Kehlani Shares Cover & Release Date For ‘While We Wait 2’ Mixtape
Kehlani has not taken her foot off the fuel all 12 months, and after dropping a brand new album only a few months in the past, she’s now gearing as much as drop a mixtape.
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday (August 21), the Oakland native revealed While We Wait 2 – the sequel to 2019’s While We Wait – will probably be dropping on August 28.
She additionally shared the duvet artwork, which includes a very conscious, very demure Lani amid a backdrop that shares the identical sample as the unique tape.
Check out the duvet under.
Kehlani first hinted on the tape final month by posting a photograph of a journal to her Instagram Story with “While We Wait 2” written on the web page.
Just two months in the past in June, the singer’s launched her fourth studio album, Crash. It follows 2022’s Blue Water Road, which featured appearances from Blxst, Justin Bieber, Syd, Jessie Reyez, Ambré and Thundercat. The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, incomes 22,000 album-equivalent items in its first week.
Before that, Kehlani hinted at doing a collaborative album with Russ.
In footage shared by HipHop-N-More in 2021, the 2 had been noticed at a membership planning for a potential LP.
“I just told Russ I would make an album with him in the club,” Lani stated within the clip. “Listen, hold her accountable, because I doubt it,” Russ responded.
After HHNM shared the clip, it surfaced on X (previously referred to as Twitter). Russ responded to the tweet in a since-deleted publish writing, “Russ x Kehlani project” adopted by pair of eyes emojis.
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And whereas nothing got here of it, it wasn’t the primary time a undertaking from the pair was floated round.
Back in 2020, Russ had already contemplated a possible joint effort with Kehlani however his imaginative and prescient featured extra gamers than her. After releasing his CHOMP EP in November 2020, he spoke with Ebro Darden on Beats 1 and detailed why an R&B follow-up can be the appropriate transfer after strictly rapping on CHOMP.
“I might have to come with five songs and it’s me and Keyshia Cole, and Kehlani, and Ari Lennox, and there’s not an ounce of rap on it,” Russ advised Ebro. “And you put that right next to CHOMP and it’s like, enjoy.”
