niggas on the moon Tracklist
NOtM is a voracious and endlessly enigmatic journey into gloom and obscurity. The album boasts some of the group’s strangest production and most uninterpretable lyrics. It’s also the only full-length studio album the group did not accompany with music videos.
Singer/songwriter Björk collaborated on the project, lending vocals which are sampled and used extensively throughout. The day after its release, she expressed excitement and appreciation in regards to her inclusion.
The album’s title could be a reference to Gil Scott-Heron’s jazz poem “Whitey On the Moon.” Released in 1970, just a year after the Apollo 11 manned moon landing, the poem critiques the American government’s lopsided treatment of white people and black people by juxtaposing black Americans' real-world financial struggles with white Americans' tax-funded space exploration missions.
Though NOtM is the first disc of the double album The Powers That B, it was released on June 8, 2014, almost a full year before the second disc, Jenny Death.
