

Tales is littered with such standout moments. And it almost begs the question: Was Sullivan speaking from personal experience? And if so, how does that person hear this record? “ I know that that’s too much to ask/I know I’m a selfish b-/But I want you to know I’ve been working on it,” Sullivan admits, “ I know it don’t matter/I know it don’t help you heal no f-in’ faster.” That type of guilt never truly leaves a person and impacts every relationship thereafter. “Lost One” exposes the vulnerability of love lost that comes from being the root cause for its fracture.

On the flip side, we often hear about heartbreak over the transgressions of a male partner. Paak is impossible to expunge from your head with Sullivan championing that “ money keeps that p-y wet.” It’s a cunning twist in an industry where it’s commonplace for male artists to flaunt their wealth to woo women. On “The Other Side,” Sullivan boldly declares the life she yearns for includes a healthy relationship, kids by a surrogate and spending her man’s money without a care in the world.
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Antoinette, Ari (Lennox), Donna, Rashida, Precious and Amanda each confess to a litany of personal insecurities and dreams: insatiable sexual desires, the love of money and the options it brings for a better life, losing love and being the reason, how to find the beauty in themselves in an Instagram-obsessed world.

Six individual testimonies from Black women serve as the collective muses for Sullivan’s first album since 2015’s Reality Show. And, in the case of Heaux Tales, it’s therapy. It’s an advisory board on everything from career moves to happy hours. On any given day, a group chat takes on a litany of forms: It’s a stand-up comedy show. She once crafted hit records about destroying property because of a jilted lover and having a heart-to-heart with another, saying she was in love with someone else.Īt the time of its release, my assessment was that Heaux Tales is the album version of a group chat. Transparency has always been one of Sullivan’s strengths.

Heaux Tales is not only one of 2021’s standout projects, but it could well be one of the most honest. And let life figure out the rest.” Sullivan did just that. There’s a saying that, if practiced, can lead to a true purpose-driven life. But it damn sure wasn’t doing her any favors, either. The world wasn’t purposely conspiring against the Philadelphia native. Capitol insurrection in Washington, and quite frankly, that’s where much of the discussion in and around America lived in the moment. For one, it dropped 48 hours after the U.S. Jazmine Sullivan’s Heaux Tales could’ve easily been drowned out. The Undefeated asked our writers to pick the most important albums from an insane year.
