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Legendary woman emcee and songwriter Rapsody, born Marlanna Evans, has announced her first album in nearly 4 years. Titled Please Don’t Cry”, the forthcoming LP releases this May and is set to feature guest verse by another legendary rapper and R&B singer Erykah Badu, Lil Wayne, Amber Navran, Phylicia Rashad, Bibi Bourelly, “Magic 3” record producer Hit-Boy & more.
Traversing various flagrant rap records, “Please Don’t Cry” will be home to provocative songtitles including “DND (It’s Not Personal)”, “3:AM”, “Back in My Bag”, “A Ballad for Homegirls”, “Black Popstar” and more.
Reportedly, “Please Don’t Cry” is set to release on May 17th. The “Complexion (A Zulu Love)” emcee further shared a heartfelt message with her fans alongside the major announcement.
“The last four years have been a beautiful, challenging, exciting, scary, journey back to self,” Rapsody wrote via Instagram. “A becoming. A reintroduction. An unveiling. An unlearning. A knowing. An unplugging. A welcome home. A reality check. A love story with the reflection in the mirror. And I love her,” she wrote further.
Check out the exclusive “Please Don’t Cry” artwork and tracklist shared by Rapsody below.
Further, Rapsody remembered legendary African-American entrepreneur and slain emcee Nipsey Hussle and shared that her forthcoming LP will be released via the “All Money In” rapper’s ‘Proud 2 Pay’ model.
In October 2013, Hussle sold his 8th mixtape “Crenshaw” for $100 each and urged his ardent fans to support a more robust and sustainable distribution model for African American artists which cuts the “middlemen”.
Who gives a fucc what a hater gotta say…I made a hunnit k today of my album throw away's. #CRENSHAW #Proud2pay #FUCCTHEMIDDLEMAN
— THA GREAT (@NipseyHussle) October 8, 2013
“Nipsey created legacy in so many ways. When I sat to think about this season of art and the valuation of it in the music business, his 2013 #Proud2Pay campaign came to mind. It affirmed that our art is genius, rare, and valuable to our super fans that see and feel it in a deeper way. “Always by choice, never by force”, in the words of Hussle,” Rapsody wrote while giving Hussle his flowers.
“Some look at a Basquiat and see rudimentary drawings, others see a multimillion-dollar piece of genius on canvas. It’s in the eyes and ears of the beholder that makes them #Proud2Pay. And I think it’s so exciting to see this model adapted by new platforms in this era,” Rapsody wrote further.
Most recently, Hussle was featured posthumously on “Vultures” LP by Chicago’s notorious emcee & record producer Kanye West and “The Definition of Success” LP by J. Stone.
Look out for Rapsody’s 4th studio album “Please Don’t Cry” this summer.
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