R&B crooner Jarryd James has finally unveiled his highly-anticipated second record, P.M., and he’s dropped a new music video to celebrate.
P.M. arrives with a muted, gloomy new video for James’ collaborative track with 22-year old Wisconsin rapper Trapo, ‘Overdue’. The six-minute slow-burning track oozes with mystique, before reaching a climax with Trapo’s sublime verse. A deliciously satisfying album closer.
Of the track, Trapo says that he “wrote this verse fresh out of high school, so much has happened since then, and it’s times like these where I get to revise the importance of expressing yourself at a young age, Good Job Trap.”
“Overdue is my favourite track on the album,” Jarryd James adds. “The city of Los Angeles can be a strange place for an introvert from Brisbane. Keeping pretty unusual hours and not really looking after myself took its toll.”
On how the collaboration came to fruition, Jarryd adds: “We slowly started to make a piece of music while I drank some gin, and we made what I think is my favourite thing I’ve ever made. FrancisGotHeat sent back the flipped version of the beat that you hear at the end which made it perfect for a feature.
“We put the feelers out and came across Trapo, an insanely talented young rapper from Wisconsin. After one listen to his album Oil Change I knew he was the dude for it. Honestly, I thought he would do 16 bars which I would have been stoked with, but he went ahead and murdered the entire section that we sent him. Blew my mind when I heard it for the first time.”
Check out ‘Overdue’ by Jarryd James featuring Trapo:
P.M. is Jarryd James’ crowning glory. A meticulous, polished and confident follow up. It’s an album that simmers with the liminal obscurity of twilight.
James wrote the record exclusively at nighttime, enlisting the help of a carefully curated list of producers to help bring his vision to life, including Clams Casino (A$AP Rocky, Vince Staples), Malay Ho (Frank Ocean, John Legend, Alicia Keys) FrancisGotHeat (Drake, Travis Scott) and Joel Little (Khalid, Lorde). Listen to it below.
