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Joey Badass at 2023 Sol Blume Pageant
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Key Takeaways:
- Joey Bada$$’ fourth studio album explores fame, solitude, and self-awareness with sharp lyricism and layered manufacturing.
- The venture options Ab-Soul, Rapsody, A$AP Ferg, and Ty Dolla $ign, including depth throughout 11 tracks.
- The album arrives forward of Joey’s fall run, “The Darkish Aura Tour,” kicking off in October.
Joey Bada$$ is aware of higher than anybody that it’s Lonely At The Prime. Friday (Aug. 29), the rapper lastly unveiled his much-awaited fourth studio album.
Becoming a member of beforehand launched singles like “ABK,” “STILL,” and “DARK AURA,” the 11-song effort has a little bit of all the things. Followers anticipate nothing much less from an artist of Joey’s caliber, and there are fairly a number of information certain to fulfill Hip Hop purists. On “SWANK WHITE,” for instance, the Brooklyn native and Westside Gunn commerce bars about Blueface and Chrisean Rock, Michael Jordan in ’95, and wrestling icons like Mick Foley and Juice Robinson.
Joey has no alternative however to rise to the event, contemplating who he’s rapping alongside. A$AP Ferg reveals up on “HIGHROLLER,” Kai Ca$h and CJ Fly make for spectacular collaborators on “BK’s FINEST,” and Ab-Soul and Rapsody convey their A-game on the aforementioned “STILL.”
One other spotlight comes courtesy of the Ty Dolla $ign-assisted “READY TO LOVE,” which appears partially impressed by Joey’s relationship with Serayah. He raps about needing a queen to match his king to allow them to be “similar to the Cartеrs,” and within the second verse, he references Saweetie’s “My Sort”: “Fairly younger factor, yeah, that is my sort / ‘Trigger she icy like Saweetie, I do know that is proper.”
Lonely At The Prime was initially slated to reach on Aug. 1, however in keeping with Joey, points together with his label prompted it to be pushed again to the top of the month. “They actually don’t f**king contribute to nothing, particularly this 12 months,” he stated of Columbia Data throughout a now-deleted video on Instagram.
Joey will hit the highway with Lonely At The Prime this fall. Beginning in October, he’ll be a part of forces with Ab-Soul and Rapsody for “The Darkish Aura Tour,” which is scheduled to make stops throughout North America earlier than wrapping up Nov. 20 in Philadelphia.