Mr. Cab Driver

‎[1989]‎
Album “Let Love Rule”‎

Da un episodio di ordinario razzismo di cui fu vittima il cantante alla fine degli anni 80…‎



‎"Mr. Cab Driver" was written with a sense of humor. When I wrote it, I had a sense of humor ‎about the whole thing. But, the whole thing stems from a day of trying to get to the studio to record. ‎I was recording out at Hoboken, New Jersey at the time and I was standing at the corner of West ‎Broadway and Broome, trying to get a cab, and I was late for the studio, and I had a lot of work to ‎do, and I was passed by about twenty cabs. Then, finally, a cab stopped for me. I got in, and told ‎him where I was going, and he kicked me out of the cab. And by the end of the whole thing, we ‎were fighting on top of the cab, and you know, he was calling me nigger. And it got really out of ‎hand. It was horrible. So, I went back to my loft, because I couldn't get to the studio. I was pissed ‎off at that point. I had just been in a fight the middle of the street on top of a yellow cab, and I wrote ‎‎"Mr. Cab Driver" and went in the next day and cut it. And you know, the whole thing is about ‎racism and what not, but it is written with a sense of humor.”
‎(da un’ntervista a Lenny Kravitz riportata su Lenny-‎Kravitz.com)‎