St. Louis rapper Smino delivers his new project blkswn, produced by Monte Booker. As far as why he chose today to drop it:

March 14 is my hometown holiday. St. Louis sounds like midnight at the River Front at all times to me. It’s slowed down but turned up. People here speak from the heart, even our trap rappers speak that blues.

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