Toying with dark sensualness, the first half of the song, “Playboy” starts with a dissonant melody with Shygirl cooling rapping over the top. In the video, a bikini-clad woman spins around a pole in a dark room an eerie face-printed mask obscuring her face. Shy introduces the second half of the song by uttering, “Wait let me just change positions quickly”, the beat quickening with the singer adopting a breathier vocal style. The video for the “Positions” portion features two tattooed men wrestling on a dry grassy football pitch.

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Irish singer Cosha, English record producer Karma Kid, and English producer to the stars Mura Masa all worked with the singer on the single. London-based photographer Samuel Ibram teamed up with Shygirl once again for the haunting video. He previously directed the video for Shygirl and Björk’s “Woe (I See It From Your Side)” as well as photographed Shy for the cover for Nymph.

Nymph_o, the deluxe version of Shygirl’s 2022 debut album, Nymph, will be available on streaming on the 14^th of this month. The album will contain reimagines and remixes of songs on the original LP as well as some brand-new tracks like “Playboy/Positions”. So far, Shygirl has released three other songs that will feature on Nymph_o: a club mix of “Poison”, a reimagining of “Heaven” featuring the celestial vocals of alt R&B singer Tinashe, and Björk’s ethereal remix “Woe (I See It From Your Side)”. The genre-bending LP will also feature Eartheater and Arca. To preorder the album click here.

Southeast London rapper, DJ, and singer-songwriter Blane Muise, better known as Shygirl, entered the scene in 2017 receiving praise for her unique deconstructed club and experimental hip hop sound. Her debut EP Cruel Practice and her sophomore EP Alias caught the attention of Pitchfork, NME, Vogue, and Crack Magazine.

Currently, Shygirl is performing in North America on her Nymph World Tour. She will be performing at several festivals later this summer including Wide Awake Festival, Parklife, Flow Festival, and Øyafestivalen. For tickets see here.

For Shygirl’s UK & Europe dates see below:

27/05/23 – Wide Awake Festival – London
10/06 – Parklife – Manchester
09/08 – Øyafestivalen – Oslo
11/08 – Flow Festival – Helsinki

The DJ from Lewisham, South East London took to Instagram to release the announcement trailer for his new show.

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 The UK rap scene has been able to get in a position where it is able to be self-sufficient, with no reliance on labels and advertisement. Allstar announced on Twitter that his new show will be completely independent of brands or labels.

So I’ve finally set up my own YouTube channel which has been long overdue I know but it’s not easy stepping out. All platforms on my channel is being run independently. No funding, No Distribution deals etc… 100% owned and run by me. — Kenny Allstar (@KennyAllstar) May 19, 2021

Kenny started as an 18-year-old DJ on Deja Vu 92.3 FM, before moving on to Radar radio and now BBC 1xtra, the self-proclaimed ‘Voice of the streets’ has always championed UK rap having had various freestyle platforms on both Radar radio and BBC 1xtra, artists such as M1llionz, Headie one and Potter Payper have all appeared on his BBC 1xtra Voice of the streets show.

Away from radio Kenny Allstar was the face of the largest UK freestyle platform on Youtube, working with Mixtape Madness to create Mad about bars. A platform created to allow upcoming rappers to showcase their talent to an audience of 1.1 million subscribers, the segment has run for 3 seasons and gained well over 100 million views. The show gave some of the UK’s biggest rappers the opportunity to showcase their talents, Unknown T, DigDat and M Huncho all appeared on Mad about bars at the beginning of their careers, M Hunchos appearance on the platform in 2017 was one of the first times the artist had been heard and was well received with just over 22 million views.

The DJ whose 2018 album ‘Block Diaries’ solely featured UK artists is pushing the UK scene harder than anyone else and the announcement of ‘The Generals corner’ will only excite his fans as they prepare for Freestyles from some of the most talented and upcoming rappers in the UK.