Fantastic Negrito has announced White Jesus Black Problems, a new album and film out June 3 via his label Storefront Records. The album was written and recorded in his hometown of Oakland. Watch the video for the new song “Highest Bidder,” as well as the film’s trailer, below.
The album’s announcement explains that the work is “based on the true story of Negrito’s seventh generation white Scottish grandmother (Grandma Gallamore), an indentured servant, living in a common law marriage with his seventh generation African American enslaved grandfather (Grandfather Courage); in open defiance of the racist, separatist, laws of 1750s colonial Virginia.” It’s the follow-up to the Grammy-winning 2020 album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
“That song’s as true today as it’s ever been,” Fantastic Negrito said of the new single in a statement. “The Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Americans, everything goes to the highest bidder. It’s human nature. People always want to have the best…. It’s all predicated on extracting the most out of other people for the least. In this country, we worship billionaires while parts of some cities look like what we’d call the third world. I’m trying to convey what I see when I walk down the street here in Oakland.”
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White Jesus Black Problems:
01 Venomous Dogma
02 Highest Bidder
03 Mayor of Wasteland
04 They Go Low
05 Nibbadip
06 Oh Betty
07 You Don’t Belong Here
08 Man With No Name
09 You Better Have a Gun
10 Trudoo
11 In My Head
12 Register of Free Negroes
13 Virginia Soil
