Kehlani

Kehlani The artist Kehlani is becoming one of my favorite artists in the R&B industry. She just recently published her first album titled “You should be here” which is exceptionally good. “You should be here” was Kehlani’s first album on her own. Although she recently just signed a record deal to also create her own label, her first album remained number one on itunes for over a week which is actually really impressive thing for an artist just first entering the music business. Although she’s been on tour with famous artists like G-Easy, this Oakland seems to be focused on more than just creating music, on social media she tweets constantly about her goals of changing females in the music industry and how people view them as people and their art. One of her main themes in her music is self-reliance and confidence. Her first album tells the story of all the situations in her life where she’s loved and she’s lost. Each song tells a different story. Starting out with the intro of her producer talking to her a while songs like “ The Letter” talk about her struggles with the fact that her mom was never truly involved in her life which has always hurt her. My favorite song on the entire album is called Alive. The song Alive goes into detail about how you can invest so much time into multiple people and be hurt so many times but it will never effect you until you learn to invest time in yourself. The best part is when it says “It’s like something has to die, to make you realize,” saying that bad things have to happen in life for you to realize that there are also really good things happening in life that need to be appreciated as well. In the song she goes on talking about how thankfully she lost a few people in her life on her way in the industry and also in life in general because it has completely made her stronger and I completely respect that. The best part that separates Kehlani from most female artist is her intellectual lyrics and her consistency on staying true to herself no matter what label she signs to or what happens to her along the way she still plans to stay the tom boy she started out as who just rapped and sang about her real life situations. She’s really a great artist. (407)