My senior year is when When I Get Home came out. No matter what I was feeling I’d blast that album. There are absolutely no skips! My favorites are “Beltway,” “Sound of Rain,” “I’m a Witness,” “Time (is),” “Binz” and “Almeda.” I felt so much listening to those songs. I’d cry. I’d laugh. And mostly I’d smile. During my senior year in high school. I was in the CNA program at my school. During 3rd-5th Period we’d go to a nursing home in the first semester taking care of the residents there. I enjoyed being in the ICU with the most critical patients. I saw a lot of people die and a lot of people live. When things became too much I’d sing one of your songs from When I Get Home. There was a patient who was battling cancer. She wasn’t doing well. She was in her late 70s. When you played music for her she’d wiggle her toes. I played your album for her every day. She’d squeeze my hand when I played “Dreams” or “Beltway” which was my favorite. I was there when she passed away. And I held her hand while she was going on to glory. She had no family here so I decided to be her family. You, Solange, and I were her family. I played her favorite “Dreams” as the monitor beats got slower. And eventually, she stopped squeezing my hand. 

Being in that program really helped me prepare for when my granny died. She died a week before my graduation. That woman was my heart. On the way to her funeral, I’d listen to “I’m a witness” because when you would say “taking on the light” it made me feel like everything was going to be okay. It gave me hope. That the darkness is over and now the light is mine and here to stay.

Home is where I find a place with man-made structure and nature. I found this abandoned development along I-35 coming home from Dallas and I spent about an hour walking around this place. I remember climbing up to the roof and just sitting there and looking up at the sky. Being from Texas and watching the film document Houston, cowboy culture, and city architecture,  When I Get Home meant the world to me when it came out. I was studying for a chem exam when the album came out and I was up until 3 listening and immersing myself in that album. I had been away from Texas for about a year at that point so listening to When I Get Home was a way for me to feel the (good) Texas energy I had been missing. If I ever felt imposter syndrome in college, or if I was ever stressed, or if I ever felt like I wasn’t a boss, I would put that album on to get me out of my rut; the album is a cathartic experience and an uplifting one.

My name is Tahir Mckenzie and I just wanted to say thank you so much for leaning into your gifts and trusting yourself to birth this album. I feel that as an artist it’s our duty to understand we are vessels and when we pull ideas from the collective consciousness we must act on it and be fearless in its pursuit.  I believe that When I Get Home came at such a pivotal time in the world when we needed healing the most. When I play this album it’s such a cathartic experience in a way that it uplifts me and it brings me the solitude and peace that I crave often. My absolute favorite pieces are “Jerrod,” “Beltway” & “Time (Is);” I’ve come to realize how meditative they are. Thank you once again, so much. “Home” to me is my place of solitude where I can birth the minI worlds in my mind, so I chose this selfie moment.

Solange, around 2019 (well when it first released) is when I first heard When I get Home. I listened to it as I went to sleep and I felt refreshed that morning. Then I listened to it again and I was like “omg this album is really beautiful.” I didn’t really know about law of attraction and manifesting too in depth but the songs I chose from your album that felt like law of attraction songs were “Things I Imagined” and “Dreams.” Those songs helped me render my childhood and visit all those good days and it helped me moving forward. None of the songs are skippable at all. I could listen to that album on repeat forever. The music was necessary and I thank you for trusting the world with it. I’m Tiyonna Johnson and I love you and this album I pray for many more but take your time 🤎 a picture that expresses home to me is my childhood self she is the reason.

I'm thankful and forever grateful for the moments I had with this album. Thank you for the times in which I felt lonely, and found that dancing to the sounds of "Down With the Clique" and "Way to the Show" was the best way to cope; to feel love with myself. On my lonely days, I’d find myself grooving, stepping, swaying my way out of darkness to each track, finding comfort in the jazzy hi-hats and the soulful synth bass of “Binz”, and jamming to the chopped and screwed jubilation that is “Almeda.” This album to me means solace and an escape from the darker parts of life that I encounter, taking me instead to a zone where I can truly find "home," and for that I am grateful.

P.S. here’s a picture I took outside my grandmother’s home in Australia. I miss it there so much; one of the only places where I really do feel at home (I currently live in Lebanon.)

“I am a Witness” represents another part of me....letting me know that I’m gonna be alright....almost like a prayer. Sometimes we have to speak things to ourselves in order to believe. “And I won’t stop till I get it right” means keep going, u get knocked down and u keep getting up...it will make you stronger. Keep getting up every time you fall and eventually you will stand tall. 

we may not always be on the same page but the love will never die. This is HOME♥️

Seriously, where can I begin? When I Get Home album is soo personal to me. This album is my healer! I get slight anxiety where my body starts feeling numb and this album soothes me. From the repetition in “dreams comes along way... not today”. And to follow up with my favorite line (which I have in my insta bio) “and I won’t stop, till I get it right. Good nite.“ 

My homegirls and I roll a blunt and drift in the clouds with your words. I feel soo connected to you as artist, but what I love the most is that you remain “human.” Don’t change, Solo, we feel you! Your true fans. I can go further and deep, but I won’t. Just know this album makes me feel proud to be a Black woman. Thanks for your contribution to the world!! You are loved sis.

