Kari Faux: Last News

Pink Siifu is an artist who draws from an emotive source as deep as his knowledge of Black musical tradition. Just as impressive is his prolific streak, which in the past two years has included standard and deluxe editions of the albums Bag Talk (with YUNGMORPHEUS), Negro (one of our favorite projects of 2020), the Fly Anakin collaborations FlySiifu's and $mokebreak, and his solo project GUMBO'!.

Sexyy Red is enjoying a breakout year, the kind where every move seems to propel an artist to an even higher level. Her Hood Hottest Princess project dropped in June and features both the viral "Pound Town" and "SkeeYee," which is climbing the Billboard Hot 100 right now.

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Everyone needs a little therapy, and Lil Durk — who lost his friend and frequent collaborator King Von in 2020 and his brother DThang in 2021, and whose long-running beef with YoungBoy Never Broke Again (partly related to Von’s murder) has been all over the internet again this month — is certainly no exception. In a new Steve Cannon-directed clip debuting the first two tracks on Dirk’s new album Almost Healed — out tomorrow (May 26) via Alamo — he gets some much needed time on the couch. In “Therapy Session,” the album’s intro and roughly the video’s first third, he takes in some wisdom from none other than Alicia Keys, who’s become something of a mental health guru after her own well-documented struggles with mental illness early in her career.

Mykki Blanco has shared a new single called ‘Summer Fling’ featuring Kari Faux – you can listen to it below.Produced by FaltyDL, the bouncy new track is taken from the rapper’s upcoming new mini-album ‘Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep’, due out June 18 via Transgressive Recordings.“I wanted ‘Summer Fling’ to feel like a song I could have heard at my middle school dance, maybe it’s because those were the years in which I was coming of age,” Blanco said of the new track.“Y2K aesthetics still influence me heavily at some point in the creation of my songs.

Tkay Maidza has announced that she will release new EP ‘Last Year Was Weird Vol 2’ next month – her first for 4AD. As well as announcing the EP, she has also released new single ‘Don’t Call Again’.That new track “is the conversation I wish I could have had in my relationships over the past few years – both romantic and non-romantic”, she says.