and the pressure to follow up Reality Show- a critical blockbuster of an album that debuted at No. The idea of creating Heaux Tales started as Jazmine contemplated the direction for her next proper album. Even if you can’t connect with the songs, you can connect with the words someone is telling you about their life and the conversations and stories we have as women.” “It’s one thing to say these things to your girlfriends in the privacy of y’all’s space but to put it on record and people hear it and, perhaps, judge them? That was a lot to ask, but I have wonderful dynamic friends that trusted me with their stories and I was so grateful for that,” she says. These are tales of lust, insecurities, betrayal, regret, empowerment and the desire for love and security (even if just superficial), presented with the intimacy and honesty we’ve come to expect from the Philadelphia native. The records are steeped in the hard-earned wisdom and unvarnished truths shared between Jazmine and her friends. Heaux Tales takes Jazmine’s knack for masterful storytelling to another level by placing several protagonists at the center. “When you’re going on, living your regular life, time slips away.”Ī conceptual project born out of conversations Jazmine had with her sisterfriends, Heaux Tales is inspired by a sisterhood of women bonded by their desire to stand in their power and take agency over how they see themselves in a world working so hard to define and judge them. “I always take breaks to give myself a breather, but time just got away from me,” she says with a laugh.

Heaux Tales is Jazmine Sullivan’s first release since the critically lauded Reality Show, a six-year hiatus that she’s the first to admit wasn’t entirely planned. And it’s that commitment to giving it to us straight, no chaser, that serves as the foundation of her new project Heaux Tales (RCA Records). Jazmine has spent her career painting vivid worlds of everyday women through poetic records that are unflinchingly raw, vulnerable and poignant. She could be your sister, your girlfriend, your homegirl, or the woman you’ve judged based on the curated life she presents on IG or reality TV. At the center of every Jazmine Sullivan album-from her 2008 debut Fearless to 2015’s Reality Show-is the point of view of a modern Black woman. It’s why we fell in love with her a dozen years ago when she first burst on the scene with fiery records about the push and pull of romance. A Jazmine Sullivan record can go down like a shot of cognac-spicy, yet full-bodied and smooth as butter-or it can swathe you in the warmest embrace like your favorite pashmina.

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