About eight minutes into the film of When I Get Home, there comes an obvious visual riff upon the famous sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when reflections of light stream over the helmeted white face of an astronaut. Found insideJesse Trasmere is a miser with a deep distrust of the bank. Solo’s fourth full-length album dropped Thursday night to rave reviews. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.- personalised ads Solange has released an extended version of her “interdisciplinary performance art film” When I Get Home. THE JONAS BROTHERS: (Singing) About you, about you, about you, about you. MARTIN: Yes, the Jonas Brothers are back together, and that was their surprise new single called "Sucker." Any road you take, you'll know that you'll find me. You say the word, and I'll go anywhere blindly.
THE JONAS BROTHERS: (Singing) I'm a sucker for you. But here's one artist he forgot to mention - the Jonas Brothers. MARTIN: That was NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael. And that's what we hear him talking about in this song, "Forgiven."Ģ CHAINZ: (Rapping) Lease or get murdered in the street. And he starts off the album with this really serious meditation on something else that plagues the hood, and that's death. And the title of the album, "Rap Or Go To The League" - it kind of plays off the old stereotype - right? - about basketball or rap being the only viable options for young black men trying to get out of the hood. I stayed in the Creek, junkies used to preach, in the dope game, trying to reach my peak and go undefeated.ĬARMICHAEL: Yeah, now LeBron James - yes, that LeBron James - he actually helped 2 Chainz with the creative direction of this album. It's titled "Rap Or Go To The League," and it's all about balling in every sense of the word.Ģ CHAINZ: (Rapping) When your dreams turn to nightmares, transactions turn to Nike Airs, went to Greenbriar Mall and bought five pairs. This is the Atlanta trap rapper who dropped his fifth LP. And it really feels like it's a new way for Solange to worship the God within.ĬARMICHAEL: Another album I'm listening to that dropped this week is from 2 Chainz. In a lot of ways, it really feels like she's creating her own cosmology with this album. There's some horseback riding, and there's some really ancient rituals that seem to be being acted out. She's doing everything from twerking in the album. It feels a little Afro-futurist, a little Afro-surreal. SOLANGE: (Singing) Brown zippers, brown face, black skin, black braids, black waves, black days, black baes, black things - these are black-owned things, black faith.ĬARMICHAEL: She also dropped a half-hour film for the album, and it's a real kind of avant-garde piece of performance art. And she's using this to tell her origin story. And even though this Solange album is classified as an r&b album, it's essentially Screw music. And this chopped and screwed style has outlived him by, like, 20 years. And he would chop them up in this real unorthodox stutter style. SOLANGE: (Singing) Pour my drank, drank, sip, sip, sip, sip, sip.ĬARMICHAEL: Now, Screw is a DJ from Houston who created this style in the '90s of slowing down records. And hometown hip-hop legend DJ Screw - he's like the patron saint of this whole thing. RODNEY CARMICHAEL, BYLINE: This new Solange album is a real head trip, and it's called "When I Get Home." You know, it kind of reimagines heaven as a place called Houston, if you can imagine that. SOLANGE: (Singing) Saw things I imagined, I saw things. My colleague Rodney Carmichael stopped by to share some of his thoughts on two new albums.
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