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6lack “Inwood Hill Park”

“Inwood Hill Park” is a snapshot of a relationship in an interesting moment – they’re established enough to have gone through a lot in the past, they’re fresh enough that the passion still runs very strong, but he’s so deep in his head about external stress that he’s reaching out to her in the hope that she can snap him out of it. I think some people might ungenerously look at this as a song about a guy asking for “emotional labor,” but I think the song works because it’s coming from a place of reverence and genuine intimacy. There’s a lot of lyrics in this song that are basically 6lack talking about career anxieties and a desire for artistic growth, and I think to some extent he’s putting those thoughts into a romantic song to convey the sort of trust he has in her. The mood of the music is a little ambiguous, with depressive angst mingling with horniness and a slight standoffishness. He’s so distracted that even the most directly sexual lines are hedged a bit in the phrasing, like when he sings “that pussy is…uh… elite.”

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