Keshi stays vigilant at his local H-E-B. Is anyone following him through the produce section? Did that shopper’s gaze linger as he waited in line to check out? “I’m always surprised where I’ll get caught,” he told me in August. He isn’t concerned with watchful store clerks—he’s not juggling tomatoes or pocketing Juicy Fruit. He’s bracing for the passersby who recognize him and whip out their iPhones, the ones whose faces register, “omigod it’s Keshi squeeeee!!!”In the years since Keshi’s first SoundCloud post in 2017, the 29-year-old prince of lo-fi pop R&B has been finding it increasingly difficult to maintain anonymity in public, whether he’s strolling the New York City streets, dining after a show in Shanghai, or running errands around Houston. And with a…
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