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Bilal: New Album Tracks, North American Tour
June 26, 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.
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.
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.
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I love that pic....
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And I'm SO happy that the Sa-Ra cats produced some of the album
Love what they did for Love For Sale | |
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Finally! Damn. You can call me "ROC" for short | |
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Maybe Love For Sale will get a proper release when Bilal's new one performs well, like when Q-Tip dropped The Renaissance, then we saw the previously-shelved/bootlegged Kamaal The Abstract on CD. | |
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yeah 4real! Shafiq and bilal make that magic 2gether | |
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his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001 "Fast Lane" hit me so hard back then! | |
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It wasn't a proper release though, they haven't released the full shelved album | |
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Well, in Tip's case there was at least two full shelved and bootlegged albums. Isn't that the full one from 2002-ish? | |
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Yep, thats the one.
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Well, I don't think the second one from Tip will see a release. Anyway, let's just hope the best for Bilal's project. | |
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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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i saw this fella open for erykah badu a few months ago and he was awful! like amateur night.
just sayin'.
it was really bad. i felt bad for myself having to sit through it. | |
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Guess he was having an off night. I'm assuming you have taste since you went to see Badu 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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"All For Love" is a signature song.
I am so glad to see this talent come back on the scene, finally. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder | |
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Track listiing & production credits:
1. "Cake & Eat It Too" – Produced by Bilal Oliver & Steve Mckie
In stores September 14th. | |
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Bring it on. | |
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Thank you for this!!! "Pedro offers you his protection." | |
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I saw him live about 2 years ago and he was great. With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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Track by Track, Bilal's Aritight RevengePosted on 07/08/2010
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You owe it to yourself to preview the songs on his homepage. I haven't been this excited for a new CD since Janelle Monae's The ArchAndroid. | |
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Looking forward to the album. Come September, hurry! Can't wait for this summer to be over (I hate summer ) "Little One"
Ode to Bilal's two young sons, one who has sickle cell and the other who has autism. The one traditionally soul song on the album, poised with a sentimental bass and lonely guitar riffs. A very watery-eyed ballad. Sorry to hear that... | |
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I'm digging the snippets. Thanks 4 the link. | |
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I'm SO excited for this! I don't even have all the tracks from Love For Sale so it will be nice to have a proper release for him If you will, so will I | |
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"All For Love" is a signature song.
I am so glad to see this talent come back on the scene, finally. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder | |
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Love this guy. I like the shelved CD better than his debut. Can't wait for the release party at BB Kings here in NYC.... a MUST. Prince esta muerto...
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Bilal's Got A Brand New Bag August 2010
Even before the release of his official debut 1st Born Second in 2001, the buzz surrounding Bilal was deafening. His collaborations on Common’s Like Water for Chocolate are still classic. And despite his then-label Interscope shelving his second album, Love For Sale, it somehow leaked to the delight of his many fans.
Known especially for his live performances, Bilal is a favorite among Atlantans and, when Erykah Badu hits Chastain on August 14, Bilal will be right along with her.
Even better, his new album, Airtight’s Revenge, drops September 14. In this exclusive interview, Bilal talks about Atlanta weather and why now is a good time for indie-minded artists like himself to make music.
Where have you been?
I know you’ve been out there performing but now you seem to be making an effort to get out there in a more grand way?
That sounds like you thought it was an inside job.
Since that cleansing, did it kind of change the direction of your music?
I’ve come into music in a more freer place now. It feels a little more free-flowing now, I would say.
So you’re going to come to Atlanta. You’re performing with Erykah Badu. Have you consistently been on the road with her?
What makes coming to Atlanta special? I think that you were supposed to perform here in February and you didn’t make it? [Note: Writer confusion. Foreign Exchange didn’t make it. Also, a few years back when the NBA All-Star game was here, Bilal was supposed to come but the weather grounded the plane and he couldn’t make it.]
I hate that I missed you. I wonder where I was.
Does that touch you, given that so many other artists, I know this is not you saying this, but in my opinion, are lesser talents than you are, have so much of the pr/marketing machine working in their favor and, though you haven’t had consistent play on radio, to be able to perform and have so many people come out , does that really, like, amaze you?
Do you think earlier in your career you were more willing to conform then?
I’ve always been this way. Just when I was on Interscope, their major thing was a single but I don’t make music for singles. Even now they just kind of say, "Well, we’re going to make this the single." When I had gotten to a place when I felt that that was happening to me like "this isn’t a single yet," it created friction because I don’t know how to make songs like that.
Are you encouraged by coming out at this time because the pendulum seems to be swinging back to where people are a little bit more appreciative of artists who are trying to be artists and not these corporate conglomerate ideas of what music is?
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