Dear Maxwell,
Hey, what's up? I'm really proud of you. After having disappeared for nearly a decade, you came back hard with BLACKsummers'night.
I've been a fan from the get-go. Urban Hang Suite has to be quintessential Soul if I've ever heard it. Your velvet voice, slick production, deep lyrics, and original concept is nothing short of genius--it's beyond genius. Embrya is beautiful from beginning to end, and Now offers so much insightful introspection. In the musical desert and lyrical instability we now find the industry, you are one of the few artists I can count on to come hard and to come with the real, and you have never disappointed me.
Until now.
What in the hell do you think this is Maxwell? It was bad enough when you were teasing us with the BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT trilogy. I was mad, but I was more full of anticipation than anything. When you finally dropped BLACK... I was somewhat fulfilled. From "Bad Habits" on, I was ecstatic. I had your album on repeat for MONTHS.
Now, when July is approaching and blackSUMMERS'night is supposed to be dropping, you say, and I quote, "I had a plan — every year something new, and I thought that that would be a good enough time to sort of give people space to feel like they weren't being inundated by what I was doing...I've had this entire trilogy with me for years, for four or five years, so I can wait. I just want people to get it when they want it. ... At this point, it's in their hands" (source).
The first album had nine songs on it. Do you think our appetite would be whetted? Do you think that we'd be like, "Oh, Maxwell is going to drive us nuts if he releases another nine-track album. Those first nine tracks were too much. He's everywhere. I'm tired of him!" NO. No true lover of music and you will be willing to wait for you to drop another album. When we're surrounded by the Waka Flockas and Gucci Manes who are making our ears bleed, what in the whoa made you think that we wouldn't want some real, genuine, lyrical stuff? You say it's in our hands? Well our hands are outstretched, damn it, now give us some music!
You're being really selfish and unreasonable right now. No one is feeling inundated by your music. If anything, it's a breath of fresh air, a panacea, the sun shining after years of darkness. You've had this album for four or five years, and you get to bask in your own greatness; when's our turn!? Why would you deny your fans of your glory? Of your genius? Of your awesome, awe-inspiring musicality?
I just don't understand why you're doing this. It's like slow torture. I sincerely love you Maxwell, and your music. I have supported you for years and will continue to. And ultimately, I will just have to deal with your decision, but this is a hard pill to swallow. I don't appreciate your musical deprivation, and I would urge you to come out with the album soon, because doing again what you did with the first album is just gonna piss people off. We'll still buy your album, but we will mean mug the hell out you at your shows.
Thanks. This was really therapeutic for me, and I know you really love and respect your fans. I'm just saying that we need water in the desert homie! Water in the desert!
Sincerely,
Kimberly
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