Words by Eddie STATS Houghton

As I mentioned/tweeted/trumpeted the other day I got the opportunity to chop it up with rockstar Lenny Kravitz recently about a range of topics on the occasion of his new album Black & White America, which drops tomorrow. Although the conversation was limited by Lenny’s superman schedule–taping for the new film Hunger Games while, touring and supporting the new LP–we manage to cover a range of topics from Obama’s speech on race to his own creative process. But I couldn’t let him hang up the phone without picking his brain a little bit on his Caribbean roots–which found their way onto B&WA in the form of the song “Boongie Drop,” easily the freshest-sounding track on a very retro album. You can get the rest of the interview at our channel partners Okayplayer but read on for a brief snippet covering the inspiration for that song, his studio in the Bahamas, and his personal connection to the islands.