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Heems and Dev Hynes Team Up for the Heartbreaking Ballad "Home"

Lamenting relationships past in the most painfully beautiful way possible.

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Next month, the Queens rapper Heems will release Eat Pray Thug, his debut album. It's nothing like what people have come to expect from the former Das Racist rapper—at times starkly political, at others heartbreakingly personal, Eat Pray Thug retains the intense cleverness that has marked his work in the past, while completely destroying any false perceptions that Heems was ever a (trigger warning) "hipster rapper."

Below is "Home," which is slotted firmly under the "heartbreakingly personal" category. It's a duet with Dev Hynes that finds Heems on his crooner shit, lamenting a relationship destroyed. It finds no fault and places no blame, instead discussing a falling out in painful detail, with Hynes' intricate guitar work and delicate singing ramming the point home.