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Saba and No ID Threw Everything Into the Pot on Their New Album


“I’d be like, ‘I ain’t gon’ play you that.’ And he’d be like, ‘Play it, man!’”

Private Collection is surprisingly bright for a Saba album, trading the trauma of 2018’s Care for Me and introspection of Few Good Things for songs about community, dating, and dreadlocks. Saba still takes time to reflect, like on the singles “How to Impress God” and “Woes of the World,” but he’s at his best on a song like “Westside Bound Pt. Where did that idea come from?Saba: Man, in the studio, literally I looked around — I had one of my homegirls, a couple of the homies, the engineer — and everybody had locs.

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