Released July 14, 1998 Artist Chocolate Genius, Inc. Label V2 Records | Black Music
1998 GodMusic
2001 Release date 14 July 1998 Genre Contemporary R&B | |
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Black Music is the first album by Chocolate Genius. It was released on V2 Records on July 14, 1998.
Contents
- Life chocolate genius black music
- Background and recording
- Critical reception
- Track listing
- Songs
- References
Track 5, "My Mom", is about a return visit to his childhood home and the mother he was losing to senility ("My mom, my sweet mom/She don't remember my name.").
The song "Life" was used in the final episode of season 2 of Breaking Bad.
Background and recording
Just prior to recording the album, Chocolate Genius had finished reading The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell.
Critical reception
Spin called it "a relentlessly somber, wryly confessional avant-folk-funk rebuttal to popular notions of what constituted African-American pop." Many other critics have also highlighted the album's morose and starkly autobiographical sound.
Track listing
- Life
- Half A Man
- Don't Look Down
- Clinic
- My Mom
- Safe And Sound
- A Cheap Excuse
- Hangover Five
- Hangover Nine
- Stupid Again
- It's All Good
- Half A Man (Acoustic Version)
Songs
1Life3:38
2Half a Man3:41
3Don't Look Down3:40
References
Black Music (album) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA