NEGRO DELUXE by PINK SIIFU

Deluxe Edition pressed on triple vinyl housed in a wide spine jacket with full color picture sleeves.

Black Vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies.

On this album Siifu trades in soulful rap for punk, fueled by the Black experience in America followed by spiritual jazz and poetry. A beautiful chaotic collage of sounds that reflect the black man’s thoughts on the day-to-day. It doesn’t take long to reach the heart of NEGRO, Pink Siifu’s new album. It’s an aggressive collection of hardcore punk and free jazz, with bold lyrics that encourage shooting back at trigger-happy law enforcement. This album profoundly communicated the anger of an African-American community beset by police violence a month before the murder of George Floyd lit the streets on fire.
In April 2021, he revisited the project with Negro Deluxe, which doubled the length of the original.

Pink Siifu tells Bomb Magazine “after we were done mastering and mixing, Zeroh was like, “Yo, Negro is like fire, and Negro Deluxe is like smoke….So I would characterize Negro Deluxe as, like, after you’re angry, after you’ve punched a wall, after you beat somebody up, whatever, how do I channel that into something else? How do I just let it go? I feel like Negro Deluxe is that, for real, in a nutshell. It’s like the chaos calmed down after all the fire’s gone and the smoke is in the air.” It isn’t anything like ensley, Siifu’s breakthrough 2018 LP. Where that record used mid-tempo soul and hip-hop to score his upbringing, NEGRO is a riotous mix calling for Black revolution. It’s also the most fearless project in his growing discography. Negro harkens back to 1992, to Ice-T’s thrash metal band Body Count,  song “Cop Killer”.  This album is meant to remind us of Rodney King, Racist Cops, The Black Panther Party, and Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A. police officer who, in 2013, went on a violent shooting spree against his former colleagues and their family members due to seeing his own policeman violate the people there supposed to be protecting. “It’s about America, It’s about the trauma that comes from the flag. It’s about understanding that it’s okay to be angry.”

TRACKLIST:

1.
BLACKisGod,A ghetto-sci-fi tribute(_G) 01:38
2.
SMD 01:49
3.
FK 03:05
4.
we need mo colour. 03:07
5.
BLACK! 00:25
6.
Adam x Jalen, eye luv u. 01:24
7.
ameriKKKa, try no pork. 02:00
8.
run pig run. 01:29
9.
DEADMEAT 02:14
10.
myheartHURT. 00:42
11.
Chris Dorner. 01:09
12.
Nation Tyme. 01:49
13.
homicide/genocide/ill die ft Ted Kamal 02:35
14.
bebe's kids, APOLLO ft Moor Mother 01:32
15.
dirt ft Na-Kel Smith 01:09
16.
faceless wings,BLACK! ft The OGM 00:37
17.
blackest LOVE, like paint on tha wall 01:05
18.
steal from the ENEMY 01:08
19.
ON FIRE, PRAY! 03:42
20.
Black Be Tha God, NEGRO.(wisdom.cipher) 04:24
21.
BLACKISINFINITE BLACK ALIVE! spirit shop (understanding) 04:57
22.
NEGRO FRIDAY 01:42
23.
BLACKZ ft Zeroh 04:05
24.
heavy 01:47
25.
blackSPACE ft Melanie Charles 02:14
26.
stratosphere status 01:41
27.
BREATHE.birth 04:56
28.
G tribute live rehearsal /ALL MY NXGGAS GONE PROSPER rehearsal live 04:07
29.
FKOFFME 01:02
30.
2dirt 01:47
31.
cointail 03:27
32.
fkthapolice[slumvillage tribute] 02:25
33.
wakeupnPROSPER 00:56
34.
numbers on yo head ft billy woods 03:33
35.
tha embrace narrated by Akeema Zane 02:20
36.
PRAY rehearsal 07:20
37.
Nation Tyme rehearsal live 05:32
38.
NATION TYME PSA 02:22
39.
wrkouts2Jazzselfdefensealso 01:22
40.
BLACKBETHAGOD!!!!!!!(culture,freedom.cipher), PSA 4 tha FOLKS 02:01