When I Get Home was a completely different feel. I loved how the visuals paired so effortlessly with the music. My brain is more scientific (i.e., analytical) than it is artistic, so mathematical concepts and shapes appeal to me more. I loved watching the way that the patterns of people unfolded and developed throughout a scene. That was the most intriguing thing to me. To witness order and oneness. I love you, Solange. Always will.

I lost my father. When When I Get Home came out I would listen to it routinely every single day. It helped me feel at peace with the changes I was going through having to learn to cope with living life without my father. Your album will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you for your art and talent!

When I Get Home to me means, when I reunite with my dad again 🕊

Physically and metaphysically, When I Get Home has helped me with my move back home to Lubbock, Texas after graduating college, as well as mentally helping me return to my roots by reminding me who it is I really am and what it is I truly stand and care for. This album crossed my path at such a pivotal, transitional point in my life, and I’ve been feeling it and consequently finding out more about myself ever since. 

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it’s already been two years since this life changing work of art was released. Yet, two years later, and I still find myself listening to these songs and your lyrics every single day. My higher self and soul reminding my body and ego that “you can work through me, you can say what you need in/through my mind, I’ll be your vessel, I’ll do it every time. And I wont stop till I get it right.” Using your mantras as a springboard for my own meditations and manifestations. Facing the inevitably challenging, gut wrenching moments of life by “taking on the light” and using those experiences to, in return, be a light to and for others, ultimately bringing me comfort and solace. Learning to become comfortable with “the fear of the unknown that moves too close,” and choosing to feel those fleeting feelings rather than running away from them. 

When I Get Home has been a constant in my life; something to help ease the ending of eras and beginning of new chapters in my life. It has inspired me as an artist to create the work that I feel called to. You have inspired me to be the type of person and artist I want to be without apology. 

When I Get Home was released when my soul had no idea where home was. At the time I was getting my Bachelor’s degree in Scotland, being away from my home country Estonia, in a long distance relationship with a partner from Portugal, and my mom had just divorced and moved away to England. With people scattered around the world and me being torn between countries, this album brought me comfort, empowerment, and also gave me hope and dreams. It came with me on a journey as I left Scotland to work in Italy over summer, I fell in love again and broke away from a relationship that didn’t serve me well. The music was still there, carrying me through. Where is home? I’m still looking for it, but thus far it’s where my heart is.

When When I Get Home came out, I recalled back to November 2018 when Solange said she wanted to create something that would make your trunk rattle. Girl she gave everything and more. I stayed up late that night listening to every song. It changed my life. I breathe this body of art. I never knew I would experience a piece of art that would find itself inspiring me and helping me heal in ways I didn’t know I needed healing. I could cry, shake my ass, praise, vibe, get wasted, get lit, get happy to this album. It’s a perfect album. No skips. One of the greatest albums of all time. Thank you for blessing a country r&b and hip hop weirdo bitch like me with this. This is my “home”. Ima Atl hoe forever.

Sometimes I feel as though I grew up in airports more than anything. 

I was born in the small African country of Gabon. By the time I finished high school, I had lived in 8 different cities in 5 different countries. I’ve always been a little scared of the world. I’ve always been different in more ways than one. When I finally went to college, that’s when I realized I didn’t know where home was. I’ve always said I was from Gabon but as a queer person, how could I rep a country that suppressed my queer brothers and sisters. Without getting into too much detail, I had so much suppressed that I felt lost. In a place like Boston, it’s hard seeing yourself. 

When I Get Home showed me the beauty of all my intersections. 

I’m on an ever-growing journey of self exploration. Finding connections within my reflection and trying my best to give myself a little love along the way.  

Home to me is this home that I’ve built for myself, in my bones. Home to me is love.

When your album came out, I think it was one of the best times of my life. I was listening to When I Get Home everyday, I was dancing to it, meditating, crying with happiness (because at that time in my life I really had no fears and nothing could make me sad). It felt so peaceful like my life was an all-time meditation back then. I went to the seaside in the north of Poland (it’s called Chałupy and it’s a small town with caravans). That week was really the best time of my life and I can truly say that I found there, My Home. That’s not a place where I live everyday, but that’s a real home for My Soul. I was there alone but did not feel lonely. Actually I felt really calm and powerful at the same time. It was just me and the nature, me looking at the sea, me watching sunsets, me spending time with me. Thank you so much for this album, it really means the world to me, you have no idea!!

PS. I couldn’t choose one photo of My Home and I’m actually not sorry because all of these moments are really magical. These are all from Chałupy, from that one trip. Love youuuu!!!!!!!!!!

February last year I was sent back to Nigeria for a month, hadn't been back since 2015 and I was dreading it. Whilst on the plane I put my music on shuffle and the “nothing without intention” interlude came on. I know it's less than 20 seconds lmao but i'd been thinking about how to do things with intention for the past few weeks anyway and it was funny that that song came up and you sounded so happy in it. bc fuck these bitch ass niggas fr. 

I'm going to attach a picture of my grandmother, mother and aunt. They all individually have incredible stories that I hope I can tell you someday. They're my representation of home. 

