Rapsody has revealed that her new album is able to go, and followers couldn’t be extra excited in regards to the prospect.
On Thursday (October 26), the “Sojourner” rapper took to Instagram to submit a teaser video narrated by her “BFF,” Darin Michelle, through which she sings the praises of the rhyme-spitter’s upcoming new work.
“I simply listened to your album once more on the best way dwelling from the Badu live performance,” Michelle stated within the video. “And I simply — I simply wanted to say that that shit is so particular. It’s so, so, so particular. It’s like your coronary heart on wax, and I simply wished you to understand how particular it’s. And that’s it.”
“The toughest step she ever took was to blindly belief in who she was.” Album completed,” Rapsody wrote within the caption.
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No different particulars in regards to the new album have been launched, as of but — however it is going to be her first new music since 2022’s “Mud To Diamonds” observe, which she debuted stay on the ESPNW Summit in New York Metropolis.
The North Carolina rhymer dropped the observe to honor girls’s triumph in sports activities as a part of ESPN’s Fifty/50 Initiative, which strives to present girls athletes the protection they deserve. In collaboration with The Walt Disney Firm, the initiative goals to raise the dialog about equality by presenting content material and experiences that present how highly effective girls are in sports activities.
“This observe was created to honor a few of the best girls in sports activities, but in addition acknowledge the struggles they confronted to succeed,” Rapsody stated of the brand new tune in an announcement.
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“Mud To Diamonds” was the primary new little bit of music Rapsody followers have gotten from her since she dropped off her Eve album again in 2019. Eve was thought to be top-of-the-line albums of 2019 and options appearances from J. Cole, Queen Latifah, JID, GZA, D’Angelo and extra.
In an interview with HipHopDX, Rapsody touched additional on the themes of ladies’s empowerment explored in “Mud To Diamonds,” and cited Aaliyah as an inspiration for all of the methods girls might be fierce.
“Being a girl and what’s horny is available in all totally different kinds, and it seems to be totally different in many alternative methods,” she stated. “There’s nothing flawed with exhibiting your physique, however there’s nothing flawed with being a tomboy both. There’s sexiness in that, too. To me, the very best and most artistic means that I may do it was to do it by way of Aaliyah. So, that’s why I selected her. She was one in every of my inspirations.”
