{"id":41643,"date":"2018-10-16T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41643"},"modified":"2018-10-16T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:55:03","slug":"jamila-woods-returns-with-her-directorial-debut-new-song-giovanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41643","title":{"rendered":"Jamila Woods Returns With Her Directorial Debut &#038; New Song, &#8220;Giovanni.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6utkqG-v9gM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Following her incomparable debut <em>HEAVN<\/em>, Jamila Woods returns with her directorial debut and new single, &#8220;Giovanni.&#8221; &#8220;Giovanni&#8221; is named for the poet, writer, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, and is inspired by her poem &#8220;Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Moving between music video and documentary, the film balances Woods&#8217;s music and imagination with an elemental, front-and-center glimpse of the prism of Black women that inspire Woods. In fact, the first voice in this video is not Jamila&#8217;s but her grandmother&#8217;s, asserting plainly, &#8220;If you really want something done and done well, do it yourself.&#8221;  Monologues from performance artist Po&#8217; Chop, teaching artist and scholar Dominique James, former Chicago Youth Poet Laureate E&#8217;mon Lauren, hair artist Mo G, yoga instructor, and youth programming director Kesha Daniels-Rush (Woods&#8217; cousin) and author\/healer Philippa Norman (Woods&#8217;s mother) reinforce that truth.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Giovanni&#8217; is a song about owning &#038; celebrating all the parts of myself. It&#8217;s about legacy and lineage, and how the love &#038; strength of the people who made me makes me feel invincible.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Jamila Woods <\/p>\n<p>Watch the video for &#8220;Giovanni&#8221; above. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her incomparable debut HEAVN, Jamila Woods returns with her directorial debut and new single, &#8220;Giovanni.&#8221; &#8220;Giovanni&#8221; is named for the poet, writer, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, and is inspired by her poem &#8220;Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why).&#8221; Moving between music video and documentary, the film balances Woods&#8217;s music and imagination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,25],"tags":[9661,1534,4846,4887,9662,9660,2065,7668,3256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41646,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41643\/revisions\/41646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}