My name is Kevin Quang ThaI Nguyen and your latest album has been nothing but an inspiration to me, as an artist and a fashion design student, dealing with 2020 was hard, after losing my job, dealing with my first breakup, and having to continue on my love for art and fashion and school projects was harsh after losing my main source of income. 2020 was unbearable but When I Get Home helped me go through and create some of my best work, your angelic voice has helped to relieve my stress away and the content of your songs has empowered me to believe in myself more and learned how to love myself. I cannot thank you enough, you are my main source of empowerment, never stop baby <3

These are some of my pics that express "home" to me, it is my graduate project, and this collection is all about embracing my Vietnamese roots and where I came from, and what home feels like to me.

I lived in Houston for one year from 2014-2015. I lived in the third ward and used to pass project row houses on my walk home from the bus stop. One day I decided to go in after wondering what it was enough times, and the people I met there were the ones to facilitate me experiencing jazz in a way that truly allowed me to connect to it. I was gifted a connection to the black musical tradition in such a deep way and understood how we could communicate with each other, document our lives, and shape our realities. 

Fast forward to when When I Get Home  was released. I immediately felt so connected to it. As a musician I was so inspired by your fearlessness in writing. Your use of repetition and experimentation carry with me and inspire me to try to reach into myself always and accept what I find in my creative process. The way that Houston seeps into the album throughout feels like a spiritual connection even though I was only there for a short time. I aspire to possess the clarity of vision and emotional resonance that I get from this work and will be forever grateful. 

It’s hard for me to encapsulate the feeling of home in a picture, but here’s one where I felt comfortable in my own skin recently.

Most of my family still lives in Houston, so even though I've been away for nearly 8 years that's home. Listening to When I Get Home is like experiencing a memory for me. It reminds me of driving on the endless beltway late at night, and pulling into that driveway, turning off the engine and entering that soft silence.

Me and my siblings are scattered across the states, so it can be tough to be complete at home. But I'll just value those moments and memories more and more. This is a picture of the last time my brothers and I were all home, our dad's 60th birthday party last year.

When I get Home was released at such a great time. I was in my second semester of my junior year of college, easily one of my most memorable years. A lot of bull shit occurred that year, and this album was my rock. 

Each time I listened, I found something else to connect to. When I heard the can I hold the mic interlude I was like yes! She’s expressing the feelings I have to a T. During this time I was really coming to realize and accept that there are many layers to me, so many. I realized the importance of respecting each layer of who I am. This album feeds my layers.

Each song on the album resonates with one of my layers. Each song kind of sparks something in me that is a little hard to explain. I’m not a dancer, but my body moves to your music. It’s like an instinct or something. It’s a very freeing feeling that I looove and fully embrace.  I love and deeply appreciate this album because it makes me feel. It helps me get through all my feelings, the good ones and the ones that are a bit unpleasant. 

On good days "Binz", "Jerrod", and "Stay Flo" stayed on repeat. When it was time to study, I played the whole album. After long days we would go on drives through the country, light up, and play the album. Whenever I was overwhelmed with work or life in general, the earphones came out and the album came on. Whenever I needed a break from listening to my roommates go on about nonsense, the earphones came out and the album came on. On my walks to class, to work, around campus, literally anytime I was outside there was a 95% chance I was listening to that album. This went on for at least the first month, if not more, of its release 😅

Now I’m a graduate, and back home. When I feel a little lost I find myself coming back to it. The album hits different now, but only in the best ways. It reminds me of good times, times that were a bit trying, and of all the lessons I learned during those times. It really is an important and cherished aspect of this journey of mine.

For some reason, I feel most connected to it outdoors, so it inspires many many impromptu walks through nature. I chose a picture from one of my favorite spots to walk through and listen to your album. Outdoors, away from all the noise is where I feel most at home. 

Happy Anniversary to a Gem! I hold this album close to my heart, 💛

When I listened to When I Get Home, I felt like I was going on a journey of self-discovery. I felt like each song was taking me to a different phase of life. It sounds so dramatic, but it does. Whenever I am stressed out, feeling depressed, or struggle to get out of bed, I play this album. I remember that life is a journey, and this moment will not last forever. 

The photo I picked was taken 2 years ago when I took a trip to NYC with friends. I always feel more myself when I'm in NYC. I felt like I was home.

When I Get Home. A transformative experience that provides joy and expresses creativity. Completing these tasks with stunning visuals and abstract compositions arranged in a way that flows together smoothly for the viewers satisfaction. Home: a place of pure safety, decorated with meaningful possessions and gathered experiences.

I feel so connected to When I Get Home because it has so many layers. I love how her visuals are very clean, yet edgy, but consistent in undertones, simple in fact. Her visual is TRULY Art! Each time I listen to her album, I’m drawn in a little deeper. Always inspired to connect with myself as I am connected to her lyrics. The way she delivers her lyrics has a mirroring effect on me. I connect with her lyrics, then I see me. Just wow! This is a timeless Piece! Thank you Solange! Ready for MORE!!!!

This photo expresses “home” to me because I am inspired by Downtown Detroit. Detroit begins and ends at the River. I am connected and inspired after returning home here after living in Atlanta for 10 years.

– LaKiesha “Goddesslulabelle” Adams

Natal Pluto 4th house. On the yellow line I took through the city, I listened to When I Get Home and read Bell Hooks religiously—all too coincidentally seeing that home is no destination, but a sense of belonging. It’s in my friends’ arms and my queen-sized bed and my dreams and the things I imagine. It’s the decade’s worth of summers spent on my grandma’s countryside veranda in Jamaica, watching roosters and mules and goats. It’s the liminal space of peace that awaits me everywhere. The soft echo of comfort caressing my mind’s eye no matter where I am.

