NEW MUSIC | SA-ROC RELEASES SIX NEW SONGS & “WILD SEEDS” MUSIC VIDEO WITH DELUXE EDITION OF BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM THE SHARECROPPER’S DAUGHTER

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Today, Sa-Roc releases The Sharecropper’s Daugh­ter Deluxe, adding six new tracks to her acclaimed Rhymesay­ers Enter­tain­ment debut, The Share­crop­per­’s Daugh­ter, released in Octo­ber of 2020. Avail­able now digit­ally and avail­able as a vinyl bonus disc due out in August 2021, these new songs fur­ther show­case Sa-Roc’s sharp skills as a lyr­i­cist, and her gift for cap­tiv­at­ing melod­ies and enga­ging con­tent. The Sharecropper’s Daugh­ter Deluxe fea­tures pro­duc­tion from Sol Mes­si­ah and Evid­ence, as well as a pre­vi­ously unre­leased guest verse from MF DOOM on “The Rebirth.”

Along­side the release is a stun­ning music video for the deluxe edition’s lead single, “Wild Seeds.” Dir­ec­ted by Aliza Brug­ger, the video fol­lows the lyr­ic­al themes of “Wild Seeds,” whose verses are a test­a­ment to the beauty, mys­ti­cism, and wis­dom of the eld­ers and ancest­ors who’ve guided and bolstered gen­er­a­tions of Black women through history’s assault and neg­lect. With a title inspired by the sci-fi nov­el Wild Seed by vis­ion­ary author Octavia But­ler, the song serves as a cel­eb­ra­tion of women such as Queen Nanny, Har­riet Tub­man, Sojourn­er Truth and many oth­ers, whose legacies inform future gen­er­a­tions of their propensity to bloom under the harshest of conditions.

“Just like wild seeds, we remain unfettered and unbroken, adding beauty and immeas­ur­able value to a world that chooses not to acknow­ledge us,” Sa-Roc states, “but our very exist­ence is the only acknow­ledge­ment we require.”

The six new tracks from The Sharecropper’s Daugh­ter Deluxe will also be avail­able on a spe­cial vinyl LP. Avail­able for pre-order now and set for release in August 2021, The Share­crop­per­’s Daugh­ter: Bonus Vinyl will be pressed on trans­lu­cent white, black & gold insom­nia effect vinyl and housed in a gold foil lam­in­ated jack­et with a prin­ted record sleeve.

Through­out the songs of The Share­crop­per­’s Daugh­ter Deluxe, Sa-Roc main­tains a con­cise blend of thought pro­vok­ing com­ment­ary and razor sharp lyr­i­cism. On the open­ing track, “Options”, she deliv­ers a raw and sear­ing testi­mony of the ded­ic­ated yet, all too often, under­ap­pre­ci­ated artist, remind­ing us to give our flowers to the liv­ing while we’re still able. “The Great Escape” exam­ines humankind’s tend­ency to try to mask the unsa­vory ele­ments of our past that we’re either unwill­ing or unable to con­front head on. Echo­ing both sen­ti­ment­al­ity and sor­row, “Recon­struc­tion of the Heart” recalls some of Roc’s child­hood memor­ies and muses on the many ways in which our earli­est exper­i­ences can scar, shape, and strengthen the very core of who we’ll become.

The Share­crop­per­’s Daugh­ter Deluxe chapter fit­tingly comes to a close with “The Rebirth”, which remarks on the plight of the vul­ner­able artist and the quest for bal­ance between cre­at­ive trans­par­ency and over­ex­pos­ure. Here, Sa-Roc labors through her dis­com­fort and com­mits to being bru­tally hon­est about the exper­i­ences that have informed her expres­sion and made her a bet­ter artist. Fea­tured guest, the late MF DOOM con­tin­ues this line of think­ing, offer­ing his own unique obser­va­tions, “Quick as a quit­ter will fold, some of what glit­ters is gold. Same story is old, get­ting left in the blis­ter­ing cold. Broken souls get remold with little arbit­ra­tion. For­tune favors the bold as does incarceration.“

This newly added con­tent pulls no punches in show­cas­ing Sa-Roc’s con­tinu­al growth as an artist who, as NPR recently put it, “is a mod­ern day gri­ot whose aura radi­ates calm in a world of chaos.”

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Rishma Dhaliwal

Edit­or / PR Con­sult­ant at No Bounds
Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voice­less. Cur­rently work­ing in TV, Rishma brings her PR and media know­ledge to I am Hip Hop and oth­er pro­jects by No Bounds.

About Rishma Dhaliwal

Rishma Dhaliwal has extensive experience studying and working in the music and media industry. Having written a thesis on how Hip Hop acts as a social movement, she has spent years researching and connecting with artists who use the art form as a tool for bringing a voice to the voiceless. Currently working in TV, Rishma brings her PR and media knowledge to I am Hip Hop and other projects by No Bounds.