The band Onipa, which specializes in merging traditional African musical styles with contemporary electronics, shine a light on the “everyday struggles of hard working people” in their new video for “Promised Land.”
The lyrics offer a blunt indictment of contemporary inequality. “There was a promise of a promised land/Milk and honey, streets of gold, the promise of a dying man,” lead singer Kweku Sackey intones. In reality, that has become “a promise where love for all is indeed love for some, a twisted tale of emotional control, where only...
The lyrics offer a blunt indictment of contemporary inequality. “There was a promise of a promised land/Milk and honey, streets of gold, the promise of a dying man,” lead singer Kweku Sackey intones. In reality, that has become “a promise where love for all is indeed love for some, a twisted tale of emotional control, where only...
- 4/16/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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