In the time since that album’s release, an increasing number of American and British artists began including contemporary popular African sounds into their own-something the Nigerian-American Jidenna is hesitant to take full credit for, but also proud to see unfolding. “Because I think it's important for all black and brown people so you could feel like you're part of the black global culture.” The Wisconsin-born MC spoke with Ebro just ahead of the release of his second full-length project, 85 to Africa, but was referring to the legacy he’d been building since 2017’s The Chief. “One of my goals was to make it cool to be African in America and to make it cool to be American, internationally,” Jidenna tells Apple Music’s Ebro Darden.
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