Ahead of his sophomore album’s release, now out everywhere, Fridayy stopped by Audacy New York’s 94.7 The Block to chat Jen from BK, all about the project, his 2022 feature on DJ Khalid’s stacked song “GOD DID,” and reminisce about his first mixtape Lost In Melody, plus more.
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Sharing how he got on Khalid’s title track of his 2022 album, which in addition to Fridayy boasts features from Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z, and John Legend, the singer revealed, “I was songwriting before I was an artist, so, at that time I probably had like 4,000 followers… just a songwriter, trying to get people to sing my hooks, you know. I wrote for Chris Brown, probably like 2 months before ‘GOD DID,’ and I was just on Instagram and Khalid kept saying ‘God Did’ and it was touching my heart. So I made a hook… and once I made that, I called my team… sent it to Khaled and Khaled responded like, 'this going on an album.'”
All this occurring being Fridayy even dropped his first mixtape, his appearance on Khalid’s song changed everything. “That's my first introduction to the game,” Fridayy noted. "I probably had like 100 monthly listeners, then the next day I had like 7 or 8 million. I was like, ‘Oh, I got the world watching me. Now it's time to show them who I am. Let's introduce me… and that’s when I dropped Lost In Melody.”
Following his 2023 self-titled first album, Fridayy’s latest release Some Days I'm Good, Some Days I'm Not, is an ambitious double-disc.
“I'm one of the only people that could do it though,” Fridayy not so humbly noted about double offering. “My fan base, there’s a lot of people that love me like for different reasons, and both at the same time. Like I got a strong R&B fan base, then I got a strong Afro-beats fan base, and I got a strong 3AM fan base… So I know they're gonna listen to every song, but I'm a very versatile artist.”
He continued, “When it come to my albums, it's kind of hard to put it together because it's like it could be a Pop song in there, it could be like an Afro-beat, it could be a Haitian song, R&B, so it's hard structuring it.” Which is how Fridayy landed on doing two discs. “The first half is like more of like — we outside… vibes… feel good and the second half is like that music l that you could triumph with, like get through your day with. So I feel like however you feel in that day, you just pick a side.”
For all that and so much more, listen to Fridayy’s entire interview above.