Summer season is shortly approaching, and Jamaican pop sensation Shenseea is right here to ship the soundtrack to the warmest months of 2024. Forward of the discharge of her sophomore studio album, By no means Will get Late Right here (out Could 24), Shenseea stopped by Billboard Information to replicate on how she’s approached collaborating with different artists all through her profession.
“It helps me to recover from my nerves,” she muses. “I really feel like artists [are] simply intimidated by others’ success. To not be badminded, not like that vibe, extra of like, ‘Whoa, that is the stress to have when anyone who’s this profitable within the trade [is here.] What do I deliver to the desk?’”
Alpha, Shenseea’s debut studio LP, boasted collaborations with a slew of chart-topping artists, together with 21 Savage, Beenie Man, Megan Thee Stallion, Offset, Sean Paul and Tyga. That set peaked at No. 2 on Prime Reggae Albums and at No. 3 on Heatseekers Albums. Previous to Alpha, Shenseea started her crossover endeavors by throwing assists to American artists comparable to Masego, Christina Aguilera and Kanye “Ye” West.
“You’ll by no means know till you do it,” she says. “Doing it over time and taking up the problem time and again and simply attempting to be myself, it helps that there’s nothing I can’t tackle.”
Later in her dialog with Billboard Information — which additionally traced the creation of her new LP, how she realized to harmonize and a few of her earliest musical reminiscences — Shenseea expounded on her profession shifting link-up with Ye. The 2 artists joined forces alongside Roddy Ricch on “Pure Souls,” a monitor from the “All the Lights” rapper’s Billboard 200-topping Donda album, which earned all three artists nominations for album of the yr on the 2022 Grammys.
“One of many moments I knew issues modified was once I did the collaboration with Kanye,” Shenseea gushes. “I felt like that opened a complete completely different kind of doorways — style, hip-hop, completely different artists simply reaching out. I believe that Kanye is cool, as a lot as how he’s inventive, he’s a cool individual to have a look at. All the time entertaining. I really feel like me being related to him, it has led me to a number of open doorways.”
Forward of its full launch later this month, Shenseea has delivered a number of tastes of By no means Will get Late Right here. On Tuesday (April 30), she unveiled the LP’s full tracklist, revealing forthcoming collaborations with Coi Leray, Anitta and Wizkid. The set’s lead single, “Hit & Run” (with Masicka and Di Genius), has amassed practically 40 million views on YouTube for its official music video.
Watch Shenseea’s full Billboard Information interview above.
