Shaboozey, the Nigerian-American musician with a pair outstanding options on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, is embracing this large launch date second and saying his personal new album, The place I’ve Been, Isn’t The place I’m Going, out Might 31.
The genre-bending rapper/singer/producer/filmmaker has been trickling out new music from the LP over the previous few months, together with “Annabelle,” “Let It Burn,” and “Vegas” (which was a Rolling Stone “Music You Must Know” earlier this month). The place I’ve Been marks Shaboozey’s third LP, following 2022’s Cowboys Reside Eternally, Outlaws By no means Die and his 2018 debut, Woman Wrangler.
Forward of the album’s launch, Shaboozey will play a handful of headlining reveals in Los Angeles, New York Metropolis, and Nashville; tickets for these gigs are on sale now. He’ll even be offering help for Jessie Murph on choose dates of her “Within the Sticks” tour.
Over the previous decade, Shaboozey’s music has included components of nation, Americana, rock, and hip-hop. This omnivorous musical strategy arguably made him an ideal match for Cowboy Carter, and he seems on two tracks: “Spaghettii” and “Candy Honey Buckin.” The truth is, “Spaghettii” even opens with pioneering nation nice Linda Martell saying, “Genres are a humorous little idea, aren’t they? In principle, they’ve a easy definition that’s simple to grasp, however in follow, nicely, some could really feel confined.”
Together with Shaboozey, Cowboy Carter encompasses a plethora of friends, together with a handful nation legends — Martell, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton — who narrate interludes all through the LP. Miley Cyrus additionally friends on “II Most Wished,” and Put up Malone appeared on “Levii’s Denims.” Different contributors embody Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Willie Jones, Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Randolph, Raphael Saadiq, and Justin Schipper.