{"id":26453,"date":"2016-09-02T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26453"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:27:19","slug":"watch-sampha-make-his-tv-debut-on-colbert-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-09\/watch-sampha-make-his-tv-debut-on-colbert-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sampha Make His TV Debut on Colbert Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14192671_10154633207512176_5820046641991253332_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our favorite new UK artists, <a href=\"http:\/\/sampha.com\/\"><strong>Sampha<\/strong><\/a>, will soon release his long-awaited solo album entitled <em><strong>Process\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/theyoungturks.co.uk\/\"><strong>Young Turks<\/strong><\/a>). <strong>Sampha&#8217;s<\/strong> been busy this summer, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-06\/watch-samphas-lump-inducing-performance-of-new-track-plastic-100c-off-impending-new-album\/\">revealed at least one stellar song (<em><strong>Plastic 100\u00b0C)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>from the new album (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-06\/check-out-samphas-soulful-and-lovelorn-track-timmys-prayer\/\"><strong>along with <em>Timmy&#8217;s Prayer<\/em><\/strong><\/a>). But last night <strong>Sampha<\/strong>\u00a0took things to a whole new level in his impressive TV debut on the <strong>Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/strong>. Watch below as, backed by a killer band, he sings the sang-froid out of\u00a0<em><strong>Blood On Me<\/strong><\/em>. Those unique vocals! That percussion! And bowed cello for no extra charge. Superb stuff!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bM_I9GZcw9M\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gray hoodie, they cover their heads<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t see their faces<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t see, see, see, see, see<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re near me<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s sweat on my hand<br \/>\nMy heart was thumpin&#8217;, drummin&#8217;<br \/>\nNo need, no need to take from me<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t throw the paint on me<br \/>\nI see this light formin&#8217;<br \/>\nI got lost astray<br \/>\nAnd as far as runnin&#8217; away<br \/>\nI still puff, I&#8217;m on the edge now<br \/>\nThey see me, and not nearly<br \/>\nI nearly lose my grip, but you held on to me<br \/>\nAnd assured me, and tell me that I&#8217;m okay<\/p>\n<p>But I swear they smell the blood on me<br \/>\nI hear them coming for me<br \/>\nI swear they smell the blood on me<br \/>\nI hear them coming for me, for me<\/p>\n<p>I wake up and the sky is blood red<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still heavy breathin&#8217;<br \/>\nFelt so much more than dreamin&#8217;<br \/>\nI get up, they&#8217;re at the edge of my bed<br \/>\nHow did they find me, find me?<br \/>\nThey said there&#8217;s somethin&#8217; bleedin&#8217; in me<br \/>\nSomethin&#8217; screamin&#8217; in me<br \/>\nSomethin&#8217; perfect deep beneath<br \/>\nWhat I need to, need to get away<br \/>\nSo I get it, still it&#8217;s get away<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;d send away, and I&#8217;d send away<br \/>\nBut my gears got stuck<br \/>\nI&#8217;m on this road now<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so alone now, swervin&#8217; out of control now<br \/>\nAnd I crash the whip<br \/>\nAnd your strength runs through me<br \/>\nArms out, you pull me<br \/>\nAnd wipe my wounds clean<\/p>\n<p>I swear they smell the blood on me<br \/>\nI hear them coming for me<br \/>\nI swear they smell the blood on me<br \/>\nI hear them coming for me, for me, yeah&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite new UK artists, Sampha, will soon release his long-awaited solo album entitled Process\u00a0(via Young Turks). Sampha&#8217;s been busy this summer, having revealed at least one stellar song (Plastic 100\u00b0C)\u00a0from the new album (along with Timmy&#8217;s Prayer). But last night Sampha\u00a0took things to a whole new level in his impressive TV debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26465,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions\/26465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}