Black Jewel | Tut Elohim ft. Ella Mai
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"Black Jewel" is quintessentially a Tut Elohim supervillainous song, mixing the intelligence of higher self with that of apocalyptic violence. The song beautifully summarizes the historic plight of mankind in general and the black man in particular, from the European invasion and slave voyage of the Chosen People from Africa to America.
Story has it that Tut Elohim sent Ella Mai flowers every week until the Londoner accepted his calls, and that both her manager and then boyfriend were adamant that she not record with the convict, who ultimately convinced her. Yet instead of a full on collaboration, Tut merely had her add hook and adlibs to a prerecorded song already slated for the Hell Fie Hot. Yet because this was in 2017, the year of Ella Mai's breakout hit "Boo'd Up," Tut held the song for a time so as to not complicate the budding starlet's rise. Another version of the story is that he didn't much care for the song but he liked her and wanted her somewhere on the project.
An homage to the power and prestige of the African American, or black Jew, that fashions himself a god in the model of Jesus Christ, "Black Jewel" nonetheless became a hit in Muslim and Christian countries alike, across Africa and Asia and in parts Europe itself.
