Title: Do It Afraid Artist: Yaya Bey Label: Drink Sum WTR Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 617308097221 Genre: Soul/R & B Release Date: 2025-08-15 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: Explicit Lyrics
"Suffering is promised to us all, but so is joy. You have to find peace in that duality," says Yaya Bey, who commits to life's delight - humor, love, the power of human movement and connection - even if she has to do it afraid. With her new album, which follows a run of critically acclaimed releases and marks her debut on art-forward indie label drink sum wtr, the Queens, New York singer-songwriter thrives across uplifting, effervescent material. A rejection of past narratives projected onto her, 'do it afraid' finds Bey reclaiming her story with resolutely fun, full-hearted, and nuanced songs that pull from R&B, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and dance music, including the soca stylings of her family's Bajan roots. Do it afraid celebrates all sides of Yaya as part of a collective lifeforce that doesn't subscribe to fear but to the moments that move us.
Tracks: 1.1 wake up b*tch 1.2 end of the world 1.3 real yearners unite 1.4 cindy rella 1.5 raisins 1.6 spin cycle 1.7 dream girl 1.8 merlot and grigio 1.9 breakthrough 1.10 a surrender 1.11 in a circle 1.12 aye noche 1.13 no for real, wtf? 1.14 blicky 1.15 ask the questions 1.16 bella noches pt. 1 1.17 a tiny thing that’s mine 1.18 choice
