good tune....would work for kicking off a Drexciya set
"Noise rap group clipping. is familiar with the Afroturism thematic. Their last project Splendor & Misery was an “Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the onboard computer that falls in love with him.
Their song “The Deep” – originally made for an episode of Afrofuturism podcast “We Are in the Future” – is this time focused on another Afrofuturist myth, one that Drexciya created and used as a storyline throughout their discography. Drexciya, a duo composed of Gerald Donald and James Stinson – who passed away 13 years ago from heart complications – revealed in the sleeve notes to their 1997 album The Quest that “Drexciya” was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women who were thrown off of slave ships; the babies had adapted to breathe underwater in their mothers’ wombs.
more Hear the rap song inspired by Drexciya's afrofuturist myth
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