![]() ![]() Jidenna is a Nigerian-born, Ivy League–educated schoolteacher by trade who, as he once told Spin, got into rap by force of intellectual curiosity. If you listened close, there was a verse about what to do about police brutality. Tyler’s rager explained Odd Future’s teenage riot in a single blast of disdain for self and others, but Jidenna’s single pulled off a more nuanced feat, sneaking revolutionary rhetoric into the margins of what seemed to be an innocuous pop jam while presenting a vision of black pride and self-sufficiency in its visual component. ![]() ![]() You’d have to go back as far as Tyler, the Creator’s “Yonkers” to find a song that maps out the artist’s aesthetic so cleanly for a casual listening audience on a first pass. “Classic Man” was something else: lead single as political Trojan horse, music video as ideological calling card.
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