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Raphael Saadiq Had a Spiritual Experience Working on Sinners
“I’m like, ‘Damn. This is how I grew up.’”
In his 2006 short-story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone,Amiri Baraka details the Afrofuturist concept of “rhythm travel,” in which a man can journey within refrains of music to legacies past, present, and future. In a particularly arresting moment, that lineage is made explicit as Miles Caton’s Sammie performs the powerfully haunting “I Lied to You,” which traces the ancestral roots of the genre back to Africa, before flashing forward to its many descendants. The veteran singer-songwriter’s storied career has always centered a vast array of Black music, which made collaborating on an original song celebrating the blues and everything in between an organic next step.
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