Don't touch my soul when it's the rhythm I know. KNOWLES: (Singing) Don't touch my hair when it's the feelings I wear. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR") SHAPIRO: Can we talk about "Don't Touch My Hair"? But I also had a lot of personal healing to do. I mean I wanted to honor my family by creating work that I felt that we could all heal from and have the conversations. SHAPIRO: And so did you find by writing this that there was some kind of - I don't know - catharsis or healing or closure? Or was that even what you were looking for? KNOWLES: (Singing) Walk in your ways so you will wake up and rise. Honestly, when I hear that song, I can feel my roots. And that's why it's first on the album - because it's almost like a meditation to just prepare yourself to go through this journey. When I say fall in ways so you can crumble fall in your ways so you can sleep night fall in your ways so you can wake up and rise, that was really about honoring my lineage, my past. Fall in your ways so you can wake up and rise. Fall in your ways so you can sleep at night.
KNOWLES: (Singing) Fall in your ways so you can crumble. One of the important reasons that I wanted to write the lyrics specifically there is because I wanted to reclaim that space, basically say no one's pushing me out of town.
My grandparents - they fled to Galveston. And it became a little bit of a race war. So there were a lot of people embarrassed by the situation. And my mother's cousins went and saved him. And they basically just kind of left him for dead. And there was a big explosion that happened. KNOWLES: My grandfather was actually a miner.
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And there was a series of really, really awful events to where essentially in the middle of the night they got pushed out of town. KNOWLES: New Iberia is where my maternal grandparents are from. The album includes interviews she did with her parents, and she wrote most of the song lyrics in a small town where her family has roots called New Iberia, La. SHAPIRO: When I spoke with Solange, she told me this is also her most personal work yet. SOLANGE KNOWLES: (Singing) You got the light. The songs on this album celebrate black culture, confront prejudice and explore the trauma of witnessing black people killed. Like her sister Beyonce's recent work, Solange is exploring what it means to be black in America today. It hit number one on the Billboard charts. "A Seat At The Table" is her most political album yet and her most commercially successful. 1 spot to an artist who we spoke with on this program back in November, Solange Knowles. When our friends at NPR Music sat down to list the best albums of 2016, they gave the No.
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