Опубликовано: 12 апр. 2018 г.Aloe Blacc performs Wake Me Up at the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
A Southern California native born to Panamanian parents, Blacc was raised on boundary-pushing hip-hop acts like Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, and De La Soul, and developed a fierce admiration for such soul musicians as Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and folk-rock singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. “I got interested in folk and soul because of the songwriting,” he says. “Especially with folk, I was really drawn to the way those artists turned their songs into storytelling.”
Carefully crafting lyrics to create impactful music has been essential to Blacc since high school, when he first broke into the indie hip-hop scene. Back then Blacc and his partner DJ Exile formed a duo named Emanon and quickly became cult favorites in Los Angeles, largely due to their heavy inventiveness in working with jazz samples and breakbeat loops. Going solo in 2003, Blacc soon signed to indie label Stones Throw and transformed from rapper to singer—albeit without shedding his hip-hop spirit or sense of social consciousness. Three years after the release of his solo debut Shine Through, Blacc began work on the record that would change his life and career:
Good Things, an album certified gold in the UK, France, Germany, and Australia, among other countries. “Wake Me Up” having sold more than 2.8 million copies in the U.S., Blacc notes that one of his main ambitions is to use his surging popularity to affect social change while continuing to infuse his music with a mindful positivity. “What it comes down to in my songwriting is trying to tell the story of the underdog and all the obstacles they have to overcome in this life,” says Blacc of the songs that make up Lift Your Spirit and his overall body of work. “The stories in my songs are about the common individual and all the struggles they’re dealing with everyday, and also all the hopes and aspirations that they have. It’s about reflecting all of that, and at the same time getting people to sing along and feel good."
About the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship:
The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale
Опубликовано: 10 янв. 2014 г.The official lyrics video for «The Man» by Aloe Blacc.
Buy Aloe Blacc's «Lift Your Spirit»: http://smarturl.it/LiftYourSpiritAB
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Yes I am (x3)
I'm the man (x3)
I believe every lie that I ever told
Paid for every heart that I ever stole
Played my cards and I didn't fold
Well it ain't that hard when you got soul
(This is my world)
Somewhere I heard that life is a test
I've been through the worst, but I still give my best
God made my mold different from the rest
Then he broke that mold so I know I'm blessed
(This is my world)
Stand up now and face the sun
Won't hide my tail or turn and run
It's time to do what must be done
And be a king when kingdom comes
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Yes I am (x3)
I'm the man (x3)
I got all the answers to your questions
I'll be the teacher you can be the lesson
I'll be the preacher be the confession
I'll be the quick relief to all your stressing
It's a thin line between love and hate
Is you really real or is you really fake?
I'm a soldier standing on my feet
No surrender and I won't retreat
(This is my world)
Stand up now and face the sun
Won't hide my tail or turn and run
It's time to do what must be done
And be a king when kingdom comes
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Yes I am (x3)
I'm the man (x3)
I'm the man
Go ahead and tell everybody
What I'm saying y'all
I'm the man
Go ahead and tell everybody
What I'm saying y'all
CHORUS
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Well, you can tell everybody
Yeah you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Yes I am (x3)
I'm the man (x3)
Song Credits: The Man
Produced by DJ Khalil
Co-Produced by Aloe Blacc for Grand Scheme Productions
Co-Produced by Alex Finkin
Live Drums by: Rahki
Piano by: Sam Barsh
Strings by: Danny Keyz
Horn Arrangement by: Dontae Winslow
Trumpet & Flugelhorn by: Dontae Winslow
Tenor & Baritone Saxophone by: Leon Silva
Trombone by: Stan Wilkerson
Additional Production by: Alex Finkin
Choir by: Chin Injeti, Mashica Winslow, Dontae Winslow, Benedict Marshall, Levon Kendall, Justine Redila, Tanye Aganaba, Natasha Pheko and The Boom Booms.
Published by: Aloe Blacc Publishing, Inc./ASCAP; Universal — Songs of PolyGram Int., Inc./BMI; Universal — Songs of PolyGram Int., Inc./BMI
Written by E. Dawkins III
Written by Elton John
Written by Bernie Taupin
Sample Credits:
«The Man» contains an interpolation from «Your Song» written by E. John & B. Taupin. Published by Universal — Songs of PolyGram Int., Inc.
(P) 2013 Aloe Blacc Recording, Inc., under exclusive license to XIX Recordings LLC/Interscope Records
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