We appear to be present process a fruitful interval of collaborative albums in rap, and the newest pairs Detroit beat icon Tall Black Guy with Lansing-via-Seattle emcee Ozay Moore, previously generally known as Othello. Although there’s no launch date but for his or her forthcoming file Of Course of and Development, it is sensible for them to drop their newest single, “Black Is…,” whereas we’re nonetheless in the midst of Black Historical past Month, as its lyrics (from Ozay, in addition to visitor spots from future-soul vocalist DSTL, rapper Sareem Poems, and a spoken-word epilogue from famend DJ Rich Medina) hone in on the wrestle that’s being Black in America.
“Pops ready the lounge for schoolin’,” Ozay raps on the high of his verse after a spoken-word intro from DSTL, “To get me the place I understood what it meant to be human / And sadly in my life I’d need to struggle to show it.” He continues on to recall the place he developed “the instruments for the revolution” earlier than making approach for a killer verse from Poems, involving the affirmation “I really like being Black, ain’t nothing altering that.” The observe closes with an prolonged outro courtesy of Medina: “The outdated narrative about who the Black man is should die.”
Hear the observe beneath (or reserve it here), and anticipate extra from TBG and Ozay quickly.
