Black and White America
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| Studio album by Lenny Kravitz | ||||
| Released | August 29, 2011 | |||
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Eleuthera Island, Bahamas between 2009 and 2011 |
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| Length | 66:20 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner/Loud & Proud | |||
| Producer | Lenny Kravitz | |||
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| Singles from Black and White America | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| HitFix | B |
| Paste Magazine | (6.5/10) |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Ultimate Guitar |   |
| Under The Gun Review | 8/10 |
Black and White America is the ninth studio album by American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger Lenny Kravitz, released on August 30, 2011. It is considered Kravitz's long-awaited funk studio album originally intended for release before Baptism's last minute songwriting sessions.
On his official website, Kravitz stated, "I don't know what it's called yet, it felt like Negrophilia, and then... it felt like something else." On December 13, 2010 Kravitz announced that the new album was to be called Black and White America, and it would be his first album on Roadrunner Records/Atlantic Records under joint label Loud & Proud.
Lenny Kravitz traveled to Bahamas on an intent to finishing an album called Negrophilia, but then he "got inspired to write a completely different album." "I was channel-surfing in the Bahamas one night and came across this documentary," he recalled. "I don't remember what it was called, but it had all these people talking about President Obama— how they didn't approve of his being elected and wanted to take their country back, any way they could. I know that there's racism, but to hear people voice it in such a hateful way — I had to write a rebuttal." Kravitz "dreamed up" one song, "Push", while waiting to shoot a scene in the 2009 movie Precious, in which he played a nurse. The album's title track came about while Kravitz was watching another, more disturbing film.
Later, Kravitz stated that even when Black and White America was created during his intentions to make Negrophilia, rumours commenting that the former grown up from the latter were "wrong information on the Internet which I wish would go away.", finally saying that "this has nothing to do with Negrophilia."
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