Chicago band Sidewalk Chalk will release their fourth full length album “An Orchid Is Born” on June 2nd via Ropeadope Records. The album was produced by Grammy Award-Winning Robert “Sput” Searight and the album speaks to mankind’s need to cheer in the darkest of moments and to choose love over inhumanity in all things.

Blending Hip Hop, Jazz and Soul the album is split into three movements – The Hope, The Loss and The Birth. In these three movements, the album encapsulates the latest chapter of the band’s growth as a cohesive unit – a period somehow beautified by a series of deep wounds that might have derailed a less focused collective.

Today check out the song “A Suite for Black Lives” which is an eerie Black Lives Matters inspired tune which tackles the complexity of historic and present day struggles of Black and marginalized people.

Rico Sisney, the MC/rapper of the group states:

“For people of color in this country, achieving self-acceptance is far more difficult because we’re taught to hate ourselves by the media, the education system, and politicians. This song is about struggling with internal demons and then turning on the external ones. I could write a damn dissertation on this but I’ll leave it at that.”

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