{"id":58388,"date":"2020-09-04T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=58388"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:13:55","slug":"teyana-taylor-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/teyana-taylor-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor shares &#8220;Still&#8221;, a highly symbolic new visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teyana Taylor&nbsp;stands against racism and police brutality in the powerful video for &#8220;Still&#8221;.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Spike Tey, the video is an ode to the&nbsp;Black Lives Matter movement and mixes actual footage from the protests around the country, to speeches by Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and video of police brutality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, Teyana Taylor portrays Black civil rights leaders Malcom X and  Huey P. Newton, along recent victims of police killings, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Elijah McClain playing his violin and George Floyd in the footage of his death. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStill\u201d appears on Taylor\u2019s latest LP,\u00a0<em>The Album<\/em>, which arrived on Juneteenth (June 19), a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It features collaborations with  Erykah Badu, Davido, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Future, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Listen to &#8216;Still in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv?si=SUSmkG0qTn6YLgInkpDGgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Spotify  (opens in a new tab)\">Spotify <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/en\/playlist\/1878285902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Deezer.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teyana Taylor stands against racism and police brutality in the powerful video for &#8216;Still&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":58390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[21268],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,10662,21236,9172,21248,8414,8447,8402,21235,8680,13154,8836,12487,21247,21246,8400,9153,8543,9171,21234],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58388"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=58388"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}