On a sunny Rio de Janeiro afternoon, in one of the city’s hillside Favela communities, Ricô Santana, Rafa Dias and Boima Tucker sat trading Youtube clips of grime MCs in the UK, footwork dancers in Chicago and trap producers in Atlanta, building a friendship that would develop naturally into a creative collaboration. From the vantage point of that hillside, consuming the output of various international black music scenes, the group realized that they shared a desire to use music to celebrate Africa’s contribution to world culture. So they embarked on a journey to create an album, with lyrics in French, English and Portuguese, and with references to a diversity of black rhythmic genres in order to help bridge the gaps that normally separate people of African descent around the world.