Name: Eminencia Parda / Amarelo
Brand: Emicida

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

STERNS2734

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Tour 7"

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-09-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5017742004475

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Total Cap

1 / 7" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Emicida

Genre GB

Latin / South American 

Label GB

Sterns

<p>Sterns Edits was a collaboration between legendary African & Brazilian label and distributor Sterns and London producer and label owner Gomori. The label ceased releasing new music after 2020.</p>

<p>Each *Sterns Edits* saw Gomori rework tracks from the vast Sterns catalogue alongside some of his other favourite artists, melding these various styles of African music with his own house grooves to make for dancefloor ready weapons.</p>

“One of the most respected MCs in Brazil and regarded as one of the biggest revelations of underground hip hop in his country.”

“Eminência Parda” is Portuguese for the French phrase “éminence grise” and in interviews Emicida has asked “Where does the real power come from? Who has reduced us to believe that power and people like us are contradictory?”. The essential narrative of “Eminência Parda” reflects what Emicida has lived and conquered in the last 10 years and the song’s video opens with scenes of a black Brazilian family driving to a restaurant to celebrate the daughter’s university graduaion. As they enter the establishment, the voice you hear is Dona Onete’s, a grand old lady of North Brazil, with words taken from a traditional song that featured on the classic samba album ‘O Canto Dos Escravos’

(Song Of The Slaves) by Clementina de Jesus: “Little kid, little kid, ask where he’s going”.

As the song unfolds to its trap music beats and to the evident distaste, fantasies and fears of other diners, Emicida and the young rappers Jé San ago from Brazil and Papillon from Portugal, explore their themes. The songs exits as it entered, and while the video ends violently, Emicida’s ultimate message is positive: “We are bigger than the nightmares that have been imposed on us. We have overcome them before and we will overcome them now”.

Eminencia Parda / Amarelo

Music GB