Kehlani has introduced the forthcoming arrival of her fourth studio album, Crash.
Set to hit streaming companies on June 21, the Bay Space singer revealed the quilt artwork as she introduced its launch date in an Instagram put up on Wednesday (Could 15).
The paintings options Kehlani sitting on high of a shattered and crushed automotive whereas donning a metallic costume and boots.
The primary single, “After Hours,” arrived earlier this month.
Crash follows 2022’s Blue Water Street, which featured appearances from Blxst, Justin Bieber, Syd, Jessie Reyez, Ambré and Thundercat. The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, incomes 22,000 album-equivalent items in its first week.
Earlier than that, Kehlani hinted at doing a collaborative album with Russ.
In footage shared by HipHop-N-Extra in 2021, the 2 had been noticed at a membership planning for a doable LP.
“I simply instructed Russ I might make an album with him within the membership,” Lani mentioned within the clip. “Pay attention, maintain her accountable, as a result of I doubt it,” Russ responds.
After HHNM shared the clip, it surfaced on X (previously referred to as Twitter). Russ responded to the tweet in a since-deleted put up writing, “Russ x Kehlani undertaking” adopted by pair of eyes emojis.
And whereas nothing got here of it, it wasn’t the primary time a undertaking from the pair was floated round.
Again in 2020, Russ had already contemplated a possible joint effort with Kehlani however it featured extra gamers than her on the undertaking. After releasing his CHOMP EP in November 2020, he spoke with Ebro Darden on Beats 1 and detailed why an R&B follow-up could be the precise transfer after strictly rapping on CHOMP.
“I may need to return with 5 songs and it’s me and Keyshia Cole, and Kehlani, and Ari Lennox, and there’s not an oz. of rap on it,” Russ instructed Ebro. “And you set that proper subsequent to CHOMP and it’s like, get pleasure from.”
Information of this new album is a welcome salvo for followers of the singer, who was reportedly sexually assaulted whereas performing in England in December 2022.
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Following her performances, Kehlani reportedly posted a message on their Instagram Tales alleging they’d been inappropriately touched whereas being escorted by the gang after one of many exhibits.
“I’ve made video after video after video and deleted it as a result of i don’t need any video of me as indignant, triggered, crying upset as i’m wherever,” she wrote within the put up, which has since been deleted. “i don’t care how sexual you deem my music, my performances, my enjoyable with my associates dancing at golf equipment, or ME….
“that doesn’t give any of you the precise to cross a boundary like sticking your palms up my skirt & pulling my underwear to TOUCH MY GENITALS as i’m being escorted by a crowd after performing.”
Kehlani added: “this shit made me sick to my abdomen. as a sufferer of sexual assault, i’m endlessly triggered and mindblown.”
