L'histoire derrière I Need A Dollar

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00:00 You may know this

00:01 Well, this song saved the life of the singer who wrote it

00:08 We are in the 2010s in the United States

00:10 And what's going on in those years?

00:11 It's the crisis

00:12 The United States is in a recession

00:14 Unemployment is exploding

00:15 Not an incredible period

00:16 At that time, Aloe Black works as a consultant

00:19 In a big American company of financial advice

00:21 Where he earns his living pretty well

00:23 But unfortunately for him, in view of the crisis

00:25 The company in question decides to reduce its employees

00:27 In other words, to fire people, including Black

00:29 He goes from a rather comfortable situation

00:31 To a situation of unemployment

00:33 And says to himself that his only solution

00:34 While waiting to find a job

00:36 Is to try to make some money with music

00:38 He therefore composes an album

00:40 And towards the end of the composition of this album

00:42 He realizes that he has a rather stylish instrumental

00:44 That he wants to use

00:45 But he can't write lyrics on it

00:48 He tried many things on this instrumental without success

00:50 So he ends up taking up an old text

00:52 That he had written

00:53 Which speaks of the situation in America

00:55 The recession, the lack of money

00:56 And the lack of humanity

00:57 These lyrics match perfectly with the instrumental

01:00 The sound gives "I need a dollar"

01:01 And this sound will allow Aloe Black

01:03 To never have to look for a job again