If you missed it, Blood Orange‘s Negro Swan — released a couple of months ago — is a necessary additional to your music collection. Case in point: the above visual for album standout “Chewing Gum,” which sees Dev Hynes and A$AP Rocky riding bikes in a desert while sporting two of the most illustrious du-rags known to man. Shouts to Project Pat, who’s also featured on the airy single.

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Image credit: Domino Recording Co Ltd

Still vibing to 2016’s Freetown Sound, I was very excited to see that Dev Hynes has a brand new Blood Orange album for the masses to enjoy. Titled Negro Swan, the 16-track project sees additional releases from A$AP Rocky, Puff Daddy, Project Pat, Steve Lacy, Georgia Anne Muldrow and more. He described the album to HYPEBEAST:

“My newest album is an exploration into my own and many types of black depression, an honest look at the corners of black existence, and the ongoing anxieties of queer/people of color… A reach back into childhood and modern traumas, and the things we do to get through it all. The underlying thread through each piece on the album is the idea of hope, and the lights we can try to turn on within ourselves with a hopefully positive outcome of helping others out of their darkness.”

Check out Negro Swan — and upcoming tour dates — below.

LONDON AMSTERDAM PARIS BERLIN COPENHAGEN REYKJAVIC DATES ADDED ?? LINK IN BIO. MORE TO COME. WHERE SHOULD I GO? I’M WITH THE SHITS https://bloodorange.net/tour

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Although Solange released this Dev Hynes production last year on her stellar TRUE EP, the young starlet has rehashed the single with a verse from the master of guest spots, Kendrick Lamar. To hear her tell it to Complex, “I wrote and recorded ‘Look Good With Trouble’ as a prelude to ‘Bad Girls,'” says Solange. “But decided to create it as a full song and add the brilliant storytelling of Kendrick Lamar.” Stream it below or head over to iTunes to purchase.

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