I was a junior in high school when When I Get Home dropped. I got my airpods and sat down on the couch in my school’s debate room. I’d never heard your music before, yet when I first heard you sing “saw things I imagined..”, I was immediately transcended. I felt like I knew you and found a new piece within me at a time when I barely knew myself. I lost all my friends, lost a boyfriend, and was lost in general. Now (with this album), I’m a senior. I’ve become a major advocate for change surrounded by people who love and support me. I’ve become open to love in new ways: self love. I know who I am now. I’ve built my home that I’ve dreamed of. However, I have a new problem. I got into the college of my dreams (along with 6 other schools), but I can’t afford it. I’m lost within the future now, trying to determine what’s going to be not the new “right” path, but MY path. I can’t listen to anyone but myself. So now when I turn on When I Get Home, I’m guided that my new home (or place in the world) is where I choose next. It’s what I make it. There’s endless possibilities.

Here, in Argentina, there's a famous-and beautiful-tango called "Volver" (sang by the great Carlos Gardel), that narrates the intense mix of emotions of a traveler that comes back home after a very long time: the anguish, but also the joy, the nostalgia, the feeling that gives looking back to the path that one has walked upon return. When I Get Home feels like that; for me, it means an example of proudness, it means a kind of liberation from the weight of the past but not as a way of forgetting it, but rather as a way of forgiving ourselves and appreciating all the stones on the road, all the steps that we had to take to grow. Sometimes I hear "Dreams", take a deep breathe, and let myself slip in this soothing sense of relief, of trust in myself, in god, in the goodness of my own will and the positivity of those who I choose to surround me; it reminds me, as an artist, that the ride can be long and excruciating, but it's a beautiful one, indeed. And that's what this record reflects on me, it works as a reminder of the endless possibilities that an artist can have. And I thank you for that. 

You said "pick a picture that means home to you". I can't decide and, to be honest, I guess I'm still trying to find the exact place that feels like home to me. Maybe it will be a stage or a place that I'll adopt in the near future, or maybe it will end up being the house I grew up to. For now, I decided to do a collage of the people that make me feel like home. The people that I know, in my heart, I will always come back to them. My family, my friends, my partner (and my dog lol). Those people, and their endless love, are the home where I live. 

Thank you Solo, as I said, I really hope that you get to read this.

I listen to this album to shake my ass, smoke, look at the sky, bawl my eyes out, reminisce, understand, interpret and recollect. I use it as a spiritual check in. I listen to connect back to myself in the white-washed world that is my environment. This reminds me of the home I've had to build in my body. This is a video (& photo) of me playing almeda one night with a friend, and many of these nights have ensued. thank you for being a constant inspiration, and I hope to create music that guides people back to what makes them the happiest like you.

When I Get Home was so important to me because I was going through depression in college and I need something to release my stress and this album was the first time I ever heard from Solange and I absolutely was impressed with her work and "Beltway" is so underrated

It was a cold spring. I hit a bump in the road to completing my dissertation. I was stuck professionally, spiritually, physically, mentally, and now academically. I’ve always prided my imagination and my ability to be creative even in the most dire circumstances but I felt like I was unraveling. I needed something to take me away and bring me back. When When I Get Home came into my life it inspired introspection that I used as fuel. Laying myself bare in the words, rhythm, instruments, and visuals made me turn inward. It was still a cold spring, but I was different. I defended my dissertation 8 months later. 8 is the spiritual number for new beginnings. I dedicated my work to black girls who use education to better themselves and their situations. Home is Mississippi and home is this relentless mind of mine. Home is my manifestation of my hard work, which I hold in title and in hand.

The album means a lot so I have a little more to say 
(Please can I hold the mic?!)

I listened to When I Get Home for the first time on a road trip with four of my closest friends. I’ve known them since we were LITTLE — we have loved, grown, cried, laughed, sang/danced, studied, prayed with every iteration of each other for the last 11 years. It was our last spring break in college and we rented a beautiful spot and just drove out one dark morning. "Stay Flo" was the official song of the trip!

I listened again throughout my last semester, a quiet & busy summer at Texas A&M & I was ready to get up outta there (for context, I was a black woman at a PWI). It was a time when I was fearfully but eagerly confronting how big & boundless the world was about to get for me. I spent so much time with myself and fully in my black, female body & my confidence? Tuh. She was in her first bloom in this new perspective. glowing, okay?! it really was “Binz” for me. “Binz” was my skincare routine. It was off the HTX after that, which yes meant driving around third ward trying to time the songs to my location lol. 

Another memorable time was actually when I drove down to Marfa with my older brother and two friends to see the Director’s Cut of When I Get Home at chinatI weekend. WHEW. It was the boundless world I imagined the summer before. That moment when Word becomes Flesh? That was that road trip for me & of course When I Get Home on full volume, all doors open (ratchet butterfly doors lol) in the middle of nowhere, TX. I remember "Dreams" playing, I felt bigger.

