Re-issue: Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man in a White World

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  You're listening to Song Exploder,

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  where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

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  I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

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  I'm recording this on June 3rd, 2020.

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  This week, with protests against police brutality happening all across the world,

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  there's an urgency,

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  there's a life and death urgency, in fact, in the discourse that's taking place right now.

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  It seems unbelievable in 2020 that something as simple and true as the idea that Black Lives Matter has to be asserted over and over again.

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  But here we are.

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  It still does.

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  I was thinking of letting Song Exploder be silent this week.

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  It's hard to feel like a show about the creative process is necessary in a moment where everyone's attention should be focused on trying to carve justice out of an unjust world.

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  But music can accomplish things that other forms of expression can't,

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  and it can make you feel things with a power that can't be replicated.

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  And that is important.

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  And I thought of this episode from 2017 with Michael Kuanuka and his song Black Man in a White World.

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  I love this song.

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  And there are things that Michael said about it that I really wanted to hear again.

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  Before the episode plays,

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  I want to mention that Michael also put out a new record in 2019 called Kuanuka.

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