![]() ![]() Released five years ago this week, You Should Be Here served as the follow-up to the singer’s 2014 debut mixtape, Cloud 19. I added the mixtape to my library and spent the rest of my high school days drowning in the project. I saw myself in Kehlani: a young woman sitting at the edge of the world before her, ready to face what’s ahead. I had just subscribed to Apple Music when I came across its illustrated cover art - Kehlani overlooking her Oakland hometown and the Golden Gate Bridge as a plane flies above in the distance, the then-teenage singer surrounded by her essentials: a pair of Vans Sk8-Hi’s, an open laptop, and a MIDI controller. Kehlani’s second mixtape, You Should Be Here, dropped when I was in high school. Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage You Should Be Here showcased Kehlani’s ability to tell tales of self-realization in a way that was charming, candid, and vulnerable.
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