Your album helped me want to witness the world in more exciting and courageous ways and to see, hear, feel, taste, smell and experience the world in real time. I now see how much I shrunk myself in college, trying to excel in white spaces, in a competitive—mostly white degree program, in white culture and I attribute that to my figurative atrophy. That last spring break, I finally put my hair back into long-ass braids like I had as a child and that was me going back “home”, back to a place where I truly knew the world was so big and I could be too—just as I am (my mother gave this gift to me + the ppl around me affirm it) Love the album & the moments I had with it.

Say, sis, where do I start?! When I Get Home has been so instigative to my feelings, both arousing and repressing my moods.  I think this past summer connected me to When I Get Home more than ever.  Having spent so much time in introspect then going out into the world only to be met with protest, anger, and other emotionally charged and depleted BLACK people.  Trying to situate ourselves in the WORLD in all of the heaviness during a worldwide pandemic.  Trying to figure out where we belong in all of this--looking for home and connection.  When I Get Home was made for US and I, like many others, only had the four walls of this HOME you created in these nineteen songs to rest. And for thirty-nine minutes and two seconds, the heaviness of it all feels weightless even. Thank You!

Your music has accompanied me through many journeys - being a place where I can go to find comfort, joy, or a description for a feeling I can’t seem to describe on my own for years now. When I Get Home accompanied me through a different journey. one filled with immense confusion and pain. It was there to go back to and find something new. I found out I have pots, your music was next to me through that and other medical issues. Thank you for everything that you give to the world and for everything you keep for yourself. you have taught me for years. about myself. about new subjects. about expression. About anger. About joy. And about home.

It's going to that place that makes you feel free. 

It's a placidness that you feel in the depth of your soul.

It's an instant surge of joy and abundance that swaddles you and never lets go.

It's the chatter of the leaves in the distance. 

You're the fresh air and ray of sunshine that embraces my face in the morning.

I'm so grateful for you and everything that you embody.

 Thank you for sharing your art with me.

Your music has found a way to penetrate my heart and bring me back to the sweetest and most distinct moments in my life. Two years after the release of When I Get Home, here's another story with a song for emotions that I don’t even have the lexicon to begin to articulate. I have used this album to calm myself, to manifest, to work, to twerk, to make love -- you name it. Thank you for giving me the foundation for my 22nd year, the year I can create whatever I visualize. I lost and found myself in this album. I rebuilt my home.

Home calls for an inner dialogue. Home follows me and simultaneously falls away. I am a spatial being composed of my mother's faith and my father's inclination for learning. Home is a complexity that addresses who I am and a reminder of the distances I've traveled. Home is how I measure. Home was my first friend. It was where I learned to trust and the first place I experienced heartbreak. I find things to bring home to make me feel more at home, ironic. Home is in the mundane, it is in the everyday. It's in the lives I've touched and the lives that have left indentations and tiny scratches on my body, my vehicle. Home is my vehicle, it's how I get around. Maybe I haven't discovered home yet? Searching is home, to me. There is a quiet engine humming, holding me, and guiding me. When I Get Home has been that engine. I’m grateful. When I Get Home calls me. When I Get Home summoned me to move closer and closer. It saved me and reminded me of my power. Some days I need it in whole, other days I just need to feel like I am "Jerrod" so I can be reminded that I belong and that there is something else waiting. 

When listening to When I Get Home I am reminded of the many places I call home. The house I grew up in, my first apartment, the homes of my families that felt like my own. All of these places gave me the space to grow. I am not who I am without home. Home will be with me forever. Home is within me. This album will never let me forget that.

Your album When I Get Home means so much to me to start off with.  It helped me through one of the most difficult times in my life where I seemed to question many things.  This album bought me meaning to where I realized that everything happens for a reason and to never give up when things may seem to be difficult.  I play this album on a daily basis because it keeps me driven to make my dreams become reality.  Also, that you are the best version of yourself when you feel at home or the place you feel as you belong.  When I Get Home inspired me to just let go, live in the moment, and to release all negative energy.  ❤

When I Get Home means so much to me. This album has helped me get so much closer to myself. It's a work that is so much about identity and being. It has helped me do things with intention. To create and exist with intention. It's such a timeless piece of work. I listen to it at least once a day. Over the summer and throughout quarantine I experienced really bad anxiety attacks and When I Get Home helps ground me. It calms my mind. I aspire to create with as much intention as you do and I cannot wait to see what else you can create. I also got the chance to see the director's cut when it came to Philly and seeing it on the big screen... it's so much more beautiful than I had ever realized. Your work will always inform and inspire myself and my creations. love you 💗

I long for the celebration of When I Get Home.. truly home, truly centered, returning to my core, after coming out of the hypnosis... clearer thinking and thinking clearly because I share home with these two (pictured)

Helps me to celebrate along the journey to the celebration 🤗

You dropped When I Get Home within the orbit of my birthday--I'm a Pisces. I embraced it with my whole self because I was far from my hometown (Houston). The way you sequenced the album was genius. Its progression garnered so much growth and wholesomeness within my spirit. In fact, it makes me feel like a new person whenever I listen to it. The sonic landscape you crafted clears low day. I be swangin to it on I-10 too: swangin on them swangin on them swangin em days. I have so much appreciation for you and your work, Solange. Keep making moves.

plants grow like family and my family is my home.

