The Pop Corporation

Everything we’ve heard from the imminent Yaya Bey album has been great, so this is a further call for you to be ready for the release of ‘Do It Afraid’, which is coming out June 20th. We think it’ll be one of the R&B albums of 2025.

Don’t wait for someone else to get you into it – you be the people getting other people into it.

We adored ‘Dream Girl’ (listen on the site, here) and we are really enjoying new song ‘Raisins’, which is a gentler, more thoughtful affair compared to the last one.

Bey says of it: “It’s hard to sum up ‘raisins’… but it’s the pursuit of love, joy and freedom with the full knowing that there will also be pain. 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 materialisation 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?’”

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