6LACK Talks New Album "Love Is The New Gangsta," PRBLMS, Fatherhood and Young Thug
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
6LACK has always made emotionally intelligent music, and ‘Love Is The New Gangster’ is the latest installment in the evolution of Ricardo Valdez Valentine Jr. The Atlanta-raised, multi-Grammy-nominated artist pops into the studio for the first time to discuss his fourth album and the vibe is thoughtful and reflective. The 33-year-old opens up about numerology, purpose, shadow work, and the idea that simply writing about your pain isn’t the same as actually healing it.
Deeply inspired by his two children (who grace the album’s artwork), 6lack discusses gentle parenting, understanding your own parents more deeply once you become one yourself, the shift that occurred when he cut off his locs (and the history hair holds), and why he feels like he’s on a very intentional path.
We also talk Atlanta’s musical DNA, battle rapping with Young Thug as a teen, and then collaborating with him properly later on (and on this record), working with his partner QUIN (also the mother of his second daughter) on the track “Out of Body,” writing with your partner about your partner, working with Kehlani, Lil Tjay, Leon Thomas, Timbaland, Gorillaz and Elton John (on “The Pink Phantom”) — and why ‘Love Is The New Gangster’ reframes love not as softness, but as strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, beautiful human. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Zach. |
| 0:08.6 | That is Zan. |
| 0:09.1 | We welcome to the studio for the first time ever. |
| 0:11.4 | I want to say six. |
| 0:12.7 | I want to say black. |
| 0:13.9 | Just say hello. |
| 0:15.0 | Just to black. |
| 0:15.9 | How you doing? |
| 0:16.4 | How you doing? |
| 0:16.8 | How you doing? |
| 0:17.7 | Good to see you. |
| 0:18.3 | What's going on? |
| 0:19.5 | Good. |
| 0:19.8 | And honestly, both work. |
| 0:21.0 | Like, most people call me black. Family, they call me six. Never six lack. So, yeah, it's pretty it. That's it. But you're, you are connected to the number six. Absolutely. Yes. Like, deeply, deeply connected. And it starts with a birthday. and then it's connected to the zone at which you grew up in Atlanta, |
| 0:38.8 | but it's also to the zone at which you grew |
| 0:37.8 | up in Atlanta, but it's also your life path number. Where else does sick show up? My daughter's name is |
| 0:44.4 | six. That's right. And yeah, you kind of hit the nail on the head. Like it's just been a |
| 0:50.4 | reoccurring number, life path number i was born um daughter's name is six |
| 0:56.0 | area i grew up in and really just my favorite number as simple as that i didn't understand life path |
| 1:02.1 | until today okay right i had no idea what the life path number really meant so i did it so thank you very |
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