Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing month. Cakes Da Killa, “W4TN” While we all wait for Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” tour and visuals, here’s another landmark work of queer Black club music …
shaped me to who I am,” says Blxst. The dream started to feel real once he scored a placement on Hitta J3’s “Do Yo Gudda” in 2013, a local hit that earned a remix with Kendrick Lamar, YG and Problem. “It lit a fire.” Blxst’s true identity as an artist came into focus in 2017, when he fell in love …