{"id":41316,"date":"2019-10-25T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/kojey-radical-in-retro-mode-for-cashmere-tears\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T19:49:40","slug":"kojey-radical-in-retro-mode-for-cashmere-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kojey-radical-in-retro-mode-for-cashmere-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojey Radical in retro mode for &#8220;Cashmere Tears&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8-F4YXptiZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>A video directed by the artist himself and Charlie di Placido, the same duo behind the stifling (and excellent) &#8220;20\/20&#8221; visuals.<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Cashmere Tears&#8221; is the\u00a0title track to his latest 10-track EP, a funk-inspired extraordinary creative project released last September. The\u00a0video features a vintage party all in\u00a0sequined dress, Kojey Radical&#8217;s dancing with humour and self-derision.<\/p>\n<p>Kojey Radical alias Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah proves to be one of this generation\u2019s most stunning artists in the London\u00a0rap scene. Having studied at the London College of Fashion, he is also a designer and his music, accompanied by a very neat aesthetic, aims to be between &#8220;alternative hip-hop, grime and spoken word&#8221;. His lyrics speak of depression, loneliness, mental health and also refer to Afrocentrism, an important theme for the poet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cashmere Tears<\/em>, released on Asylum Records UK, is Kojey Radical&#8217;s fourth project. You can stream it<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/KR-CashmereTears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31657\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1-759x681.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1-1010x906.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1-661x593.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1-465x417.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kojey-Radical-1-375x337.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video directed by the artist himself and Charlie di Placido, the same duo behind the stifling (and excellent) &#8220;20\/20&#8221; visuals. &#8220;Cashmere Tears&#8221; is the\u00a0title track to his latest 10-track EP, a funk-inspired extraordinary creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":31684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[],"location":[8230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41316"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41316"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}