Summary Of The Song 'Cleaning Out My Closet'

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Raeen Roes Wilson or rather ‘Angel Haze’ is nothing short of a gift to listeners who crave raw sound. Almost every song, lyric, and hook recounts her troubled upbringing as well as how she is still able to lift her head up and move onward. She doesn’t feign the “okayness”, often heard from songs about lives of luxury. If Haze is in a bad mood, her music reflects it until the listener experiences it with her. She wields a sound that makes us want to cry with her and laugh with her and flip the world off, if that’s how she’s feeling today. It is because her sound is real and authentic, others can identify with it, understand and even feel it. “Cleaning Out My Closet” is a great example of this. It is a song that recounts incidents of sexual abuse

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