They broke up shortly after, and Walker has since dubbed London the “ghetto baby daddy from hell.” The deteriorating relationship became Walker’s next source of inspiration, and secured her place in the long history of R. His work with Walker scored him the biggest placement of his career, on Ariana Grande’s 2020 chamber-pop single “Positions.” The two eventually started dating, and Walker gave birth to their daughter in March. London found his earliest success as a trap beat-maker, bringing a woozy quality to the music of Gucci Mane, Young Thug, and T.I., but he found his niche producing for Walker, applying his dazed and disorienting sample work to the softer palettes of contemporary R. Walker’s music is produced primarily by London on da Track, a composer specializing in distant-sounding arrangements and spaced-out synth patterns. of the past, but she doesn’t pursue it at the expense of her own sound, which is equally indebted to the rumble of modern rap and the sincerity of classic soul.
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“The first one was a fuckup / Second one was a no one / Third one was tryna come up / Fourth one, you said, ‘It’d be different, different, different’ / And I believed you,” she recalls on “Broken Promises.” Her 2019 début album, “Over It,” is full of charming exchanges between an assertive woman and her insecure suitors, drawing upon classic hits by Destiny’s Child and Usher. & B., itemizing misdeeds, lamenting wasted time, and putting the men responsible on notice. Michelle before her, Walker traffics in an argumentative form of R.
Few performers working today are more effective at expressing the exasperation that comes with a no-good boyfriend. In song, Walker usually puts herself in conversation with lovers and would-be partners-interrogating them when they’re being shady, questioning their alibis, accosting them when they’re caught in a lie, resisting the urge to make excuses for them. Her music operates under the soft misandry of the #MenAreTrash mantra, but it also sincerely wrestles with the difficulties of loving them. The twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Summer Walker is a master of confrontational balladry.
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