![]() Reflecting on the moment that would ultimately set the stage for his remarkable new album, “85 to Africa,” he says that being unceremoniously booted from his home of three years, “felt like the story of being black in America. As movers dumped his possessions into boxes, the home’s new residents watched from the sidelines and smiled at his misfortune. Unbeknownst to the world-renowned entertainer, the home’s owner had been grievously delinquent on mortgage payments and had lost the house in a foreclosure auction. ![]() ![]() Armed with weapons and warrants, local police officers flooded the eight-bedroom mansion he and his team had been subletting in the suburbs of Atlanta. One fateful morning in the summer of 2017, Jidenna Mobisson found himself on the wrong end of the barrel of a gun.
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