“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.” A 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.
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