Watch Jamila Woods Reveal All in the NSFW "SULA (Hardcover)" Video

Jamila Woods releases a video for her Toni Morrison tribute.

Chicago singer Jamila Woodshas released the video for "SULA (paperback)," a tribute to acclaimed author Toni Morrison. (Morrison's second novel, Sula, was published in 1973.)

The video, which was directed by Fatimah Asghar, is gorgeous. The video is Not safe for work and features Woods stripping down to the nude.

When Jamila released the single, back in August, she wrote a touching tribute for the author, who passed away in 2019.

"Grateful for all the ways Toni Morrison's work has helped me better understand myself," she wrote on Instagram. The caption accompanied a brief quote from the novel: "Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely."

Woods explained the significance behind the novel in a press release.

"Sula was the first Toni Morrison novel I ever read," she wrote. "It inspired the first chapbook of poems I ever wrote. The novel shows the evolution of a friendship between two Black women and how they choose to navigate society's strict gender roles and rules of respectability...returning to the story several years later, it gave me permission to reject confining ideas about my identity designed to shrink my spirit...this song is a mantra to allow myself space to experience my gender, love, intimacy, and sexuality on my own terms."

Woods previously paid homage to over a dozen Black writers and musicians on her second album, 2019's Legacy! Legacy! Tracks like "Zora," "Eartha," "Miles," and "Muddy" paid tribute to Zora Neale Hurston, Eartha Kitt, Miles Davis, and Muddy Waters, respectively.

Watch the video for "SULA (Hardcover)" below.