14/blood orange/negro swan
bring hope when you come around.
still smile when you come around.
i feel seen.
am given a reminder that I belong.
with you, i feel this and we reconnect again.
brotha to brotha, man to man.
as we are.
no one wants to be the odd man out at times, so we just be.
you just be.
negro swan, breaking the act.
(“relax your hair. tuck your shirt. put your glasses on...”)
as you are.
here in your field, all the way up.
devonte.
dev.
nappy wonder.
blood orange.
your skin’s a flag that shines for us all.
the charcoal babies,
the niggas feelin’ themselves,
those whose internal resolution is to do too much, because,
“why would you want to do the least?...”
so you don’t.
and you break the act. armed once again with those dreamy, top of the line grooves and that crushed velvet, funk laced down-tempo r&b that is your trademark.
swathed in black excellence, lifting every voice to sing and be seen;
be reminded that you belong.
devonte.
nappy wonder.
negro swan.
KEY TRACKS:
jewelry
charcoal baby
holy will
15/rosalía/el mal querer
16/mountain man/magic ship
17/anderson .paak/oxnard
18/jack white/boarding house reach
19/sons of kemet/your queen is a reptile
20/the carters/everything is love
21/christine and the queens/chris
22/young fathers/cocoa sugar
23/pusha t/daytona
24/kurt vile/bottle it in
25/serpentwithfeet/soil
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