Track listing

1. "Black & White Jingle #1" 2:17 (Imani Coppola)
2. "Springtime" 4:58 (Coppola)
3. "Woke Up White" 2:16 (Coppola, Josh Valleau)
4. "Raindrops from the Sun (Hey Hey Hey)" 3:33 (Coppola, Valleau)
5. "30th Birthday" (feat. J. Martin Coppola & Pete Miser) 4:24 (I. Coppola, Valleau, Pete Miser
   Pete Miser
   Peter Ho is an Asian American Hip Hop rapper and producer living in New York City who performs under the name Pete Miser.- Biography :Originally from Portland, Oregon, Pete Miser is involved in the hip-hop scene in the Northwest United States...
   
   , J. Martin Coppola)
6. "Let It Kill You" 3:39 (Coppola, Valleau)
7. "Dirty Pictures" 3:36 (Coppola, Valleau)
8. "Keys 2 Your Ass" (feat. Rahzel) 3:46 (Coppola, Valleau)
9. "Black & White Jingle #2" 1:26 (Coppola)
10. "I Love Your Hair" 4:05 (Coppola)
11. "J.L.I.a.T.o.Y.O." 3:36 (Coppola, Valleau)
12. "I'm a Pocket" 2:24 (Coppola, Valleau)
13. "This is My Chicken" 0:12 (Coppola)
14. "In a Room" 2:17 (Coppola, Valleau)

Personnel

• Imani Coppola: Main Vocal, Acoustic
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
   & Bass Guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  s, Violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , Keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  s, Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  s, Synthesized Bass, DX-7, Acoustic, Fender Rhodes & Wurlitzer
  Wurlitzer
  The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
  
   Electric Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  s, Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , Percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , Drum Programming
• Josh Valleau: Announcer, Synthesized Voices, Electric
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   & Bass Guitars, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Hammond & B-3 Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  s, Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming, Turntables
• Pete Miser
  Pete Miser
  Peter Ho is an Asian American Hip Hop rapper and producer living in New York City who performs under the name Pete Miser.- Biography :Originally from Portland, Oregon, Pete Miser is involved in the hip-hop scene in the Northwest United States...
  
  : Vocals in track 05.
• J. Martin Coppola: Vocals in track 05.
• "Amanda": Vocals
• Michael Burns: Bass
• Rahzel
  Rahzel
  Rahzel M. Brown, also known as simply Rahzel, is an American musician and virtuoso beatboxer, formerly a member of The Roots.Nicknamed the "Godfather of Noyze," Rahzel is known for an ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing, as evidenced in his performances of "Iron Man" and his...
  
  : Beat Boxing in track 08.
• John Altieri: Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   & Tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  
• Alex Elena: Drums, Percussion

Editorial Reviews

Ms. Coppola dazzlingly walks the walk she talks through the entire album, which adds up to an arresting work of breathless pop immediacy.-Brett McCabe

This lovable Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 misfit made a splash in '97 with her quirk-hop hit "Legend of a Cowgirl," in which she promised to "spend all my money on absolutely nothing" over a sample of Donovan

Donovan Leitch

Donovan Leitch may refer to:* Donovan , British musician* Donovan Leitch , son of the above, British-American actor & musician...

's "Sunshine Superman." On 'Black & White', she sings about springtime in NYC

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 and the horror of a 30th birthday while fitting between ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

, rap, electro-pop and punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

. B+ -Mikael Wood

Imani Coppola is a lot of fun. This is the NYC lady's eighth album, and it eschews much of her sample

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

-heavy traditional hip-hop for a kitchen sink approach, chucking every genre possible into the mix with highly entertaining results. It's all shot through with plenty of attitude, like early Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry

Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...

 or Kelis

Kelis

Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

, no small amount of humour, and bags of welcome sass.-Doug Johnstone

Drawing upon every genre under the sun, NYC based Coppola presents a daringly cohesive vision of 21st Century pop- flitting effortlessly between gleaming chart fare and gnarled hip-hop. 'The Black & White Album'is well worth indulging.

Imani Coppola "Woke Up White". In 1997, Coppola was a college kid who rapped, sang and rocked a violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

on MTV. Now she hangs with Mike Patton and screams hilariously f**ked punk songs like this.