Bartees Strange has returned with “Heavy Heart,” his debut single on 4AD.
The video features Strange paying tribute to his father and grandfather by wearing their clothes — a floral button-down and cardigan — as the track builds to a crushing guitar riff. He’s accompanied by clowns and floral arrangements as he sheds the guilt he’s felt for years, from experiencing success over the pandemic to his grandfather’s death.
“Heavy Heart” marks Strange’s first new music since his 2020 debut Live Forever, for which he became a Rolling Stone Artist You Need to Know. “A big part of why I make music is so that people who look like me can feel like they can do it, too,” he said. “I hope that when a Black kid from Yukon, Oklahoma, picks up my record, they’re like, ‘Oh, this Black guy, he doesn’t know shit about music at all, but look what he did.’”
Strange will support Car Seat Headrest on tour this month, hitting three nights at New York’s Brooklyn Steel starting March 29. He’ll head overseas in May.
NBA YoungBoy has been releasing a large amount of music this year, whether he is rebuilding his post-prison career or shutting down rap beef. His new YouTube diss track and music video, Zero IQ Freestyle, clearly falls into the latter category. Several lines either directly brush off NLE Choppa for his disses or subtly dismiss him as a fake hater. Backed by a loud, hard-hitting beat and his animated vocal delivery, the song feels extremely high-energy.
The lyrics are sharp and cutting, whether they are aimed at someone specific or not, and the track functions as a broad clap-back toward his many haters and personal frustrations. Even if YB chooses not to fully answer NLE The Great any time soon, he definitely made his bold and confrontational point with Zero IQ Freestyle.
Release Date: November 15, 2025
Genre: Hip-Hop
Album: N/A
N***a f**k with something, yеah, drop your nuts, I'll make you do the Tootsie Roll,
B***h, f**k you, you ain't really 5 and hell nah with real gang hoes,
"Respond to him," he ain't never ran nothing down, b***h, I said, "No,"
I was f***ed up and I came up, I don't care about nothing, no
