I had to let you know that I was going to do you well. It has a soulful vibe, and, in totality, is really just about agreeing. So this was one of those great linkups, but it was just all about timing. Paak before all of the success that he has amassed from those years until now, and Wale has always supported me on songs. It was great at that period of time to work with Anderson. 'Mutual' was one of those songs that I always loved and was hoping to get an opportunity to put out, and now that opportunity has came. And at that time, I was doing all different types of creation. The thing about creating art is, sometimes, in the moment, it might not fit. Paak, Wale, and also Knxwledge and Greg, who helped produce and create this record. So yeah, that's a fun song you can share with your lover.” My stance on it is I'm gonna do you well. And 'Do You Well' is just really speaking to the onus of creating a great experience when you meet someone and it's exciting and you send them nudes and it's very fresh. It's got that bounce on it-it's definitely club-ready. “That's another track produced by Smash David. It's cool to just highlight, from a man's perspective, what a goddess is-just like I think women have their versions of what a man is, or a king.” A goddess is also a behavior modest goddess is also an attitude, it is a persona. And a modest goddess is pretty much a goddess, but you might not see it on the outside always. “I really wanted to highlight what this concept of a goddess is, and I was playing around with some lingo, and I was introduced to a few ladies that were modest goddesses.
“Not just through the music, but by the kinetic energy in which music and energy transfers.” Here Omarion talks through each song on the project. “I think what's probably the most important thing as an artist and in sharing is always getting a perspective of your personal experience and how we're all so very tied together,” the singer says. By and large, though, it's Omarion's voice, the details of his life, and his sensibilities that inform the bulk of the songs here for a vibe that goes down easy. Hints of the day's popular styles-from trap to dancehall-inflected R&B-form some of the album's most appealing moments, as well as features from former labelmate Wale, T-Pain, and Busy Signal and an unexpected collaboration with Ghostface Killah. Despite its nostalgic inspirations, The Kinection sounds very much of its time. “It was the first time that we got together in 15 years, and I kind of showed the behind-the-scenes of how everything is interwoven as it pertains to creative art and how it's presented,” he says. The group's 2019 reunion and its companion documentary planted the seeds for the project. In 2001, via the single “Uh Huh,” the world was introduced to B2K, a then-burgeoning R&B quartet composed of J-Boog, Raz-B, Lil Fizz, and Omarion, whose wealth of charisma made him an early fan favorite. Completing a circle, Omarion toured with a reformed B2K in 2019 before striking out on his own again on 2020’s The Kinection, a sinuous collection that sees him embrace trap and dancehall sounds while keeping up with guests like Busy Signal, T-Pain, and Wale.“ The Kinection is another thread to the long-standing history of my music career,” Omarion tells Apple Music of his fifth solo album, inspired, in equal measure, by the present and the past. After a stint on Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood, he returned to the charts with the slinky 2014 hit “Post To Be” and his fourth album Sex Playlist. A 2006 collaboration with Timbaland, “Ice Box” showed his increasing maturity as Omarion channeled his heartbreak over a relationship’s end into what became his biggest solo hit. The Grammy-nominated album established Omarion as an R&B powerhouse who was just as compelling on the lean and funky Neptunes-assisted “Touch” as he was on “I’m Tryna,” a slow jam that showed off his knack for being both salacious and sweet.
“I’m here to make you feel good.” And that’s just what he did with 2005’s O. “That was the moment I realized I’m here to make music,” he said. As he told Apple Music, he felt like he came into his own artistically when he was able to work with The Neptunes on his first solo album. As the teenaged frontman for the R&B boy band B2K, Omarion lived every young singer’s dream of performing in front of screaming fans and lighting up the charts with hits like the frisky “Bump, Bump, Bump.” But for Omarion-who was born Omari Ishmael Grandberry in Inglewood, California, in 1984-that early success was just the beginning of a richer creative life.
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