where angels emerge

Where Angels Emerge is a 13-track album inspired by my own personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s a blend of neo-soul melodies, affirmational lyrics, and alternative rap, inviting listeners into a space of vulnerability, growth, and celebration of the self. As someone who is passionate about uplifting marginalized voices, this album is an extension of that mission—particularly for those trying to find and love themselves.

Sonically, I’ve drawn inspiration from artists like SZA, RUBII, Saba, Aaron May, Lexa Gates, and Noname. The album explores themes of remembrance, resistance, and acceptance, with a focus on embracing both light and darkness. It’s soft and calming, yet powerful in its lyrical content, aiming to resonate with those navigating their own path toward self-belief and empowerment.

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AN INTERACTIVE ALBUM

WE NEVER / LAND

Instructions

- Play this on a walk down a foreign path, an unfamiliar road, on a new adventure

- See the world with new eyes

- Take a picture or sound recording of things you find surprising, beautiful, or that catch your attention in unfamiliar ways

- DM what you've found @thelandthatneverwas

Never/Land is an archive of lost things found by curious souls. Whatever brings you to this journey, trust it. Through the collection of our collective consciousness, I hope Never/Land can be a home for the wayward.

Enter Here

Afro-pessimist theorists Saidiya Hartman, Jared Sexton, Frank Wilderson, and Orlando Patterson argue that Black people exist in a state of social death, defined as the condition of enslavement or lack of personhood. This project investigates the application of social death, specifically how the abstraction of the theory creates a disjunction with the everyday. I argue that regardless of the critical analysis Afro-pessimism invites, it does not fully reckon with the affective experience of Black people today. I wrote and produced Never/Land, an interactive album, in order to explore the affect of social death and its impact on my Black consciousness. By bringing awareness to the suffering that I experience as a result of the legacy of enslavement, I found that social death is an opportunity for new possibilities of Black life. Ultimately, Black people must mourn the death of the social in order to find a world capacious enough to hold the simultaneity of life and death. From social death emerged the archive of Never/Land, documentation of beautiful things found by those in bondage.