The cover to The Healing Component features the heart as it beats in the human chest. The organ is exposed, precious, vitalonly ever a beat away from the end of a life. Jenkins album arrives in the backdrop of the shooting death of Terence Crutcher at the hands of police in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not to mention black men and children killed in Ferguson, Cleveland, New York, Minnesota, and Baton Rouge. The rapper might preach love throughoutSpread love, try to combat the sadness, he demands on the title trackbut he sounds like an optimist desperately reaching for the broken shards tearing away from his soul. This might be one of years best blues albums.
Jenkins broadly pitches love as humanitys healing component as taught to him through scripture. Thats what Jesus was down here to show us, he tells an anonymous friend on one of the records segues. Inevitably, a record this much into religion will be stacked next to fellow Chi-Town lyricist Chance the Rappers Coloring Book. But while Chancelors record came with a wave of saintly Christian sentiment, Jenkins engages with faith as a weapon to scorch Americas white patriarchy.
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