Rapsody is back in full force with the release of a new single produced by studio chef extraordinaire Hit-Boy.
On Monday (October 30), the North Carolina native dropped a bar-heavy track to mark her return to the rap world. Aside from a few singles and features, the 40-year-old hasn’t been very active since her last full-length studio record in 2019, Eve, which HipHopDX gave a 5/5 score upon its release.
As a nod to her recent comparative inactivity, she shared a snippet of her latest joint on Instagram and captioned it: “Allow me to reintroduce myself….”
“JESUS CHRIST!! [eight mind-blown emojis] LET’S GOOOOOO QUEEN,” Busta Rhymes wrote in the comments section, while Jay Electronica added: “Punish em!”
“They don’t pay me at the level that I rap at, crazy/ If they can’t benefit off you then they act shady,” she spits on the knockout cut that clocks in at just a little over two and a half minutes.
Elsewhere in the song, she raps: “Know my power, I know what my penmanship did/ Drop so many jewels, I couldn’t even put ’em on wrist/ That’s the sacrifice/ When you this nice, they wanna dim your light.”
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Last week, the Grammy nominee revealed that her new album is ready to go. The “Sojourner” rapper took to Instagram in late October to post a teaser video narrated by her “BFF” Darin Michelle, in which the latter sings the praises of the rhyme-spitter’s upcoming body of work.
“I just listened to your album again on the way home from the [Erykah] Badu concert,” she says. “And I just — I just needed to say that that shit is so special. It’s so, so, so special. It is like your heart on wax, and I just wanted you to know how special it is. And that’s it.”
In the caption, Rapsody wrote: “‘The hardest step she ever took was to blindly trust in who she was.’ Album done.”
