CARE 4 U

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promise a debt to you due
promise I’ll care for you too
stare down the devil
stand away from yourself
don’t understand what’s gettin into my hell
don’t understand why there’s still blood on my pen
it’s just a little bit condescending with you
just a little favor I asked you to do
if you don’t understand it, stay away from it
I fell down the stairs of plastic youth
In hell now
can’t stand myself, but envy you
promise a debt to you due
promise I’ll care for you too
my momma says that it there
my momma says that it’s strange
my granny said stay starry eyed
my daddy says that it dies
my momma said to stay alive
now we’re just trying to get through
carrying onto new air
that we’re just traveling through
but we’re so far away from it
promise a debt to you due
promise I’ll care for you too
promise a debt to you due
promise I’ll care for you too
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papa mbye writes experimental pop songs threading flourishes of electronic, R&B, soul, and more. Born in The Gambia, raised in North Minneapolis, and a relative newcomer to making music after starting as a visual artist, he’s taken strides in his sound in a short time. With his new self-produced EP, JAKAARLO, he brings his voice into focus, exercising restraint in arrangements while pushing his craft forward. Songs burst with color, texture, and hooks.
JAKAARLO is a meditation on closeness. Not just the kind shared between lovers, but the elusive kind that drifts between memory, distance, and desire. The title, which translates from Wolof as “to be close to”, is borrowed from a song by the late Senegalese musician N'dongo Lo appearing on his 2005 album Adouna. With JAKAARLO, mbye channels that sense of appreciation for the entirety of love, the real and the raw, the fleeting and finite, the spaces between people, tense, messy, and beautiful. Joined by a cast of collaborators, mbye wields layers of instrumentation and voice into vibrant, future-facing material that declares his arrival as both a visionary producer and performer.
The mood board for JAKAARLO spans the music of his youth (Youssou N'Dour, N'dongo Lo) and the boundless off-kilter pop of Jai Paul, alongside mbye’s friends and contemporaries: Minneapolis artists Young Dervish, Vlush, KINFU, and Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Gayngs, Poliça), who contributed on the album. papa mbye’s music rumbles, rattles, and darts between modes, welcoming high-wattage basslines, guitar riffs, and synth tones in a hyperactive, mesmeric mix. At the center is his emotive voice, capable of raspy croon and howling falsetto.
The strikingly smooth “CARE 4 U”, is a promise of unconditional, if imperfect, love for various people in his life. It fades out rather than pops off, offering a proper place to leave papa mbye for now, surely at the start of a promising rise.
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