Kojey Radical Releases His Sophomore Album, Don't Look Down

Today, East London’s own multi-hyphenate artist and rapper Kojey Radical releases his sophomore album, Don’t Look Down, via Asylum Records UK/Warner Music UK. The project boasts an impressive roster of collaborators, including Ghetts, Bawo, MNEK, Dende, James Vickery, Planet Giza, Cristale, Benjamin A.D, Col3trane, SOLOMON, Victor Ray, Jaz Karis, and Chrissi. 16 tracks long, Don’t Look Down is a musically rich and deeply introspective reflection on the shifting tides, lows, and joys that have passed through his life since his emergence into the public eye. Set among an arresting musical backdrop, brimming with soul and vivid instrumentation, is a story of loss and renewal, hedonism and celebrity, fatherhood and friendship. Sonically, the album provides the most experimental and eclectic music of his career, with influences ranging from golden age Hip Hop to disco, grime to Indie, Jazz to Ska. Together, these strings combine to give a pertinent insight into Kojey’s inner world, and a timestamp documenting the feelings, emotions, and experiences that arise when many reach the milestone of their 30s. Out of this personal, poetic rumination emerges something universal, a human story of losing your way and the journey to find yourself again. A relatable journey of reaching the milestone of your 30s without having life all the way figured out.‍

“I wanted to make this album more personal and more honest, we have to be able to accept that the messenger has flaws and all,” says Kojey. “So if I can’t give you me from a real perspective, as someone who hasn’t got it quite all the way figured out, then how are you supposed to trust me?”

For Kojey, Don’t Look Down captures the last few years of scaling professional and musical heights, and how that climb reshapes a person’s outlook and relationships. Success brings both the fear of falling and the fear of climbing higher, knowing how much there is to lose. Rooted in the shift that followed the enormous success of Reason to Smile (2022), the album reflects the transition into one’s 30s, when old anchors slip away and life reshapes itself, forcing you to find solid ground again. This tension threads through the record. On “Rotation” and “Life of the Party”, he wrestles with internal doubts: I live in fear of starting again and again... I don't know who to trust / I got too many friends, being the life of the party,” he sings over Swindle, Ashton Sellars, and Emil’s production. “Conversation” deepens this theme, opening with a whisper: “Sometimes you’re too afraid to find out the party continues even after you leave.” He likens it to stepping out for air only to realize the sun is rising and the world has moved on, relationships too. Fatherhood emerges as one of the album’s most defining threads. On “Life of the Party” he reflects, "My little one just turned four, he looks just like me / His mama pray he doesn't grow up just like me.” အပေါ် “Curtains” အပေါ်, သူမသိ, “I hate that I hold onto trauma, twinning with the traits that I got from my father.” His son’s voice surfaces in recordings throughout, and the closing track “Baby Boy” with fellow East Londoner Ghetts brings the theme to a powerful close. Across four and a half minutes, he shares the joys and anxieties of fatherhood, hopes for his son, and reflections on the history that shapes their bond.

To accompany Don’t Look Down, Kojey ကနေအိမ်အချိန်အတွေ့အကြုံများနှင့်အတူအသုံးပြုခဲ့ကြသည့်အချိန်အတွေ့အကြုံများနှင့်အတူရုပ်ရှင်အသုံးပြုခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါပစ္စည်းက Bawo, Conversation နှင့် Baby Boy နှင့်အတူရုပ်ရှင်ဗီဒီယိုများ၏နောက်ဆုံးရုပ်ရှင်အသုံးပြုခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါအိမ်အိမ်အတွေ့အကြုံများ၏နောက်ဆုံးရုပ်ရှင်အသုံးပြုခဲ့သည့်အခါ “Expensive” နှင့် “Everyday” နှင့်အတူနောက်ဆုံးရုပ်ရှင်အသုံးပြုခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါအိမ်အတွေ့အကြုံတွေ့အကြုံတွေ့အကြုံတွေ့အကြုံနှင့်အတူအလွန်

Don't Look Down Tracklist:

1. Knock Knock
2. Rotation
3. Rule One ft Bawo
4. Drinking my water ft Mnek
5. Long Day ft Dende
6. အပေါ် Call ft James Vickery
7. Expensive ft Planet Giza
8. Problems ft Cristale
9. Conversation
10. Communication ft Benjamin A.D
Life of the party
12. Breathe ft Col3trane
13. Curtains ft Solomon- Victor Ray Outro
14. Comfortable ft Jaz Karis
15. Everyday
16. Baby ft Ghetts & Chrissi

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