.rapsody releases her latest music video titled 'Afeni,' on what would be Afeni Skakur's (Tupac's mother) 73rd birthday.❤️
With"Afeni," which features the velvety and gospel-influenced stylings of PJ Morton, Rapsody flexes her pen to directly address the perpetrators of misogynoir within the Black community. Named after the mother of Tupac Shakur,'s final track samples the rapper's classic 1993 ode to Black women"Keep Ya Head Up." Just like the West coast icon did in the original, Rapsody sends a thoughtful callout to the Black ears listening.
Rapsody:"It's a concept that I've wanted to do for years because 'Keep Ya Head Up' is one of my favorite songs. I remember how much that video and that song meant to me as a young girl. To see somebody in hip hop with such a strong voice like Tupac make a record that was specifically talking to Black women, and to talk to us the way he did...and then for him to talk to the brothers like, 'What are we doing? We have to protect our women more.
also, but records like Tupac's really did something to me. So when I came up with the concept for the album, I hit up my producers and said that I needed this specific piece of the song for the hook.""I knew who Tupac was. Hearing his voice and hearing those lyrics, people might not resonate with me off gate all the time, but when you hear that, you'll resonate with that.
"I'm really involved in everything that I do because I want to be intentional about how my message is sent out to the world. For me, I was intentional about picking a chocolate woman. Not to say that there's no love for our sisters of lighter complexion, but for this story in particular, I wanted to feature a chocolate woman and humanize us.
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