Smino is back with the new single “I Deserve.” He made the song with his Nos., who serves as the St. Louis rapper’s official DJ. Listen to “I Deserve,” produced by Kal Banx and Wu10, below.
“I Deserve” follows Smino’s 2021 songs “MLK Dr” and “Rice & Gravy,” the latter of which he made with Monte Booker. Last year, he put out the mixtape She Already Decided, which followed his 2018 album Noir.
Read the Pitchfork interview “Smino Talks Love, Peace, and Hair Grease.”

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