Black America Again All Amerikkkan Badass

This might be the most consistent and engaged anthology for Joey bada$$, even though he's always been committed to his community.

1) A Freedom Talk For Woke People: GOOD Morning time AMERIKKA

At present, what's freedom to yous? Let'south talk about information technology, have a infinitesimal, think it through I'1000 all about it, but the concept seems new

[…]

The get-go runway, polish entrance to wake up with, has a audio made to be heard at the frontier betwixt dream and reality.

The lyrics set a fine line betwixt the daydreaming person and the Woke i,

Betwixt the one walking in an illusion of freedom, ignorant or forgetful about his story

And the one full enlightened of the misery and sadness of the condition.

I came from

A dream That the black human dreamed… long ago

I'm actually a present sent to you By your ancestors

While the start song questions the idea Liberty, this final quote announces the answer Joey Bada$$ will observe in his main rail Land Of The Costless where he states « [he's] just a blackness spade spawned out the nebula. »

Past this outro Joey Bada$$ not simply quotes Sunday Ra (from:Infinite Is the Place, 1974), but he likewise refers to the concept of Afrofuturism,aimed to critique the nowadays-day dilemmas of black people, and to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the by.

A concept that is non new to the likes of Erykah Badu or Janelle Monae ( Archandroid, Electrical Lady ) who've explored the topics of modern slavery, liberty and African roots, combining music, ideas about cosmos and fantasy.

2) Black SUPER HERO MUSIC: FOR MY PEOPLE

This for my people, tryna stay alive and simply stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world and then lethal
Who volition take a stand and be our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay live and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world then lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?

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Expect up in the heaven, it's a bird, it'southward a plane
No, it's the young black god livin' out his dreams
What you mean? I been upwards on an ultralight axle
They don't wanna see you fly, they just gonna shoot your wings

3) WORRIED Near THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: TEMPTATION

I come here today to talk nearly how I feel
And I experience like that we are treated differently than other people
And I don't similar how nosotros're treated
Just because of our color doesn't mean anything to me

Since the kickoff, Joey Bada$$ has always been dedicated for the children.

The opening track of his debut album B4.DA.$$, Salvage The Children , is the proof of that.

At present he's sampling the vocalisation of this picayune kid, sad nigh the current events in The Usa (#BlackLivesMatter)

His young historic period and his spotlight puts him in a position to sympathize what the people of his historic period might feel most racism and continual discrimination to ascension as a role model and stand as a voice for the youth and employ words with wisdom.

Hustle on the block, who gon' save the children?
Man it's all a plot and I'one thousand simply revealin'
The media only tryna make a villain
I just accept the pain and a paint a picture
Voices in my head, I hear the whispers
When I experience this way, inhale the swisher
Or I sip the liquor, ah

On another note, this song is a shot to Joey's spirituality and views on religion.

In his vocal Waves that we've analysed in the past, he raps « So we pray to the Gods, the Jahs, and the Allahs, t o keep united states of america safe and watch our lives« .

This hyperbolic statement was his way to point out drastic people left with no options but prayers.

If you wanna make change, information technology's gon' take delivery
Some people enslaved by they religion
Can't emancipate them from the mental prisons

Temptation is really a song made out of desperation about the same issues that have been going on for décades: racism and discrimination, lack of opportunities and lack of rubber and protection.

Praying is all we might have, but actions are yet to exist considered, without falling in the temptation to act reckless.

4) OPEN Letter of the alphabet: THE LAND OF Free

The Land Of Free ironically stands for The U.s., which is really a state for corruption,

A land where we all the same call White Privilege out, and we even so betoken out the inequality of chances and prospects,

A land inhabited by generations carrying the name of  their ancestors, or rather the proper noun of their slave owners.

For the ones still picturing the American Dream, Joey Badass comes again to wake everybody upward from their dream to reality (cf Practiced Morning Amerikkka ).

While paying tribute to Biggie'south Juice instrumental vibe with the drums in the rails, Joey reminds that  these days the taste is no more for the American Dream.

What is more, past rapping:

I gauge some things will never change

Locked in the bike, tryna break the chains

Handcuffs and then tight, nearly slit my veins

This what tough love feels like, feel my pain, uh

Joey refers to 2Pac'south iconic track Changes , concerned well-nigh racism and massive incarceration.

His vocal also echoes with Mutual'sBlack America Again and the championship Letter For The Free , which likewise deals with massive incarceration and slavery (cf 13th Subpoena).

That style, the immature MC points once again the injustice in the Judiciary System, and the fact that law targets sometimes systematically Black people as the thugs to arrest.

From Biggie Smalls, to 2Pac, to Common, Joey Bada$$ has been humble and giving tributes to the icons that he respects.

In his song Y U Don't Dear Me (Miss Amerikkka), he gives another tribute to another icon, for the new generation this fourth dimension, Kendrick Lamar.

Indeed, you lot can hear the drum pattern in the vocal, similar to the one in Alright, a track that became a true protest anthem.

Besides Alright, the style Joey incorporâtes a woman in this piece echoes with the way Kendrick incorporated a adult female every bit an allegory for America in For Free? (Interlude) –  analysed previously.

In this song, the lady is looking down and Under-appreciating the black boy, talking to him like trash – «walking around like you're God's gift to earth; nigga yous own't shit ».

Tell me why you don't love me
Why you always misjudge me?
Why you always put so many things in a higher place me?
Why you atomic number 82 me to believe that I'yard ugly?
Why you lot never trust me?
Why you treat me like I don't matter?
Why you e'er kicking my ladder?

5) AN ALBUM BIGGER THAN HIMSELF: (ALL) AMERIKKKAN IDOL

The closing rail of this one of a kind album past Joey Bada$$ leaves a unproblematic message on behalf of the Black Youth Joey Bada$$ want to represent while sampling guitar chords sounding similar with Wiz Khalifa's Young, Wild & Gratis : let the kids live in peace and free!

Quite like Vic Mensa would say in his poem politically charged vocal Shades Of Blue:

Everybody tryna be American Idols

My X-Cistron is I'g the only ane with The Vocalization

It's bigger than us, these kids listen to the states

This is what motivates Joey to make an album similar ALL AMERIKKKA BADA$$.

This album is set to empower the helpless.

For a young Blackness male child (22 years old) with a Vocalism, remaining mute about it is giving reason to the oppression.

This anthology is a piece of a rapper rising every bit a young activist:

Sorry white Amerikkka, just I'k almost to black out

Got a bulletin for the globe and I won't back out

So turn the child raps loud, I'm about to spazz out

However it all ends with a night vision of the the situation, realistic yes, yet pessimistic at the aforementioned fourth dimension.

Possibly willingly provocative to suggest the argue about solutions for more justice and better protection and the worth of Black people's rights which are supposed to be as whatever Citizen.

Finally, Joey begins his album with a question (What's Freedom to you?) and ends it with another question… his album is a whole politically charged conversation, a real debate.

The code words to killin' a black human being by police is, "He's got a gun"

Damned if he practice, damned if he don't, damned if he runs

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Justice won't be served by a hashtag, and that'south the very reason I ask that

What are we to do? We're scattered around

With no clue of this ugly truth

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