Tink ranks among Chicago’s greatest R&B stylists of the 2010s and 2020s, with a defiant, singular delivery and nuanced lyrics. The artist born Trinity Laure’Ale Home emerged from her hometown’s drill scene in the early 2010s as a veritable double threat, with an impassioned, conversational singing style and a hard-nosed approach to rhyming. As her career progressed, her stock-in-trade became kiss-off ballads and self-affirming anthems, mixing righteous anger with vulnerability and sensuality. Tracks like 2020’s Hopeless Romantic highlight “Cut It Out” and the 2018 single “Different” sketch dissolving relationships in painstaking detail; on “Lessons”, Tink analyses this kind of toxicity with the gift of hindsight, simultaneously eulogising lost love and reclaiming her self-respect. Her biggest mainstream singles include the celebratory club-ready track “Million”, a sensual flip of Aaliyah’s “One In A Million”, helmed by the late singer’s producer of choice, Timbaland.