With her first child on the way, singer-songwriter Kehlani decided to pause the deeply personal album she was working on to record a fun mixtape. The result is the aptly titled"While We Wait."
With a baby girl on the way — she’s due almost any day now — Kehlani prepped for maternity leave by pausing the intensely personal album she’s been working on to cut “While We Wait,” her third mixtape and first project since her bright major label debut, 2017’s"SweetSexySavage." She’s written and sung about failed love and sexual freedom and her turbulent childhood and the darkness that led to a suicide attempt with a transparency and optimism rarely seen in pop stars her age. And as one of the few queer women of color to hit mainstream pop radars, she’s become a pivotal voice for her generation.
Pregnancy has been very emotional for me, and it’s taken a lot of my energy. So I knew I was going to need more time on the album. I knew I was going to have more stories that I had to work through and get through. In the midst of that, I was just like,"Let me just put that on pause.
“While We Wait” seems as if it bridges the gap between your early mixtapes and the direction you went on your debut. Was that intentional? There's a lot of experimenting. Since the album, there’s been just random movie stuff or commercial stuff that I’ve released. It’s sort of like,"All right, label, I'm going to give you all this and you all can get your freedom on this. But this is where we meet in the middle." I'm very fortunate to have a really blessed situation. I have no issues with anybody at my label.
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