Jhené Alko
September / October, 2017
JHENÉ ALKOLET’S PLAYThree years ago, Jhené Aiko released her debut album, the candlelit Souled Out, and helped usher in a new age of sexual exploration with the line of the year, from her verse on Omarion’s “Post to Be”: “I might let your boy chauffeur me/But he gotta eat the booty like groceries.” The following year, the singer’s delicate purr curled into R&B tracks by everyone from Vince Staples to Nick Jonas, but since last spring’s TWENTY88, her joint project with Big Sean, she has moved bey...
