music news RAYE signs with Human Re Sources following Polydor split + confirms new album

June 15, 2022

https://www.billboard.com/pro/raye-record-deal-album-release-human-re-sources-signing/

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Erving describes signing RAYE as “a no-brainer” for Human Re Sources, which is also home to artists including Brent Faiyaz, Cordae, YBN Nahmir, Pink Sweat$, Baby Rose and Bren Joy. “I’m a music-first person and literally, five seconds into hearing [her music] I’m like, ‘Yo, her f—ing voice is insane,'” he says. “I heard the vulnerability in the records and in her pen, and after I met her, I’m like, ‘Oh, s—, she’s a f–ing superstar.'”

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RAYE describes the forthcoming LP as a personal exorcism of sorts, tackling everything from body dysmorphia, sexual abuse, climate change and her experiences with unsavory characters in the music industry who, she says, “are hired and in high places that just shouldn’t be.”

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“My stories that I’ve collected over this seven years that I haven’t even been able to share I think are important and powerful and are going to be even tough for me to sing and perform,” she continues. “But this is medicine in its purest form. This is how I’ve been able to survive. This is my whole life out there exposed. I’m hiding nothing. I just want it to be something that people can hear.”