Lucky Daye Announces 'ALOUD!' for October 16
Lucky Daye is done asking permission. The Grammy-winning R&B singer has announced his fifth album, ALOUD!, arriving October 16 via Warner Records — his first project since leaving RCA. The 15-track set features Leon Thomas, Pusha T, Muni Long, Akeem Ali and Atlanta rock band The Paradox, with longtime collaborator D'Mile back in the production mix. The title plays on the tension between "allowed" and "aloud": Daye told Rated R&B, "I used to think I wasn't allowed to do what I wanted. Now I'm screaming."
The rollout is already moving. Lead single "Nowhere Fast" has climbed into the Top 20 at R&B radio, and the follow-up "Talk To Me" — co-written with Frank Brim and Dimitri McDowell over psychedelic guitar and '80s-inspired percussion — arrived October 2 with its official video. Daye previewed the album at a listening party inside New York's Aura 57, telling ESSENCE the response got "bigger and better" with every song, and he's set for the GRAMMY Museum's The Drop series in Los Angeles on October 14.
Drake Keeps the FOMO Rollout Moving With Two New Videos
Drake isn't done with the FOMO vault. On October 6, the Toronto star uploaded official videos for "Solar Eclipse" and "Cold Shoulder" — the two Don Toliver collaborations from the expanded HABIBTI (FOMO) — to DrakeVEVO, four days after the songs hit streaming on October 2. "Solar Eclipse" flips Ella Langley's country hit "Choosin' Texas" into a trap-soul record stacked with Texas shout-outs (College Station, Sugar Land, Katy, Fort Bend) and borrows from Bun B's 2005 "Get Throwed"; Langley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor hold writing credits on the interpolation. "Cold Shoulder" pairs Drake and Toliver with Yebba.
The backstory is pure Drake rollout theater: he praised Langley's pen in her Instagram comments ("Goated Pen") earlier this year, showed up at her Little Rock concert in August, previewed the record during DJ sets in Houston and Toronto, then tucked the full song inside the FOMO short film in September — briefly, before an edit removed the Langley backstage footage. Now it's official.
