Black Radio (feat. yasiin bey) - Robert Glasper

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Black Radio (feat. yasiin bey) Lyrics

Experiment, black radio

Radio, sucka never play me
Triple shade of black that my bleach should never fade me
They say he crazy
New York raised him in the 80s
Kill the Koch administration
Gangster renovation
Born in isolation-ation
Ill communication-ation


Ma Bell fiber optic
Presidential miscroscopic
Soul sonic remedy
Clinic right in the street
Operating in the dark
Surgery your wounded heart
Come together peel apart
Peel apart come together
Smoking on something good
Praying for something better
From out of better
Never rocking for forever ever
Ever ever ever ever
Forever ever ever ever

It's still a secret even when you tell em dumb dummies
Hush money, rent receipt and drug money
They cold gutter, want gun money
The chief rocker, fuel-injected Zulu horse proper, love boogie

Bey
Bey

Ha! You're rockin
Yes, you are rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the best
You are rockin with the yes
Now, you are rockin with the fresh
You're rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the fresh

It's the
Yes you are rockin with the best
You are rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the yes
Now you are rockin with the best
You're rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the Def
It's the yes

Zulu
Big bird flying down on a mountain pass
Only thing to survive the crash
You wanna fly free go far and fast
Built to last, we made this craft
From Black Radio
Whoa!!

Ha! You're rockin
Yes, you are rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the best
You are rockin with the fresh
Now, you are rockin with the best
You're rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the fresh

It's the
Yes you are rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the def
You are rockin with the best
You are rockin with the fresh
Now you are rockin with the Def
You're rockin with the fresh
You are rockin with the fresh

It's the yes
You're rockin with the best
You are rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the best
You are rockin with the fresh
Now, you are rockin with the best
You're rockin with the Def
You are rockin with the fresh

It's the yes
Yeah

Zulu

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Robert Glasper was raised in Houston, Texas. His mother was his first and strongest musical influence. Mrs. Glasper not only played piano and sang gospel music in the family's church, she led a band that worked the city's jazz and blues club circuit as well. By the age of twelve, young Robert was playing piano in that church. "Gospel music is built on emotion and spirituality; you go to church and leave crying," he smiles. "It definitely just gave me that sensitivity and knowing how to reach people and knowing how to be in tune with your feelings and the emotion of the music. My thing is, it helps me relate to the audience 'cause they're gonna give you what you give them. When you bring the crowd into your world, you can do anything you want."

By the time he reached adolescence, Robert knew his destiny was to be a jazz musician. He was accepted to the Houston's famed High School for the Performing Arts ("Jason Moran went there before me."). Post-graduation, Glasper enrolled at New School University in Manhattan. Soon after arrival, he hooked up with future bandmember Reid and vocalist Bilal, an old schoolmate. As an undergrad, Glasper gigged with Christian McBride, Russell Malone and Kenny Garrett. Professional life after the New School was even sweeter: stints with Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard, Carmen Lundy, and Carly Simon.

The Bilal connection brought the pianist back to hip-hop. Glasper's contributions to Bilal's debut and subsequent tour brought him to the attention of Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest). "Tip would come hang out at my shows, and one day he called me and said, ‘I'm doing this tour and I need you to play keys. Can you do it?’” He's also since played with Mos Def, and is featured prominently on Bilal's forthcoming sophomore release.

In 2003, Glasper's first album Mood was released on indie label Fresh Sound New Talent, and two years later, Blue Note came calling. At Blue Note, Glasper joins a jazz piano legacy that stretches back to 1939, beginning with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, and continuing through Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jacky Terrasson, Jason Moran and Bill Charlap. Undaunted, Glasper reflects, “I’m just happy to be a part of the Blue Note family and its rich history.”

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