He is a singer who carries himself like a rapper. He doesn’t fit the old loverman archetype exemplified by figures with even more nondescript names like Joe, Lloyd, and Mario. If you’re among the many wondering why an R&B singer with a genre-perfect name like Ricardo Valentine would instead choose a nondescript moniker like BLACK and render it in unpronounceable leetspeek, understand that 6LACK (pronounced “black,” not “six-lack” or “slack”) is not that kind of R&B singer. That title and 6LACK’s stage name both reference Zone 6, the crime-riddled section of East Atlanta where he grew up. “I’m an R&B nigga with a hip-hop core.” That’s 6LACK, the Atlanta singer born Ricardo Valentine, on “Scripture,” a track from East Atlanta Love Letter, the #3 album in America this week.
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