Fuck Yo Feelings

by Robert Glasper

Overview

Robert Glasper's 2019 seemed comparatively inactive release-wise -- amounting to the co-production of Philip Bailey's Love Will Find a Way and smaller roles on Shafiq Husayn's The Loop, Tank and the Bangas' Green Balloon, Flying Lotus' Flamagra, and Brittany Howard's Jaime -- until the keyboardist offloaded Fuck Yo Feelings. What started as a session booked for the leader with drummer Chris Dave, bassist Derrick Hodge, and turntablist Jahi Sundance developed into something far more communal and experimental than any of the quartet's Robert Glasper Experiment recordings. Dozens of instrumentalists and vocalists took part, and in extemporaneous fashion helped Glasper create this willfully diffuse mixtape of oblique incidental instrumentals and full-blown songs that vary wildly in style and sentiment. Forget flow. It's introduced with a vulgar roast and peppered with other comic banter and humorously processed pronouncements. A floating seven-minute ballad of longing with the sighing voices of Bridget Kelly, SiR, and Song Bird is inserted between two of the set's most cutting tracks, powered by Rapsody, Baby Rose, and Queen Sheba. A gospel-fusion wriggler begins to sputter halfway through to set up the title song, a tipsily elegant scolding from Yebba. What sounds like a simmering work in progress with Mick Jenkins is placed early in the set, while a fully formed Yasiin Bey collaboration is slotted toward the end, trailing a sequence of wayward noodlings. It peaks around the middle with "Endangered Black Woman," where Glasper and company place a twisting and turning groove beneath vocals from Andra Day (in casually assertive Erykah Badu mode) and poet Staceyann Chin (who is furious and commanding). The outgrowth of Fuck Yo Feelings -- its making must have forged new artistic bonds -- could be of greater import. The defiant group chorus on "This Changes Everything" alone is proof that it had to happen. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	01/17/2020
Label:	Loma Vista
UPC:	0888072151543
Rank:	7760

Tracks

1. Intro
2. This Changes Everything
3. Gone
4. Let Me In
5. In Case You Forgot
6. Indulging in Such
7. Fuck Yo Feelings
8. Endangered Black Woman
9. Expectations
10. All I Do
11. Aah Whoa
12. I Want You
13. Trade in Bars Yo
14. DAF Fall Out
15. Sunshine
16. Liquid Swords
17. DAF FTF
18. Treal
19. Cold

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Robert Glasper   Primary Artist,Keyboards
YEBBA   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Muhsinah   Featured Artist
Queen Sheba   Featured Artist
Herbie Hancock   Keyboards,Featured Artist
Taylor McFerrin   Sound Effects
Affion Crockett   Featured Artist
Terrace Martin   Synthesizer,Featured Artist
Baby Rose   Featured Artist
Song Bird   Featured Artist
Staceyann Chin   Featured Artist
Bridget Kelly   Featured Artist
Yasiin Bey   Featured Artist
Andra Day   Featured Artist
Denzel Curry   Featured Artist
Mick Jenkins   Featured Artist
SiR   Featured Artist
Buddy   Featured Artist
Cordae   Featured Artist
Bilal   Featured Artist
Derrick Hodge   Guitar (Bass)
James Poyser   Keyboards,Featured Artist
Rapsody   Featured Artist
Chris Dave   Drums

Technical Credits

Chris Dave   Producer,Composer
Muhsinah   Composer
Queen Sheba   Composer
Herbie Hancock   Composer
Muhammad Ayers   Composer
Theresa Wilson   Composer
Jahi Sundance   DJ,Engineer
Curtis Jews   Composer,Producer
Taylor McFerrin   Sounds
Affion Crockett   Composer
Baby Rose   Composer
DaVionne Starks   Composer
Marlana Evans   Composer
Song Bird   Composer
Staceyann Chin   Composer
Tim Maxwey   Composer
Qmillion   Recording
Bridget Kelly   Composer
Yasiin Bey   Composer
Andra Day   Composer
Denzel Curry   Composer
Muhsinah Abdul-Karim   Composer
Mick Jenkins   Composer
SiR   Composer
Buddy   Composer
Cordae   Composer
Tim Maxey   Composer
Bilal   Composer
Derrick Hodge   Composer,Producer
Robert Glasper   Composer,Producer,Recording Producer
Marlanna Evans   Composer
Rapsody   Composer