Blacklight a fost lansat în data de 19 noiembrie 2021, prin Mello Music Group.
Citat de pe https://apollobrown360.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight:
The road from the projects to private jets is long and treacherous,
often marked by sweat and bloodshed. A blacklight might reveal those
stains, but it couldn’t tell their story. Stalley illuminates the truth
behind every mark on Blacklight, the Ohio legend’s collaborative album
with prolific Michigan producer Apollo Brown. The Midwest meeting of
supreme lyrical talent and producorial mastery results in one of the
most powerful and emotionally raw albums of Stalley’s career. He offers
diaries of hood traumas and their lingering effects, formulas for
overcoming systemic poverty and societal prejudice, and instructions on
how to thrive as an independent artist. Brown scores every bar with
soulful and melancholy beats that sound like sunlight cracking through
concrete skies.
Blacklight leaves no stretch of Stalley’s journey unaccounted for. He vacillates between attaining higher consciousness and the drive to acquire everything he was deprived of in youth, bringing you to hot corners on Massillon, Ohio blocks (“No Monsters”) and explaining the grind necessary to win in the face of jealous foes and friends secretly plotting your demise (“Blacklight”). There are songs of supreme confidence full of candy-painted rides sitting on chrome (“Catch Up”), but Stalley tempers them by revealing the moments of insecurity that plague even the greatest artists (“Breathe”). Revered lyricists Skyzoo and Joell Ortiz and Power star Omari Hardwick feature to reveal pieces of their respective odysseys, their words reinforcing the core of Blacklight. In telling his story, Stalley sheds light on the lives of everyone hustling in the trenches in hopes of making it to the penthouse.
Blacklight leaves no stretch of Stalley’s journey unaccounted for. He vacillates between attaining higher consciousness and the drive to acquire everything he was deprived of in youth, bringing you to hot corners on Massillon, Ohio blocks (“No Monsters”) and explaining the grind necessary to win in the face of jealous foes and friends secretly plotting your demise (“Blacklight”). There are songs of supreme confidence full of candy-painted rides sitting on chrome (“Catch Up”), but Stalley tempers them by revealing the moments of insecurity that plague even the greatest artists (“Breathe”). Revered lyricists Skyzoo and Joell Ortiz and Power star Omari Hardwick feature to reveal pieces of their respective odysseys, their words reinforcing the core of Blacklight. In telling his story, Stalley sheds light on the lives of everyone hustling in the trenches in hopes of making it to the penthouse.
Vocals: Stalley
Music Production: Apollo Brown
Guest Vocals: Skyzoo, Joell Ortiz, Omari Hardwick
Photography: Jeremy Deputat
Cover Art: Chris Murray
Label Art Director: Austin Hart
Mastering: Joe Hutchinson
Vocal Mix Engineer: Henry D’Ambrosio
Mix Engineer: Matt Oleksiak
Executive Producer: Michael Tolle
Record Label: Mello Music Group
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Hidden
01:07
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Blacklight
03:51
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We Outside
03:55
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Humble Wins
04:02
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Breathe
03:36
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Lost Angels
03:44
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Catch Up
03:24
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The Realest
04:03
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Broad Spectrum
02:46
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Stay Low
04:24
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What The Hook Gon Be
03:36
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