To mark Sail Out‘s arrival, Aiko has also shared a shared an elegantly bleary-eyed video for “The Worst,” which you can watch over at Noisey. As Aiko near-whispers, “What a life we’d die to live in,” her voice gets pitched down to an eerie moan, extending the song’s final seconds while echoing the lyrical sentiment that “everything sweet ain’t sugarcoated.” Stay Ready (What A Life) Aiko, Jhene Lyrics and Stay Ready (What A Life) Aiko, Jhene Lyrics from all Stay Ready (What A Life) Aiko. It’s Aiko’s moment, and this six-minute EP opener basks in it, moving from a sensual seduction with K.dot to a more enigmatic second half. Kelela’s recent Cut 4 Me mixtape was one crucial salvo, and Sail Out arrives the same day as Solange’s Aiko- and Kelela-featuring Saint Heron compilation. Subscribe for new songs weeklyMake sure youve heard the latest and greatest firstTell your friends100 original, never sped up or changed to avoid youtube. ahh-ee-ko”) turned heads with 2011’s excellent Sailing Soul(s) mixtape, and she has a string of impressive guest appearances spanning from a Kendrick Lamar track way back in 2010 and a ScHoolBoy Q song a year later to her more recent work with Big Sean and Drake - she’s even on Drizzy’s current tour.īut Aiko’s official debut also arrives at a time when arty female R&B singers are particularly making themselves heard.
The single Stay Ready (What A Life) is another rap-assisted track with Kendrick Lamar stepping up to the plate and delivering some bars over a chilled. Kendrick Lamar) Following the release of her Bed Peace single and video, LA singer/songwriter Jhen Aiko drops a new gem this Monday. Listen in below (via Fashionably Early).“There’s no place quite like here, there’s no better time than now,” sings Jhené Aiko in the sinuous hook from “Stay Ready (What a Life).” On this Kendrick Lamar collaboration from the Los Angeles-based singer’s EP Sail Out, out today via iTunes, the context is libidinous, but the context is also, well, the context. Kendrick Lamar) Stay Ready (What A Life) (feat. Though Lamar’s penchant for the romantic is abundant by now, the up-and-down slide of his cadence and smooth come-ons (“But if I stay monogamous promise this kiss will always taste like candy”) are charged with a new kind of sexual energy.
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