Leikeli47 has outlined the main points of her upcoming album: Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Solely might be launched on June 13. Featured on LP is the brand new track “Mushy Serve,” which additionally comes with a video directed by Dana Rice. Watch it beneath.
Spanning 11 songs in complete, together with the only “450,” Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Solely is Leikeli47’s first album since wrapping up her acclaimed magnificence trilogy with 2022’s Form Up. The brand new album was executive-produced by Leikeli47 and Harold Lilly, and options manufacturing by the identical group that helped outline that magnificence collection.
“The complexion of this album is coming of age,” Leikeli47 mentioned in an announcement. “It’s about innovating my areas and the way I solely promote out to the second. My soul, my reward, and my service isn’t on the market. This new LP is private and playful. Harmonic and melodic. Uncooked and heartfelt. Edgy and elevated. It’s a dedication to the visionaries who reside in their very own world. The masks is off and the attitude is aerial.”
That latter line refers to the truth that, up till only in the near past, Leikeli47 has all the time carried out—each in movies and onstage—whereas carrying a masks or obscuring her face by way of different means. She uncovered her face for the primary time in final 12 months’s “450” video. Shifting ahead, she plans to maintain her identification in plain sight as a strategy to embrace a contemporary begin.
Revisit Eric Torres’ interview “Leikeli47 Is Able to Give Hip-Hop a New Look.”