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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week, Grammy-winning artist Lalah Hathaway joins us to discuss her creative process, the legacy of Black music, and her latest album Vantablack, a powerful celebration of Black artistry and identity.
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0:00.0 | Small nonsense. |
0:04.6 | Self help from the hit. |
0:06.0 | Small dozens. |
0:07.2 | We're talking at shit. |
0:08.6 | Small does sex. |
0:09.8 | And he's in a real. |
0:11.2 | Small does sense. |
0:12.4 | With me and in Seals. |
0:14.2 | It's so funky. |
0:16.7 | I am obsessed with black music. |
0:22.3 | And I say obsessed because it is not just music. |
0:29.0 | Like I'm obsessed with the concept of like music that has been made specifically from the vantage point of expression of blackness. |
0:39.4 | Why? |
0:40.5 | Well, because it's revolutionary to do so in a world that has constantly suppressed blackness. |
0:44.9 | And I feel like that is so necessary and powerful. |
0:54.2 | And when Layla Hathaway did her record Vanta Black, and I interviewed her on my radio show, |
1:00.8 | The Amanda Seale Show, she said, you know, the reason I felt like I wanted to do this record |
1:04.5 | was I wanted to do a record that was like very specifically a black record. |
1:07.6 | And I think that we often will look at black artists and just assume that they're |
1:11.2 | quote unquote making black music. And that is true. But there's a whole other level when you are |
1:19.6 | consciously and intentionally making music that you want black people to feel empowered by, |
1:26.0 | to feel strengthened, to feel enriched by. And Layla Hathaway is |
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