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"All Matter" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bilal. The song was produced by the singer, along with Steve McKie, for his 2010 album Airtight's Revenge.[1] It is a rerecording of his collaboration with Robert Glasper, which was included in Glasper's 2009 album Double-Booked.[2] The original version - with Glasper - was nominated for the 52nd Grammy Awards, in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category.[3] HipHopDX journalist Luke Gibson cites it as the best-written song from Airtight's Revenge.[4]

Music and lyrics

Writing for Time Out New York, Mikael Wood describes the music of "All Matter" as "TV on the Radio-style art-funk" and an example of Bilal traversing different styles throughout the album "with the headstrong self-assurance of someone whose commercial aspirations trail his creative ones".[5] While Bilal's falsetto vocals are sung soulfully and in midtempo, they are arranged against beats played in an aggressive and fast manner.[4] David Dacks, in Exclaim!, highlights the song as an example of how "Bilal's reedy, Sly [Stone]-meets-Prince voice runs down metaphysical and personal subjects overtop a continuously changing musical landscape".[6] The lyrics, described by the writer Adrienne Maree Brown as "a meditation on being at peace with every single thing about existence", are sung as follows:[7]

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Consequently, Brown likens the song to a "soul sung version" of "A Hopi Elder Speaks", a piece of writing attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder.[7] The lyric describing love as "cool on the outside, hot in the middle" is interpreted by The A.V. ClubШаблон:'s Nathan Rabin as reflective of the overriding concept in Airtight's Revenge, which Rabin says is "Bilal alternating between a delicate, Prince-like falsetto and an impassioned growl as he contemplates romantic and professional pain".[8]

References

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External links

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