lot of that process involved making compromises with the label.
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#JIDENNA THE CHIEF ALBUM REVIEW WHITE NIGGAS FREE#
Its success later affected his work on his 2017 debut record, The Chief. Listen free to Jidenna The Chief (A Bull's Tale, Chief Don't Run and more). While the 2015 success of his Grammy-nominated single “Classic Man” was a blessing, it also quickly became a double-edged sword, in which Jidenna’s sound and persona felt unnecessarily tied to the three-piece suits and Harlem Renaissance-esque hair styles and image he’d built around the single. Still, neither element has ever been set in stone. Identity and creativity have always been at the crux of the singer-songwriter’s artistic practice. Forced to leave the apartment, Jidenna began mulling over how he would make his next project a truly holistic display of his evolution.