Yaya Bey Remember Your North Star Cassette Tape Indies 2022
Tracklist:
1. intro
2. libation
3. big daddy ya
4. keisha
5. nobody knows
6. alright
7. meet me in brooklyn
8. it was just a dance
9. pour up (feat. DJ Nativesun)
10. uh uh nxgga
11. reprise
12. rolling stoner
13. don’t fucking call me
14. i’m certain she’s there
15. street fighter blues
16. mama loves her son
17. either way
18. blessings
Enigmatic, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, Yaya Bey, is due to release her most expansive work to date, Remember Your North Star, on 17th June 2022, the debut album on newly relaunched label Big Dada. The album explores the landscape of Black music via Yaya’s storyteller approach and examines themes of romantic turbulence, female empowerment, fraught parental relationships and self-actualization, with production
primarily from Yaya, Aja Grant (of Phony Ppl) and DJ Nativesun.
Yaya Bey is one of R&B’s most exciting storytellers. Using a combination of ancestral forces and her own self-actualization, the singer/songwriter seamlessly navigates life’s hardships and joyful moments through music. Bey’s new album, ‘Remember Your North Star’ (out June 17), captures this emotional rollercoaster with a fusion of soul, jazz, reggae, afrobeat and hip-hop that feeds the soul. The artist’s knack for storytelling is best displayed in the album’s lead single, “keisha”. It’s an anthemic embodiment of fed-up women everywhere who have given their all in a relationship, yet their physical body nor spiritual mind could never be enough.
Bey’s ability to tap into the emotionally kaleidoscopic nature of women, specifically Black women, is the essence of the entire album. With themes of misogynoir, unpacking generational trauma, carefree romance, parental relationships, women empowerment and self-love, Remember Your North Star proves that the road to healing isn’t a linear one – there are many lessons to gather along the journey.