The singer songwriter breaks down his new album, and how the murder of George Floyd in 2020 opened a floodgate for his righteous fury.
‘ by Kendrick Lamar,” they say. “Now, unfortunately, whenever there’s a new [story about police brutality], I play that playlist.”
Perhaps the album’s most commanding song comes in its titular track. On “The King,” Anjimile recounts the Biblical story of Belshazzar, the Babylonian king who sees a vision of a hand writing a message he cannot translate on the wall of his palace. Calling on Daniel to interpret the message, Belshazzar learns that he has been “weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Thanks to the turbulent nature of what they were writing about in 2020, Anjimile points out that they aren’t eager to revisit that headspace. “It was painful,” they say. “It was really cathartic, of course, because I’d never really gone to that place and I felt like I was able to seriously process some emotions that I was having a really hard time facing. But it was definitely hard for me.”
So, Anjimile started the process of choosing out the right songs to include on the project, and the right producer to help make them into a cohesive work. After six days of “producer speed dating” in Los Angeles, Anjimile found Shawn Everett. “Shawn is the man of my dreams, honestly,” he says with a gentle smile.
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