JAMILA WOODS

The singer and poet steps into the spotlight with her debut album, Heavn.

BRITT JULIOUS

DOWNLOAD THESE ★ BLK GIRL SOLDIER A power anthem for millennial black women ★ HEAVN A slow-building silky R&B homage to romance To check out some of Woods’s poetry, go to poetryfoundation.org. Even if you don’t recognize her name, you probably know Jamila Woods’s lilting voice. She has handled the hooks for a string of infectious hip-hop hits: Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment’s “Sunday Candy,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “White Privilege II,” and, most recently, Chance the Rapper’s “Blessings.” This month, Woods breaks out on her own with Heavn, a lyric-driven, minimalist album that showcases a depth seldom seen in contemporary young artists. “My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry,” says Woods. “So even though most of the things that I’ve done have been on other people’s projects or could be pigeonholed in certain…

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Chicago (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2016

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