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6LACK's Popular Music Videos
Stay Down
Lil Durk, 6LACK & Young Thug
Calling My Phone
Lil Tjay & 6LACK
Pretty Little Fears (feat. J. Cole)
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OTW (feat. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign)
Khalid
Waves
Normani & 6LACK
Imported
Jessie Reyez & 6LACK
Nonchalant
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RPG (feat. 6lack)
Kehlani
Prblms
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Know My Rights (feat. Lil Baby)
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Artist Playlists
6LACK Essentials
Rough and full of 2 a.m. honesty, his voice pulls you too close.
6LACK: Influences
The intimate hymns and R&B confessionals that underpin his sound.
Set List: 6LACK’s SINCE I HAVE A LOVER Tour
Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
Artist Biography
In his Up Next interview for Apple Music, 6LACK remembered the night he pulled up next to a car and heard the driver playing his music. Not talking. Not on her phone. Just nodding her head, chilling, connecting. He’d had some lean years—at one point, he’d thought about scavenging food from the trash. So to get a glimmer that all of his work had been worth it? That a quiet kid from East Atlanta who felt like music was his only mode of expression was getting heard? Even he had to admit that was pretty cool. “One of those moments where it’s just, like, ‘OK, that’s kind of dope.’”
Born Ricardo Valentine, Jr., in 1992, 6LACK—pronounced “black,” but a reference to the police precinct covering East Atlanta—started battle-rapping as a kid. As he developed, his sound got softer but also more focused, splitting the difference between the muscle of trap and the minimal side of modern R&B. Like Drake or The Weeknd, he can be cold. But his best tracks—“Unfair,” “Nonchalant,” “Outside”—mix that coldness with a sense of modesty and self-reflection that make him relatable even when he’s being a little unlikeable. Or, as he puts it on “Sorry,” “I’ma write when I’m wrong.” Yet however painful his experiences have been, turning them into art makes them worth it. “In, like, 25 years when I’m 50 and wrinkly as s**t,” he says, “I’ll know this was my favorite part.”