Fantastic Negrito has shared a new single, They Go Low.
The electro-soul track serves as the fourth preview of the three-time Grammy Award-winner's forthcoming visual album, 'White Jesus Black Problems', due out on June 3.
Following Trudoo, it arrives with a video directed by Aerick Neal of Shoot Something Productions. Fantastic Negrito said of the new outing:
"When the one percent are making their deals, we’re not at the table. We’re on the menu, so to speak. Especially when I was making the film, I wanted to be sure that I was telling the story of those oppressors, those high bidders. They go low. Low enough to sell your grandmother, low enough to enslave people, low enough to keep poor whites out of work. When people worship money, there’s no limit to how low they’ll go."
The follow-up to 2020's 'Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?' will be accompanied by a companion film, written, recorded and filmed in Oakland.
A press release states the project focuses on, "the true story of Negrito’s seventh generation white Scottish grandmother (Grandma Gallamore), an indentured servant, living in a common law marriage with his seventh generation African American enslaved grandfather (Grandfather Courage); in open defiance of the racist, separatist, laws of 1750s colonial Virginia."
Earlier in 2022, the California-based songwriter and musician announced a string of shows, including Bottlerock Festival, Electric Forest, and the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Fest. He'll also perform at London's Jazz Cafe in July.
'White Jesus Black Problems' tracklist:
1. Venomous Dogma
2. Highest Bidder
3. Mayor of Wasteland
4. They Go Low
5. Nibbadip
6. Oh Betty
7. You Don’t Belong Here
8. Man With No Name
9. You Better Have A Gun
10. Trudoo
11. In My Head
12. Register of Free Negroes
13. Virginia Soil
Fantastic Negrito Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue July 26 2022 - LONDON Jazz Cafe
Wed July 27 2022 - LONDON Jazz Cafe
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