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The Spellbinding Success of Kai the Black Angel

Erotic and charming, it’s no mistake that 19-year-old Kafiq Baynes has been nicknamed Kai the Black Angel. Flying onto pop culture’s perch as the all-white winged figure on Blood Orange’s Negro Swan cover art, he has quickly become a fixture of New York’s coruscating queer art and music scene—pushing conversations about blackness, queerness and masculinity forward one art piece at a time.