The two-time Grammy Award winner known as Fantastic Negrito is back with his new album\u00a0Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?<\/i> In 2016, his album The Last Days Of Oakland<\/i> won best contemporary blues album at the 56th Grammy Awards, and his album Please Don’t Be Dead<\/i> won the same award in 2019.<\/p>\n
The collection of songs contained in Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?<\/i> are a goulash of hip-hop, funk, R&B, soul, blues, and rock music. Negrito\u2019s career has been derailed more than once, and he now leans into even more social awareness than his contemporaries. He tests the racial, personal, and political status quo with his lyrics, and with his musical deconstructions of the late \u201860s and early \u201870s soul albums brought up to speed with the instrumental and digital sequencing forays of his peers. Sometimes it\u2019s a piano, sometimes it\u2019s just pro-tools; it\u2019s all good. <\/p>\n
The track the label is pushing out the door into the marketplace is \u201cI\u2019m So Happy I Cry,\u201d which features guest artist Tank and resembles a mid-tempo gospel announcement interlaced with Tank\u2019s rap. \u201cSearching For A Captain Save A Hoe\u201d recalls \u201cI Am The Walrus\u201d by the Beatles as far back as 1967. Both in mood and tempo, Negrito has obviously spent the time he\u2019s not writing and performing listening to a wide canvas of \u201cpopular\u201d music. He claims to have been inspired by Prince\u2019s Dirty Mind<\/i> album, as evidenced is evidenced by \u201cYour Sex Is Overrated\u201d (featuring guest Masa Kohama), which could have composed by Prince. The 30 seconds long track \u201cJustice In America\u201d announces the sentiment \u201cIn America there is justice, just as long as you have some money.\u201d \u201cPlatypus Dipster\u201d is pure power pop. The opening track is the source of the album\u2019s title \u201cChocolate Samurai\u201d and leans heavily towards James Brown big band sound. If you\u2019ve never heard Negrito, this album will cover all the bases for you as he rounds to fourth for a home run. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s only a matter of time before someone shoots a biopic of Negrito. He was born the eighth of fifteen children in Massachusetts. He moved to Oakland, California where he carried a pistol and dealt drugs as a teenager. He then moved to Los Angeles with a demo on cassette of his songs and was signed to Interscope Records in 1993. After a nearly fatal car crash in 1999, he was in a coma for three weeks. Following his recovery, he waited until 2014 before changing from his previous musical identity from \u2018Xavier\u2019 and became the \u2018Fantastic Negrito\u2019 releasing his eponymous album Fantastic Negrito<\/i> on the Blackball Universe label. His album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?<\/i> hit the Billboard Blues Chart at #1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":34321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10652],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-46156","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fantastic-negrito","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46156"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}