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Executive Privilege

from Music From The Mint Hotel by Hakim Jamal

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Mid-tempo, woozy, eclectic and jazzy, this song features the vocal of Sula Mae and a flute/recorder solo.

During the 1972 Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon attempted to invoke ‘Executive Privilege’ as his reason for withholding secret tapes he had made of private conversations in the Oval Office - conversations which would have implicated him in a web of corruption and lies. He was eventually pardoned and allowed to live a long and untroubled life outside of politics without criminal charges. But he was never the same man. In this song, he’s past-it, depressed and friendless, living on a California beach, and his woman has had enough of him. His ‘executive privilege’ has run out.

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from Music From The Mint Hotel, released March 31, 2023

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Hakim Jamal Manchester, UK

The music created by Paul Ashley Wheatcroft is inspired by 70s artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. English musician Paul signed for Big Life/Polygram and is published by Universal Music.His new incarnation is a collective called The Mint 400. ... more

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