Jazmine’s Tale (feat. Jazmine Sullivan)

The strength of Black women as storytellers stands out on arguably the most celebrated album of this year, Heaux Tales, from Jazmine Sullivan. Through stories told by Jazmine’s close circle of women, the album explores themes of love, sex and Black womanhood. In this episode, we talk with Jazmine about her writing process, taking breaks from music and her upcoming performance at the Super Bowl. / Show Notes / For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-jazmines-tale. Hanif says that Jazmine’s album reminds him of the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack. Jazmine cites Cardi B and Lizzo has some of her inspirations.Jazmine says Whitney Houston’s Super Bowl rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is her favorite take on the song. Jazmine Sullivan’s album is Heaux Tales. / Credits / Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.