Johnson, Syl: Is It Because I'm Black (50th Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl LP)

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Coming hot on the heels of his first full length, the self-proclaimed most sampled artist of all time released the groundbreaking black concept LP Is It Because I'm Black a full 13 months before Marvin Gaye asked What's Going On? Rumbling hard past any notion of a sophomore jinx, Syl delivered a bracing, inspiring, and politically charged R&B document. The 'lost' voice that cut the deepest, burned the hardest, and kept the best pace with the hall-of-famers. -Jonathan Lethem It Is Because I'm Black, Come Together, Together Forever, Concrete Reservation, Black Balloons, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, I'm Talkin' 'Bout Freedom, Right on