AJ Tracey has ended 2022 by promising that he’s going into “album mode” subsequent yr as a method of teasing forthcoming new music.
Throughout 2022, the London rapper has shared the only ‘Affordable’ and given followers a full launch of long-awaited freestyle ‘Seoul’. Each comply with his 2021 studio album ‘Flu Recreation’.
Now because the yr ends, the rapper has hinted {that a} third album could possibly be arriving very quickly.
Taking to Twitter yesterday (December 30), Tracey merely wrote: “album mode 2023,” including a ‘no cellphone’ emoji, hinting at taking time away from social media.
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album mode 2023 📵
— aj (@ajtracey) December 30, 2022
Elsewhere in 2022, AJ Tracey launched a brand new fund to assist Black college students finding out at Oxford College. The AJ Tracey Fund will purpose to handle “historic underrepresentation” of Black college students at Oxford, and can present college students with monetary assistances, mentorship schemes and extra.
Talking to The Guardian in regards to the new scheme, the West London rapper stated: “I believe, typically, for anybody who doesn’t perceive why Black individuals who have managed to turn into profitable wish to assist Black youngsters, it must be self-explanatory. The entire nation is catered in the direction of white individuals and we’re simply making an attempt to stage the enjoying subject by serving to Black youngsters.”
Discussing the limitations he confronted in his personal training, Tracey added: “I really imagine that I had the potential to go [to Oxford or Cambridge]. But it surely was simply understood that in the event you’re from an impoverished upbringing or ethnic background it’s very laborious to get in.
“Even in the event you’re clever, even when you recognize you will get these grades, it simply feels out of attain. Sadly, the society that we dwell in, you recognize, it doesn’t favour individuals from a background like me. It’s not a sob story, it simply is what it’s.”