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The pulse of today's black consciousness will reveal and communicate multiple sides of arguments and emotions, all voicing toward the same goal. And the Chicago duo, Angry Blackmen, are taking a page from Public Enemy's Bring The Noise, keeping it "too black, too strong," on their latest song, RIOT!.
Angry Blackmen's Soulcraft-produced Riot! opens with horrid-sounding chords that convey this bleek, Americana feeling. The uprising of a convulsing bass, spanking kicks and chain percussion disrupt the status quo as this fearful Blue Suede sample pierces the track, snapping any docile inaction existing in the song. The production hits at a boiling point where getting burned is inevitable. Angry Blackmen bottle that rage and use it to throw a trash can through Sal's window, so to speak.
Quentin Branch and Brian Warren's irascible verses juggle a fierce and prideful cadence between them. Their lyrics run through a day of rage and their flow bounces the words off the wall, steaming the enclosed space and only making them angrier. The duo's whispered hook has a grim interpolation of Drowning Pool's Bodies, and in the manor they flip it you cannot help but think of the mistreated black bodies at the hands of officers. A justifiable means for the riot to continue if there ever was one.
Riot! taps the center of our frustration and manifests how we wish we could. Angry Blackmen are making their voices an important one in this climate. And it is high time the masses heard it.
Listen to Riot! below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
The pulse of today's black consciousness will reveal and communicate multiple sides of arguments and emotions, all voicing toward the same goal. And the Chicago duo, Angry Blackmen, are taking a page from Public Enemy's Bring The Noise, keeping it "too black, too strong," on their latest song, RIOT!.
Angry Blackmen's Soulcraft-produced Riot! opens with horrid-sounding chords that convey this bleek, Americana feeling. The uprising of a convulsing bass, spanking kicks and chain percussion disrupt the status quo as this fearful Blue Suede sample pierces the track, snapping any docile inaction existing in the song. The production hits at a boiling point where getting burned is inevitable. Angry Blackmen bottle that rage and use it to throw a trash can through Sal's window, so to speak.
Quentin Branch and Brian Warren's irascible verses juggle a fierce and prideful cadence between them. Their lyrics run through a day of rage and their flow bounces the words off the wall, steaming the enclosed space and only making them angrier. The duo's whispered hook has a grim interpolation of Drowning Pool's Bodies, and in the manor they flip it you cannot help but think of the mistreated black bodies at the hands of officers. A justifiable means for the riot to continue if there ever was one.
Riot! taps the center of our frustration and manifests how we wish we could. Angry Blackmen are making their voices an important one in this climate. And it is high time the masses heard it.
Listen to Riot! below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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