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How Saba Connected With His Dream Producer No ID for ‘The Private Collection’

Saba details how he and legendary producer No ID connected for what's arguably going to be the rap album of the year with The Private Collection.

After earning early accolades in the mid-2000s as part of the budding indie Chicago rap scene, alongside artists like Chance The Rapper, Noname and Mick Jenkins, he independently released three albums — the aspirational Bucket List Project, the grief-stricken opus Care For Me, and the lineage studying Few Good Things — that were thematically and conceptually rich. The result is a self-described “tasting menu” of songs that find him ruminating on his career accomplishments, love, Black hair, and perhaps most notably, just how confident he is in his skills. I’ve been popping s–t throughout my career, but most of my albums have been created from a moment of circumstance — these somewhat tragic events that happened in my life — and then I need to go to the studio and have my therapy session.

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