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As Big Chief Shaka Zulu explained, when drum machine, lyric, rhythm, and movement lock in, dancers enter trance.

The brilliance of Ryan Coogler's Sinners Surreal Montage is it doesn't treat Black music as a straight line, but rather as a circle.

The Surreal Montage sequence in "Sinners" doesn’t move like a history lesson; it moves the way memory does, vivid, out of order, alive.

The history of Black music is unfortunately filled with exploitative contracts, unpaid royalties, and stolen music sold as “covers.”

Music isn't background noise. For so many of us, it's the thread woven through every significant moment of our lives.