The track, with its grating chords and vulgar lyrics, is jarring to the ... track Tesfaye has performed partly in Amharic, it isn’t the first song to feature heavy notes of his Ethiopian background.

As Ethiopia underwent a series of dramatic ... While this particular version has no lyrics, the homesickness described in the song refers to a lost lover and to a lost time and, for an emigrant ...

Both artists put a strong emphasis on black pride with lyrics like “haters will stand in line to the tanning salon to get this color” (in the song ... and Christian Amharic speakers as ...