James Blake and Lil Yachty’s new collaborative album, Bad Cameo, has arrived.
A product of both artists’ admiration for the other, Bad Cameo sees Blake and Yachty lean into each other’s strengths to break new ground. The two first connected when Yacthy reached out to Blake in 2020 with praise for his album Assume Form, and they soon began working together, sharing an interest in innovative, ambient sounds.
Speaking about their collaboration in a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Yachty explained that Blake inspired him to “do better,” saying, “just being around and experiencing him work pushed me to try to have reason in my songwriting and to just live up to the quality of James’ catalog.”
Blake, for his part, revealed that he had mostly written off collaborations prior to working with Yachty, saying, “there’s a certain point in your career where you’re like, ‘Well, I don’t have to do this…’ Now I’m like, ‘How can I preserve my space? How can I only have fun?’ And we just, I mean, our sessions are 99% unserious.”
Stream Bad Cameo in its entirety below via Apple Music or Spotify.
Bad Cameo is Blake’s first full-length release since last September’s Playing Robots into Heaven, and Yachty’s since last January’s Let’s Start Here.
Meanwhile, both artists have live dates coming up. Blake has a pair of Italian shows in July, and sets at festivals Bumbershoot and Beautiful Block Party. As for Yachty, he has a number of headlining shows coming up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, and more. Get James Blake tickets here and Lil Yachty tickets here.
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Bad Cameo Tracklist:
01. Save The Savior
02. In Grey
03. Midnight
04. Woo
05. Bad Cameo
06. Missing Man
07. Twice
08. Transport Me
09. Run Away From The Rabbit
10. Red Carpet