Black Music (album)
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| Studio album by Chocolate Genius | ||||
| Released | July 14, 1998 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Label | V2 | |||
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| People | (positive) |
Black Music is the first album by Chocolate Genius. It was released on V2 Records on July 14, 1998.
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.
Just prior to recording the album, Chocolate Genius had finished reading The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell.
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.
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