Bilal - The Dollar
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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BILAL RETURNS WITH AIRTIGHT'S REVENGE,
"What a frequency ... What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice." -- Erykah Badu
"I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song." -- Q-Tip
"Bilal is hands down one of the greatest specimens of voice in post-modern hip-hop culture." --Questlove
"His voice is like a Van Gogh painting ... A Salvador Dali ... His voice has so many textures to it." -- Janelle Monae
Los Angeles, CA (June 16, 2010) -- Grammy-nominated musical artist Bilal returns with his third studio album, Airtight's Revenge, which will be released September 14 through Plug Research Music and distributed through The Orchard.
A provocative genre-bending album that dissects love, politics and relationships, Airtight's Revenge demonstrates the Philly-bred singer's growth as an artist. "It's a mix of jazz, hip-hop, soul, blues, and experimental free music," says Bilal. The differences in economical social classes inspired the track "Robots," which scrutinizes societal and governmental effects on people. After watching the 2007 documentary, "Zeitgeist: The Movie," Bilal wrote "Who R U." "Of all religions, I drive to be human," says Bilal. At the end of the day, we are all one. We need to connect with the spiritual side of ourselves; we don't need to inflict that on others. It's OK to have free thought. "Little Ones," a smooth track with a soulful sound is dedicated to his sons. "My youngest son has Sickle Cell and my oldest son has Autism. This song is for them," stated Bilal. Steve McKie (Jill Scott, Estelle, Kindred, Vivian Green) co-produced the album with Bilal, recorded in Philadelphia, Virginia and Los Angeles. The album also features production by Nottz (Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Drake), 88 Keys (Mos Def, Macy Gray, Musiq Soulchild), Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra and Tone Whitefield.
A classically trained vocal veteran, Bilal released his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001, which boasted the popular single "Soul Sista." The follow-up, Love for Sale (2006), was shelved but leaked entirely online yet was well received to fans and music critics and has become an underground classic. In the following years, Bilal has collaborated and performed with some of the industry's most prominent artists including, Beyonce (Fighting Temptations), Common (Like Water for Chocolate, Electric Circus, Be, Finding Forever), Jay-Z (American Gangster), Erykah Badu (New Amerykah Part One, New Amerykah Part Two), Robert Glasper (All Matter), Boney James (Better With Time), Musiq (Soulstar) and The Roots among others. He also covered Radiohead's "High & Dry" for the 2006 Radiohead tribute, Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads. Bilal also appears in Dave Chappelle's Block Party.
"I feel like I could do anything" his next album is gona be outa this world. He just keeps changing
Each transformation brings more genius
I would love to see Bilal Unplugged!
The remix of this is BANGING
Love this brother pray the hand of god cover him and keep him in one whole piece
Bilal is really a fucking genius! Like how do you think of a song like this ?
Thanks Plug! Great Song. PEACE!!!
There's no way Kendrick wasn't inspired by this for How Much A Dollar Cost
No it's good thing good things go unnoticed
i feel you im a soul artist on the come up i met bilal along with anthony david and algebra here in atlanta where im from at one of bilals shows which turned into a jam session because it got rained out and turns out there nothing but singers and musicians in the house that night so of course i grabbed my axe and got up on that stage with him and just sang some random cool shit lol i write sing play produce check me out some day female artist on the come up support
Exactly
I’m curious 🤨 Is that Mannie fresh on the beat machine
Bilal always had the best weed
@KrfNYC2 1st Born Second had better composition and flow. I like the messages/concepts of Airtight's revenge a whole lot more though.
Bilal interview excerpt (BNi-ZCwgd08):
"I've become more of a spiritual person.... I'm not a different person when I'm being creative than when I'm just myself. I'm the same person all the time. I'm not one of those kind of people that do that.... I look at everything in a spiritual kind of way... Living in dual worlds..."
No wonder the industry's blackballed him. SMH
cain slew able for the dollar
5 thousand views... (DAMN SHAME!!!)
i feel you im a soul artist on the come up i met bilal along with anthony david and algebra here in atlanta where im from at one of bilals shows which turned into a jam session because it got rained out and turns out there nothing but singers and musicians in the house that night so of course i grabbed my axe and got up on that stage with him and just sang some random cool shit lol i write sing play produce check me out some day female artist on the come up support