{"id":41547,"date":"2019-08-21T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/juju-rogers-releases-music-video-for-babylon-a-song-of-strength-and-progress\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:22:06","slug":"juju-rogers-releases-music-video-for-babylon-a-song-of-strength-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/juju-rogers-releases-music-video-for-babylon-a-song-of-strength-and-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"JuJu Rogers releases music video for &#8216;Babylon&#8217;, a song of strength and progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28063 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1-759x516.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1-1010x687.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1-661x449.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1-465x316.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/juju-rogers-1-1-375x255.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Through his\u00a0new single \u201cBabylon\u201d, German-American singer-songwriter JuJu Rogers announces his new album,\u00a0<em>40 Acres N Sum Mula.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Produced by Farhot (the producer behind Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cSing About Me\u201d) \u201cBabylon\u201d is a song that\u00a0shifts into a myriad of musical styles from reggae melodies, nu-soul\u00a0and rap\u00a0over an organic beat. It&#8217;s a track driven by stark honesty, as he explains;\u00a0\u201cthe song represents the outlook and possible perspective, the break away moment of the album. It&#8217;s a song of strength and progress. It also creates a very positive vibration as the last song of the album which made a lot of sense to me as the whole album holds a more mystical vibe to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNMBM1lD-_c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new album\u00a0unifies the mind state of an Afro-German with the power of observation with German political landscape of Berlin. 40 Acres refers to Special Field Orders No.\u00a015, a promise made by the United States government for agrarian reform to aid formerly enslaved black farmers. Approved by President Abraham Lincoln, the field orders were written 1865, and specifically allotted each family a plot of land no larger than 40 acres (16\u00a0ha) plus a mule for the agrarian reform effort. I changed &#8220;a mule&#8221; into &#8220;sum Mula&#8221; in order to place the legitimate struggle for equal rights and reparations into the context of our current capitalist world and underline the historic connection to the very beginning of today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>40 Acres N Sum Mula, <\/em>release\u00a0on September 27 via Jakarta Records. You can pre-order the album <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/jujurogers.lnk.to\/40AcresNSumMula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/santi-kida-kudz-raw-dinner\/\">Santi and Kida Kudz share spooky film for \u2018Raw Dinner\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28061\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JuJu-Rogers-40-Acres-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through his\u00a0new single \u201cBabylon\u201d, German-American singer-songwriter JuJu Rogers announces his new album,\u00a040 Acres N Sum Mula. Produced by Farhot (the producer behind Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cSing About Me\u201d) \u201cBabylon\u201d is a song that\u00a0shifts into a myriad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":28063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[5543,5658],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}