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Preview Wed Jul 01 2015
R&B Goddess Kehlani Kicks off Inagural Tour at Lincoln Hall
Kehlani, 20-year-old Oakland R&B up-and-comer, is having a pretty decent year. After the "America's Got Talent" ex-contestant left a sizeable dent in last year's soundscape with her trippy debut Cloud 19, she signed to Atlantic Records, released an even more impeccable R&B mixtape You Should Be Here and is headlining her first tour to celebrate.
Her flow, blotchy vibratos sewn along the beat in a Kanye soul-rap cadence, elevates contemporary alternative R&B with a dynamic and textured swagger. Paired with glossy, '90s-inspired production, her honest, progressive rhymes about maneuvering relationships run circles around the album's rap features--local hip-hop soulsters BJ The Chicago Kid and Chance the Rapper.
Kehlani's You Should Be Here tour, with "dream rapper" Pell, will premiere right here in Chicago on July 7 at a sold-out, all-ages show at Lincoln Hall, 7:30 p.m.