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Khalid and The Get Down

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Today I have some music for you by the R&B singer known as Khalid. The Texas native has dropped some really good music within the past few months and puts his own style to the genre of R&B. Each one of his songs is different, giving him a range of sounds and vibes and even genres. If anything, that is one of the things that makes Khalid such a cool and smooth artist. Khalid is very good at genre bending and bringing in other musical flavors from genres across the board. With this song, we get a bit of chillhop and some blues work as well. These are two styles that you wouldn't normally put together, but oddly enough they work very well! We really get to hear that blues influence in the way Khalid incorporates the guitar. There is a really pleasant flow to the guitar melody and is one that involves a lot less strumming and more picking. That gives the guitar line a crispness that makes us pay attention to the flow of the song and gives us more of that smokey room vibe. There...