Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning global music superstar MR EAZI shared new music recently along with the title for his long-awaited and highly anticipated debut solo album. New offering ‘ADVICE’, produced by Ghana’s M.O.G. Beatz, is the third single from the freshly-named The Evil Genius, set for release on October 27, 2023. The 16-track album is now available for pre-order here. Mr Eazi is also the latest artist to be featured in VEVO’s original content series Ctrl., with a stirring, defiant performance of the drill-infused ‘Advice’ out today in support of the track’s release.
Mr Eazi recorded ‘Advice’, with its dark, grimy tones, during a particularly heavy moment in his life, as he watched some of his longest-held relationships crumble under the weight of his success. Sharing his inspiration for the track, Eazi shares, “When you first come up [as an artist], everybody is in love with you, then they want to draw you down. People begin to betray you. If you’re able to survive this stage, you go untouchable. But this is the hardest stage.”
The lyrically dense ‘Advice’ also namechecks a number of African martyrs including former Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila and Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer and activist whose 1995 hanging inspired domestic and international outrage, with Mr Eazi adding, “I was coming from a place of having that energy.”
