Tyler, the Creator has released a short new song, “Lumberjack,” along with an accompanying video, which he directed under his Wolf Haley alias.
The track — which clocks in at just over a minute — opens with a lazy spoken-word bit that finds Tyler talking about plans for a snowy weekend in Utah over woozy synths. “Lumberjack” transforms when the drums kick in, and Tyler proceeds to peel off punchlines like, “Rolls Royce pull up, black boy hop out/Shout out to my mother and my father, didn’t pull out.”
The “Lumberjack” video is classic Tyler as well: A series of surreal vignettes as he reads old car magazines in bed, raps on top of a stack of suitcases, gets his nails done, and finds himself trapped in a blizzard.
“Lumberjack” marks Tyler’s second release of the year, following “Tell Me How,” which officially arrived in March, but appeared first in a Coca-Cola commercial released a month prior. At the time, “Tell Me How” marked his first proper solo release since 2019, although in the interim he collaborated with Westside Gunn, Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist, Lil Yachty, and Brent Faiyaz
Tyler, the Creator’s most recent album, the Grammy-winning Igor, was released in 2019. At the end of that year, he dropped a pair of loose singles, “Best Interest” and “Group B.”
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Don't look now, but R&B/soul sensation GIVEON is making a comeback, and it looks like he's ready to regain his position in the space. He's doing so with a tweaked formula, tapping into his vintage soul bag. The Long Beach, California native is also pouring his heart out in the process on a song called "RATHER BE."
It's his second single released this year, with "TWENTIES" being the predecessor. Both will almost certainly be on GIVEON's next title, which has to be formally announced.
"RATHER BE," produced by an all-star squad of Sevn Thomas, Jahaan Sweet, Matthew Burnett, Maneesh Bidaye, and Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, finds the 30-year-old yearning for an old flame.
He's unashamedly calling for her to reenter his life as he expresses how she was truly made for him. "Rather be a fool than believe in someone new / I'd rather be with you / Than the other half of someone who’s not even half of you," GIVEON sings explosively on the chorus.
According to an IG post, "RATHER BE" is just "another piece of this beautiful story i have to tell ⌛️." Both singles have us extremely intrigued about what seems to an emotional rollercoaster.
Hopefully, GIVEON decides to end this album drought sooner than later. It's been nearly three years since his last studio effort Give Or Take. Check out "RATHER BE" below.
Quotable Lyrics:
Wishin' you would settle down or come around
I've been dancin' to all the songs that you love all alone
Lost in the dark
'Cause you stole the sun, oh-oh
Oh, tears are formin'
When I see your face in my phonе, I can't erase the mеmory
