Lenny’s Black and White America
Super Delicious, but some of you refer to him as Lenny Kravitz, was spotted leaving his Tribeca hotel in New York City today. Damn, I want to sit-n-spin on his face. It should be illegal for a half-Negro to be this damn fine.
Lenny’s new album, Black and White America, features cameos from Drake and Jay-Z, and in an interview with Billboard, Kravitz described the Jay-Z-featuring track, Boongie Drop, as having a reggae vibe, while the song with Drake, Sunflower, is described as “smooth”.
Lenny tells Billboard:
“I only go where the music takes me, so if I hear it in the track, I’ll do it. I won’t do something for the sake of, ‘Well, this is hip now.’ When I wrote ‘Boongie Drop’ I heard a rap in the middle, and I immediately heard Jay’s voice and we had collaborated twice before, so I called him and when I went to New York I put him on the track. And then I got on the phone with Drake for ['Sunflower'] before he had even heard the track and he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it. I’m a fan and I love your work and I would love to be on it.’ So that was cool.”
CNN recently spoke to Kravitz about the hidden inspirations on the album:
CNN: “Black and White America” is a really optimistic song. Can you talk a bit about the inspiration behind it?
Kravitz: Thematically, the inspiration came from a documentary I was watching about these people somewhere in Middle America who were very much against what America had turned into. They were very unhappy that there was an African-American president and they were going to do anything and everything to stop this. They were full of hatred and it sort of shocked me a bit.
Obviously, I know that racism is out there but the fact that people had such rage and they were so backwards, it really blew my mind. That inspired the chorus of the song by me saying, “this may be what you think, but this is where we’re going.” And then it involved my parents’ story with a verse because black and white America is really who I am, how I grew up and what’s going on, so it ended up being the title track. CONTINUE READING
Black and White America hits stores August 30th.
In related news, Lenny will play the role of Cinna in the highly-anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games.