This amazing body of work forever changed my life and helped me become more grounded. I felt very connected to When I Get Home as I too have spent a very long time moving from place to place and I’m still in the process of getting to my When I Get Home moment. When I Get Home grounded me and It made me feel like peace and self love exists within me and within other Black people. I connected to the album in more ways that I’ll ever be able to articulate, it is something that grounds me everytime I listen. Thank you 

Here is a photo of me in my old room, it’s a self portrait that I took of myself right after I woke up

Home is more of a feeling than a particular place for me.

Home at times is my vivid imagination that I often let run wild when I should be focused and more grounded. When I Get Home reminded me that my mind is home too, especially with the opening of "Things I imagined"

Home is where your truth unfolds. Where you are met with the mask that you wear when traveling with those that may not be "Down with the Clique". 

Sometimes, the home feels like when you're the furthest from those closest to your heart. On the Way to the Show, you can adopt a new identity – even if only for the night. A nigga will lose their authenticity trying to Stay Flo. 

My parents were both born on the beautiful island of Haiti. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and then moved to a small town on the west coast of FL called Port Charlotte. It was small, racist, and a place that tried to steal the Dreams of many black boys and girls. Though, I spent most of my young adult life there I wouldn't consider that my ONLY home.

Home is the feeling of safety, security, like a deep inhale after holding your breath underwater. I experienced this when I visited the country of Kenya. To see billboards, models, TV commercials with people that looked like me – that was a home that I didn't even know I was craving until I tasted it. It was a real deal "My skin My logo" vibes.

Home is where I can take my bra off and Deal with the Freak'n.

When I Get Home encapsulated local and foreigner for me. I'm not from Houston, Texas but each song gave me a glimpse of what home may be like for those that are natives. Solange reminded me that wherever home is, there should be a "Time" to return. Home is "the only way to know your heart. And it gives me hope for the trials and the fear of the unknown. You gotta know..."

"When I Get Home" is a fantastic album, one that encompasses change, family, unity, & a love for beauty. When this album was released I performed my poetry to a public audience in a competition for the first time. This album felt like a meditation. all of my stresses and anxiety were eased with this concept album. Each of the songs sounded so distant but so familiar at the same time. I'll admit I haven't been listening to this album as much as I wish I have recently. but you know damn well i'm more than ready to love this album with open arms all over again :)

reaching into my record collection as we speak! thank you for everything.

When I Get Home helps me when I’m happy or sad. It lets me know that everything is going to be okay. I want to twerk, cry, scream, harmonize and smoke that good good till I fall asleep... it’s like my adult lullaby ❤️

First of all, thank you for sharing your gifts with me and the world. It's almost two years since When I Get Home has come out, and I have deadass listened to it every day since its release date. My favorites are Down with the Clique, Stay Flo, Binz, Dreams, Almeda, Jerrod and basically every other track too. I clean to it, cook to it, walk and run to it, listen to it when I'm happy and sad and tired, shared it with my friends, lovers and my students ( I'm a teacher). This album has been a defining album for me in my late twenties. I love it so much, and the album itself is home to me. It sounds and feels like home, and I cannot imagine the last two years without it. You have inspired me to flesh out my black womanness, you have connected me to so many notions manifested of what being a black woman could be. I loved the visual album that goes along with it, and I also play that whenever I get the chance. I love this album and I love you and everyone that was a part of it.

When I first saw/heard When I Get Home I called a friend of mine and told her “Solange has been listening to or watching Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants (die hard Stevie fan btw) just from the starting of “Down With The Clique”. That song and every song thereafter on the album is hypnotizing, dreamy and sensual. 

I literally smoked one, laid down in the middle of the living room and just closed my eyes, expanded my mind and listened. It was moving, it was flowy, and made me feel calm at home. It’s still my go to when I got chaotic shit happening or I stuck in my creative rut. I even put on the extended video movie version to feel the aura of the sounds and then see it through the visuals. Still timeless to me and will always be. Feels like this... hella feels like home. 

Ain’t much but it’s love when I always get home.

Happy near anniversary for When I Get Home can’t believe it’s almost been 2 years. Congrats and just well done. 

When I Get Home, is the ONE album that physically changes my state of mind and my thoughts. Almost numbness all through my brain and body, allowing my soul to move with the Houston bass, and the solo harmonies. There’s no thinking about anything but the sounds and the vibrations when it’s on. 

You don’t listen to When I Get Home you experience it. 

This is my grandparents house, They have had this house my whole life. It is full of memories and nostalgia. This is true home. Where my family lives and loves. 

Also the moon makes me feel at home, we all see the same moon, all experience the power it gives us. It will always be there for us just like the sun and the stars. A home that lives forever.

When I Get Home for me is a declaration of loving oneself. Every expression, emotion, and experience. A life journey.

First of all, I’m from Houston. The sounds of When I Get Home are perfect for cruising the streets. There have been plenty of days when I rode around the block a few extra times just to get through the rest of the album. If people don’t listen to this shit in their car with the speaker turned up, I don’t know what they’re doing!!!

I’m still in complete shock and awe of the fact that I was in the visuals for When I Get Home. I’m not completely sure of how the world worked out that way, but I am forever grateful.

Happy almost 2 year anniversary of When I Get Home!

