
Yaya Bey pursues freedom with new track "raisins"
Yaya Bey has shared the new single, "raisins" as the final offering ahead of her forthcoming new album, do it afraid.
“It’s hard to sum up ‘raisins in a small burb but it’s the pursuit of love, joy and freedom with the full knowing that there will also be pain,” Yaya says of the song. “It’s a surrender. It’s me giving myself permission to dream. It might not happen. But maybe the real joy is not in the materialization but in the dreaming itself. The name is inspired by a Langston Hughes poem called Harlem where he says ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?’”
Do It Afraid follows Yaya Bey's 2022 album, Remember Your North Star, and the subsequent follow-up Ten Fold.
do it afraid will be released on 20 June via drink sum wtr, and is available to pre-order now.
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