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slurpinpuffs · 8 months

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hi yall! let me take you on a journey i went on today

it's pretty long, but read more to learn about some rather obscure black musical artists! ^u^

okay, so i found this song on a random Spotify playlist a long time ago and i *love* it. i love it a lot, all the women on the song have such amazing voices, but my favorite is the girl who sings the "respect the melanin, papi!" part (we'll get to her name later)

so i came back to this song today and was like, "i wanna hear more of them, especially my fav girl!" so i go to Google and look up NxxxxxS

oh, he was the producer i guess? the song's on his album, but he's not the singer. okay, let's look at the feature then, M.A.N

uhh, okay, that's not them either. i don't really know who this is honestly? but it's not the 3 women on the song, so i kinda don't care. let's find the music video for more details!

wow, they're really beautiful... but what have we learned so far?

the song is all English, but they're French!

the song has an artist named Senpu who apparently played bass? why were they not on the Spotify?

the girls are a group called Girls Do It Better(?)

two links!!!

to IG links, one to @man.bowdown (M.A.N again???), the other to @gdibcrew, which i assume is Girls Do It Better Crew

oh. neither of these pages exist...

i was able to find another IG page just by searching for gdibcrew, tho!

okay, so it's a women's collective in Paris. cool! but it's a private account with 0 posts, so it's pretty much dead. but there's a website li--

ah, that's down too :p

at this point, i tell this story to My Lovely Partner and they find a Vogue article titled Paris Girls Do It Better! Meet the City’s New DJ and Fashion Collective:

wow, still so beautiful... and there's more than 3! the collective debuted in 2014 apparently.

the article tells us a lot about these girls, their background and influences. check it out if ur interested!

even better, the article links to all of their Instagrams!

unfortunately, all of the links are either broken or lead to the wrong pages (the girls likely changed usernames) except for three:

Bibi Seck, who's a DJ. not one of the girls in the song, but i'm happy to have found her

Kyo Jino, the aforementioned male stylist who also wasn't on the song, but does have some really nice fashion on his page

and Khleopatre, who is a make-up artist, model, and art director with her own makeup line. notably, not a musician or any of the women on Brown Sugar, but i found a cool and artsy interview of her, so check that out if ur interested in her. she's really stunning and super unique

okay, so we learned more about GDIB, but not much about the specific women in the song, the point of this entire journey!

let's just google Girls Do It Better some more and see if we can find anything else

oh hey, a YouTube channel! only 4 videos, but it'll do.

OH BUT WAIT THAT'S HER

it's one of the girls from the video!! :O and she's the one from my favorite part of the song, too!!!

it's a freestyle rap called Singeries!! the video calls her Kitsuné Kendra, so i assume she's also Khenndrah from the article earlier

the vid also links to her Instagram, which links to her most recent single, ivresse (French for intoxication), on her new YouTube channel which has a bunch more songs, storytimes, and vlogs n stuff!! :D

she also performs at the Coyote Club with a non-binary artist named Sun Afrika!

okay cool, we found one! but what about the other two? it doesn't seem like all three of them made any other music as a trio sadly, but i found one thing!

a French interview on a site named Konbini linked to a JOUR/NÉ post on Instagram that tagged the girls. the three rightmost girls are the ones from the Brown Sugar video as far as i can tell, and the girl on the left seems to be another DJ/producer on the collective. according to the Konbini article, Yamiko and Bibi Seck are DJs/ producers, so the left girl may have been one of them, but it doesn't seem like she goes by either name anymore at least.

Unfortunately, @/noramens was a private account, but it was the same private account as the link to the name Lil' Felisha on the Vogue article, meaning that was at least her artist name at the time.

the next tagged account @/syra.mariah was active and open!

and just like that, we have another Instagram secured! it looks like whatever her name was in the Black Sugar era -- according to the article, Rainbow, Echo, and Lil' Felisha are singers in the GDIB collective, so she probably went by either Rainbow or Echo -- she now goes by SYRA!

her last song was in 2021, but her last video, a music video for her song Believe, was released a year ago, so she's still active! she has a really beautiful voice and style, so i'm super happy to have found her too!! <33

unfortunately, after googling around and searching Spotify, YouTube, and Soundcloud, i wasn't able to find any more info on the third girl on Brown Sugar, Lil' Felisha. based on the fact that he tagged Instagram page is privated with 1 post, and the fact that Lil' Felisha doesn't seem to be an artist on Spotify, i have assume she isn't really making music anymore. a bit of a disappointing end, as i really loved her performance in that song, but i'm honestly happy i was able to find the other two girls

so, in the end, here's who was singing on Brown Sugar:

(still not super sure who M.A.N is...)

thanks for joining me on this rly long story, sorry for keeping so many unnecessary details, i just wanted you all to experience the journey with me <3 go listen to Kitsuné Kendra's newest song ivresse (i also rly love Singeries on the old channel) and SYRA's newest video for Believe! and also, go listen to the song that started this whole thing, Brown Sugar! i promise, it's a really good listen. peace and love or whatever!!

#Kitsuné Kendra #SYRA #Lil' Felisha #Girls Do It Better #Brown Sugar #music #long post

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