The pandemic has opened a new universe for me. Somehow, I've grown closer to your album over the past 10 months. People think of masks, social distancing, and workers as an integral part of this journey, but When I Get Home, is essential to me. To my health and spirit. I live you (yes LIVE) and I love your work. Forever grateful for the gifts you give us! 

(P.S. When I Get Home, I like to sit on my hot, humid porch, donate blood to mosquitoes, blast Solo, Sun Ra and Dizzy G while I people watch)

When I Get Home was my first official connection to your music and I have never stopped exploring and replaying it ever since. When I Get Home has been my company on my highest and on my lowest and at every play I find something new to love and enjoy! When I Get Home is where I go whenever I need refurbishment. love u and thank u for all the emotions, sol!!!! ❤️

and as to 'what' expresses home to me... whether at the clouds or/and at the road, I just love anything that involves traveling...

When I Get Home makes me feel undoubtedly black and beautiful. I am dollar Kool-aid and fish fry's in the summer. I am Beauty Supply trips with my mother. I am double dutch hitting the sidewalk. I am the hours spent in the Church kitchen with my grandma. I am George Lee, Lemar Smith, Fred Hampton and the four little girls. I am my mother’s manifestations and my ancestors' wildest dreams.

I remember listening to ”When I Get Home” and the first song that stuck out to me was “Things I Imagined”. The melody, the harmonies, the simplicity really moved me in a way I really can’t explain. It’s my favorite on my manifestation playlist. Binz makes me feel like dancing in my kitchen enjoying life, it brightens my mood every time. Also another manifestation playlist favorite! There’s a song for every feeling, “Way to the Show'' instrumentals are fyeee. That transition into Jerrod shall never been overlooked *chef kiss*.  When I Get Home is the feeling of understanding from the misunderstood. Everyone involved in this project thank you bc wow. I’m relistening while writing so I can properly interpret my feelings and now I just wanna stand in my sunroof while someone’s driving. That’s what When I Get Home means to be me pure bliss and serenity. 

And this photo that reminds me of home is this picture I took at my grandparents’. The sun is one of my favorite things and every time I look at it just makes me smile :) Feels like a little bit of heaven peaking in.

When I Get Home means serenity and peace for me. It makes me feel singular. Singular in my mind, body, and soul. Its cohesiveness brings peace to me. The vocals at the end of I'm a Witness takes me to somewhere in another realm. I’m free from the bondage and corruptions of my mind when listening. I’m one but also a part of something bigger. Like all of your fans, we are one and I’m a part of it. I feel connected to other people when listening. WE are one, singular, but together. This album treated me gently, thank you for the experience.

If we’re speaking freely here, quite frankly I’m a bad bitch. As head of the baddest bitches yourself; I’m sure you’re quite charmed to know that a fellow commander experienced nothing less than pure delight when “When I Get Home” adorned my ears! (I’m kidding🤣🤣) 

This album truly reminded me that it is completely okay to be multifaceted. The mesh of the many different artists featured on this album was incredible! Also you had one of my favorite poems written by The mother of Ms. Debbie Allen and Ms. Phylicia Rashād. My twin sister recites that poem to me all the time and I just find it beautiful. 

I sage, twerk, and meditate to this album and I find it intriguing that it comes from one body of work. 

Thank you for representing all forms of black girl in every way possible

Simply, feeling. Remembering how much I love to dance and how natural it once was to me

Learning how to feel my body again instead of going through life on autopilot, guided by the mystically linear sounds of this album 

Being consumed by the space where the mind and body are seamlessly in harmony

Remembering what LOVE feels like. To ME. Without the aftertaste of the fact that it eventually ended or anyone else’s experiences blurring my own. 

The excerpt sampled from Pat Parker leaves me speechless. Surrounded by the polyphonic instrumentation that persists throughout the entire album, it truly encompasses the FEELING of things like “love” and “safety”. Which is hard (impossible?) to describe with just words... I tried!

I truly can’t put into words what When I get Home means to me, but to sum it up, it means being still, finding inner peace, and finally getting to the light at the end of the tunnel. It also means embracing every part and piece of who you are and leaving nothing compartmentalized, or hidden. 

I always listen to When I Get Home when I am in solitude and every time I begin to feel more confident, unrestricted, powerful and magnetizing to all of my dreams. Music has always been my most powerful source/ portal to healing, transforming, and  connecting with myself. This album has been that source for me. Besides bringing out my vulnerability, it also allows me to be free. Free in my mind and body.

Thank you for your art in general & especially When I Get Home specifically. 

I’ll never forget when you started the rollout. My friends and I were fucking screaming on the phone for days lmaoo. It was so nice to hear you in the way that we did. So stripped and elegant - yet gangsta. Something you always do so well. 

The album has always helped me center myself and calm down when anxiety got me in a chokehold lol. It showed me that an album can still be meaningful without overproducing it or over-explaining. 

There’s so much I could say about this album but the main thing is that it has helped me heal so much spiritually. It makes me go inward - to get to the grittiest of my emotions and figure them out. 

Here’s a pic of me recording with a friend days ago which is what home means to me, truly. Making music is such a sacred and tender process that brings me joy no matter the time - especially when I do it with someone I love!

