LELO ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM NEW DETROIT COMING SOON
Following his high-profile link-up with Babyface Ray for “On The Wall”, Lelo has just announced that his long-awaited debut album New Detroit will arrive soon via 10K Projects. The announcement is accompanied by new single “Perfect Blue”, a melodic track that finds the rapper floating the song’s playful, infectious hook (“I don’t think it’s love/But I like what she do to me”) across a skittering hi-hat pattern and subwoofer-ready 808s. In addition to Lelo recently surpassing 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify without a feature or official album out, the song arrives on the heels of “2hollis”, the Tony Seltzer-produced “Pot Of Greed”, “Kudos”, and “A&G”, as well as his Sade-sampling single “Main Event”, which earned him a co-sign from Earl Sweatshirt. The track alsofollows his performance at Underground Sound‘s SXSW Floating World Fest alongside xaviersobased and Nino Paid, a recent co-sign from Pi’erre Bourne, and a string of releases, including breakthrough anthem “No contempt” (25M+ Streams) and his December EP When It’s Over. It’s all culminating with the forthcoming release of his debut album, a project named in honor of the New Detroit movement he’s proudly leading — and a passing of the torch moment for a new generation of Motor City hip-hop.
After turning heads in the Detroit regional scene with singles like “Hughes” (2M+ Streams) and “Daybreakers”, Lelo released his long-anticipated debut project Nightingale last spring and has since garnered attention for standalone releases like “No contempt”, “Limbless” (6M+ Streams), and “Yoppenheimer” (5M+ Streams), as well as his four-track EP LifeAfterDogShit. Recent months have also seen him play to a sold-out crowd at Bktherula, skaiwater, and Yhapojj‘s Detroit tour stop, perform with Che at Zicmade’s NYFW after party, and earn co-signs from the likes of LUCKI and Brent Faiyaz.
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