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Kehlani Reflects on ‘You Should Be Here’ Mixtape 10 Years Later: ‘I’m Grateful That It Changed My Life’
Billboard spoke with Kehlani about recording her Grammy-nominated mixtape 'You Should Be Here' 10 years ago for Black Music Month.
As part of Black Music Month, Billboard is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of You Should Be Here with Kehlani, discussing what the mixtape meant to them at the time of recording it, continuing to show love to Musiq Soulchild, feeling “haunted” by their videotaped reaction to their first Grammy nomination, and if they’ll ever bring back that one song that’s been removed. We’re in that space of innovation is starting to happen, which I don’t know if we realized that at the time, but now I can look back and be like, “Oh, that was the beginning of certain ways that music moves now.” Me and Chance have always had a great friendship and continue to do so. We got the Grammy nom, it started getting really psycho insane, and I spent a lot of years working myself to burn out — and taking on the fact that all these people were like, “You changed my life, You saved me.” It was a heavy weight to carry at 19, 20.
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