Free 6lack Is Next Level

Atlanta artist 6lack released his debut album Free 6lack last November and this review may be a little late, but worth it. Not since The Weekend came on the scene has there been someone better built to carry the torch of black male singer extraordinaire. Every one of his songs has a feeling that evokes emotion.

He called this project Free 6lack because he felt like he had finally reached a place of freedom, he tells Billboard, “I wanted to make a statement that I’m free from my older relationships and I’m free from all ways of thinking and my old feelings.” That is a tone that he makes evident on many of the songs. 6lack has a way of speaking from an aerial perspective. His words are introspective while at the same time all knowing (relative to his own issues, he is by no means a clairvoyant).

Free 6lack is held down by the song “PRBLMS” which is one of the best songs made in the last year without a doubt (top 25), the words “so I found me a new thang//I’m not as lost as you think//got plenty queens in my hometown//all they need is drank and that dank” bounce around in my head hours after I’ve stopped listening. The rest of the tracks bring the same heat like “Never Know” and “Learn Ya”. Honestly it would do the songs an injustice to separate them because the experience in its entirety comes in just shy of masterful.

This album is strong for a debut. His voice is necessary in the current lexicon, falling in between Drake and The Weekend; like if Anthony Hamilton and Andre 3000 had a love child that grew up with Lenny Kravitz.

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