Ten years after the discharge of his seminal, GRAMMY-winning Black Radio, Robert Glasper has introduced Black Radio III. The album is out February 25 by the use of Loma Vista Recordings.
Arriving along the announcement is a brand new unmarried, “Black Superhero,” that includes Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Child, and Giant Okay.R.I.T. The respectable song video first premiered the day gone by by the use of broadcast channels BET Soul, BET Jams, MTVu, MTV Reside, and Yo! MTV. Shot in Los Angeles and directed through award-winning director/filmmaker, Charlie Buhler, the video takes audience via a sequence of vignettes that spotlight real-life Black heroes who reside in and paintings for his or her communities.
On growing the song video, Buhler says, “‘Black Superhero’ is a visible love letter to the Black group. It’s an ode to our energy, vibrancy, and pleasure. We have now struggled, and but we’re nonetheless right here, and no longer simplest are we right here, however we’re so a lot more than the adversity heaped upon us. I’m thankful to Robert and the group at Loma Vista for trusting me with this sort of tough and essential music, and everybody who got here in combination to assist deliver the concept that to lifestyles. It used to be a real exertions of affection.”
Like its predecessors, the brand new studio album celebrates Black pleasure, love, and resilience and lines Grammy-winning unmarried “Higher Than I Imagined” that includes H.E.R + Meshell Ndgeocello and “Shine” that includes D Smoke and Tiffany Gouché. Black Radio III’s visitors additionally come with Q-Tip, Jennifer Hudson, H.E.R. Yebba, Commonplace, Ty Dolla $ign, Esperanza Spalding, Ant Clemons, India.Arie, and extra.
Glasper mused at the mission, sharing “I couldn’t assume of a higher solution to have fun the ten yr anniversary of Black Radio than through liberating Black Radio 3. To debut a reside efficiency of ‘Black Superhero’ on The This night Display with a few of my very own heroes is actually particular to me. Optimistically, it evokes extra to return.”
Track in reside to The This night Display Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 17 for a different MLK Day efficiency from Robert Glasper, acting “Black Superhero” with Rapsody, BJ The Chicago Child, Amir Sulaiman, and DJ Jazzy Jeff, subsidized through The Roots.
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