Emancipate

Blaque Roots

Episode Summary

Blaque Roots’ is a movement that infuses rebel elements to create a sound that speaks to the essence of Black life and how we orient to this world. Mutual fans and inspired by each other’s artistry, Mic Blaque and Nakeeba Amaniyea (Roots) seamlessly merged energies to create a soulful and passionate album that intimately narrates our experiences from the point of seduction to the plot of social justice. The natural synergy and creative collision of these two individually accomplished artists has produce a diasporic album with range widely suited for Posh Parties and Power-to-Blaque Roots’ is a movement that infuses rebel elements to create a sound that speaks to the essence of Black life and how we orient to this world. Mutual fans and inspired by each other’s artistry, Mic Blaque and Nakeeba Amaniyea (Roots) seamlessly merged energies to create a soulful and passionate album that intimately narrates our experiences from the point of seduction to the plot of social justice. The natural synergy and creative collision of these two individually accomplished artists has produce a diasporic album with range widely suited for Posh Parties and Power-the-People Protests

Episode Notes

The group name, ‘Blaque Roots’, signifies the music marriage between the Warrior, Visionary, Engineer Mic Blaque and

the Revolutionary, Temptress, and Educator Nakeeba Amaniyea (Roots) as they come together on a parallel journey of

Black Freedom rooted in the power of the past and forging with fortitude forward on a path to transfer knowledge and

wealth to generations to come. ‘Blaque Roots’ as a distinction has a variety of other significances as well; varying from a

high degree of intricacy such as the duo’s unified mission to stimulate the ascension of the mindset of our people to the

simple bond of their shared Jamaican roots.

‘Blaque Roots’ music is a culture collective of sounds and genres infused with Black love, joy, and triumph. These

elements are all acts of rebellion within the war for freedom we’ve unceasingly waged over time and the explosion we

are in the midst of currently, which makes it timely, relevant, futuristic and nostalgic. In the spirit of Sankofa, ‘Blaque

Roots’ is reaching back for the strength, ingenuity, and innovation of the past to write the soundtrack that projects us

into our abundant future.