Key Takeaways:

• The six-track EP features a standout collaboration with Mariah The Scientist.
• The undertaking continues Fridayy’s emotional R&B model, mixing non secular themes with genre-bending manufacturing.
• Fridayy addressed feeling neglected in R&B forward of the EP’s launch.

Fridayy is after the credit score he is owed in R&B. On Friday (Dec. 12), the Grammy-nominated singer shared his newest undertaking, Everybody Got Somebody, through Def Jam Recordings.

Arriving a number of months after his sophomore album, Some Days I’m Good, Some Days I’m Not, the six-song EP builds on Fridayy’s repute for genre-defying R&B. On the ‘80s-inspired opener, “Taboo,” he questions, “Who out their right mind would let you out the house alone? / It don’t make no difference, babe, if they left your pretty a** at home.”

From there, it segues into August’s “Below Zero,” the place Fridayy sings about “feeling numb after giving so much of yourself to people and situations that don’t value you.” Fans obtained the standout reduce forward of the singer’s European tour, making it presumably his finest send-off to summer time.

For some listeners, the centerpiece of the EP shall be Fridayy’s collaboration with Mariah The Scientist on “Death Do Us Part.” Together, they transfer by way of the push and pull between love and temptation, with the Atlanta singer delivering strains like, “They all told me this won’t last / To let you go, to leave you in the past / But every time, I’m out the door / Then somethin’ pulls me back.”

Elsewhere, the undertaking is rounded out by the reggae-leaning “Won’t Keep You Waiting” and the guitar-led “Stallin.” Take a hearken to Everybody Got Somebody beneath.

A number of days earlier than the EP dropped, Fridayy spoke about feeling overlooked in R&B conversations, particularly after incomes a Grammy nomination for Best Melodic Rap Performance.

“I feel like a lot of people from the outside looking in don’t know where to place me, but my fans know I really do this singing s**t and R&B [is] one of my first true loves,” he mentioned. “I be seeing a lot of these lists — no disrespect — I just be feeling like I’m left out the chat, you know what I’m saying?”