Wow, I cannot thank Solange and her team enough for sharing the masterpiece that is When I Get Home. Quite literally my life has changed for the better all because of ‘do nothing without intention’. Intention has been my driving force ever since and I have been so aligned in my abilities, talents, gifts and everything in between. This is a picture of my dorm room at Howard University in the Fall of 2019. I would play When I Get Home straight through while lighting my favorite candle and eating some Trader Joe’s fried rice. It wasn’t much but it was so perfect. Thank you thank you thank you.

When I Get Home is such an aesthetically inspirational album that uplifts me. I listen to the album everyday, and the first song I go to is Dreams because I have dreams of my own to make it in the medical realm as a Dentist. When I listen to Dreams, I immediately go into this spectrum of confidence and focus and realize that my dreams will come true. “Dreams come a long way, not today.”, but soon. Overall, the entire album boosts my confidence and it is completely different from other artists musically and sonically. I’ve attached a photo to this email, and it is a picture of me (left) and my cousin (right) This photo represents “home” to me because my family will always stay close to me, and I will always return to my family even if they are facing the worst thing possible. I love them, and I love your music.

When I Get Home is such an ethereal and beautiful experience every time I listen to it. I just get lost in the sounds and it overtakes any bad feeling I have. It's in my top 5 favorite albums ever. I've watched the short film a lot and the cinematography really inspires me. Thank you so much for making something really incredible, musically and message-wise.

"When I Get Home" is a special album to me because this was the first album that I stayed up and waited for it to release. Once that clock struck 11:00 pm I listened and I fell in love with your voice and music. I truly want to thank you for this piece of art that you have given us all. To me it has a meaning of escaping reality and just getting to really find my true self. Attached is a photo, taken by me, of a dish that I made. (It’s skirt steak with Russian kale and Korean noodles)  This reminds me of home because I often make this dish at home and while I construct it I take the time to really admire what I have around me and not to take it for granted.

This is Anuraag. My story for When I Get Home is that:

It was snowing outside and my first year of college was going very well. The album released when I was literally going home for Spring Break from college, and I’ve genuinely been playing it ever since. My fondest memory of the album is playing it on the flight back home from Columbus, OH to DC, and being the amazing album it is, it got done right as the flight landed, no kidding.

Listened to it throughout the break. The picture is of me when it was raining one of the days I chose to visit Georgetown, DC, and didn’t go back home because the vibe was just right. Played Beltway driving home. I hope you get to read this message, Solo, because this album means too much to me. One of my favorite albums of all time. Thank you for this work, Solange.

To me, "When I Get Home" is a meditation on the divine force that lives within all of us. It's repetition washes over & swells up through the soul like a spring of Florida water. I'm from North Florida where the springs are healing and ancient, where the soul of the Earth springs forth from the ground, flows through our Black & Indigenous forebears, and washes over and renews our spirits. Where joy and sorrow and mystery and quietude coexist. Springs are a portal to a deeper world of truth & meaning that lives below the surface of our lives. This is what this album and home mean to me.

My name is Allison Gale, I am an 18 year old girl from Kentucky. I watched the When I Get Home Director’s Cut on shrooms three times in a row. I cried. It was the most beautiful experience of my life. You are truly a visionary. The shrooms combined with the content of the film left me with an overwhelming sense of love, compassion, and immense gratitude for life. I am beyond excited to support you in whatever you choose to do next; I know it will be beautiful. Thank you for being the artist and beautiful soul that you are. God bless.

When I get Home, exhibits everything I strive to be as a young, Black woman. It is grace, it is virtue, it is struggle. And yet, at the end of it all, there is always hope and love. 

In my darkest days and in my happiest I've turned to you and your work. When I was missing my brother who transitioned from this Earth to me sitting alone by a river in Japan, content with life, When I Get Home has been the one consistent. 

Hello Solange I am Alyx Roby. When I Get Home is a symbolic statement meaning feeling finally free able to express the comforts of being in my own space. The album means stepping into myself, the true me, through the music I have found what it is to be soulful, artistic, speaking my truth but in a sexy historic way. A pic of me on the journey of When I Get Home.

When I get Home feels like a warm hug supporting me during hard times, a form of escapism that fills me with euphoria. It makes me feel electric and the most powerful I’ve ever - Love from Bristol, England

When I Get Home inspired change in my life. And accepting a new way of thinking and seeing life. You open my eyes to expressing feelings that the world always tries to make you feel you not allowed to express anymore once you reach a certain age.

When I Get Home means everything to me. I listen to the album when I feel like I need to reconnect with my first homes - myself and my family. Home is their arms.

When I get home help shaped me, as a black transwoman, to go for my dreams unapologetically black, without fear , to be care free but careful with the decisions I make, to create a true path for myself to be authentically me. I Truly Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart For This Masterpiece.

This picture represents home to me because I’ve lived in many places but have learned that my home is my inner spirit as long as I have myself anywhere can be home 🖤

To me, When I Get Home means honesty and true self expression, it embodies the complexity of home and family and all the little things that give them meaning.

When I Get Home means freedom to me. It means calmness. It’s a new way of seeing things, new horizons to cover. Knowing there’s so much more out there, which is amazing to feel at a time when I feel so trapped and lonely at home. 

When I Get Home for me means discipline and focusing in a non linear but expansive format. This picture attached is actually a still from a video I created. It represents transition to home.