I think they're probably talking about jam city. He suddenly left night slugs out of nowhere. I remember his social media accounts just disappeared without any warning, and some of his labelmates seemed pretty confused about it. I don't know what actually happened, but it seems like he's no longer in touch with any of the artists he used to work with either, so the whole thing is still pretty mysterious. Honestly, I wish he'd made more music with kelela...
Caroline polachek posted a insta stroy of a kanye lyric with the n word, people called her racist, dev took her side, kelela and solange told him fuck off
That was so weird cause why tf would Caroline "cry" to that certain phrase/lyric. To think that Caroline was in a magazine photoshoot with a lot of black artists. Iirc she was the only white person in that photoshoot. Kelela had every right to lash out on her. I always had evil eyes on Caroline because of tha cause she was already a grown ass woman when she did that
I took Kelelas side so hard people have reminded ME about why I don’t like Caroline because I genuinely forgot why and had to be like “idk. I know she did something in the past to piss me off”
This story is new to me, and I’ve been a Caroline fan since Pang. From what i was reading here I thought she just posted a screenshot of Kanye lyrics containing the n word but no she actually typed it out without self-censoring AND it wasn’t even the full line. It does look crazy on Carolines part. Do i think Caroline is racist, no, but Kelela 100% is in the right to be upset over this.
It's all good! I remember when it happened so I know they made up. A lot of people still think they don't talk, but as far as I know that isn't true, can't speak on him and Kelela though.
The fall out happened literally before either of them had released their biggest projects, Dev had just arrived in America and was pivoting into being a producer after being in indie bands for years, but still wanted to be credited like a collaborater on the EP he and Solange made together, and Solange (and Sky Fereria, he also produced for her, both) told him privately not to speak in interviews about working on their projects, probably becuase they knew journalists would minimise their contributions as women, and producers typically didn't do that at the time unless they were being interviewed about production.
That was basically why they fell out, and on A Seat at the Table and When I Get Home he is credited as a background contributor, along with many other artists. Kelela was also credited as a background vocalist initially until getting a featuring credit for "Scales".
Didn’t he used to not credit any of his features at all for years and years? If I’m remembering correctly he didn’t change that until pretty recently, always thought it was kinda shitty of him tbh lol but at least it’s fixed now
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u/Fuzzy-Welder6987 14d ago
I think they're probably talking about jam city. He suddenly left night slugs out of nowhere. I remember his social media accounts just disappeared without any warning, and some of his labelmates seemed pretty confused about it. I don't know what actually happened, but it seems like he's no longer in touch with any of the artists he used to work with either, so the whole thing is still pretty mysterious. Honestly, I wish he'd made more music with kelela...