Kaytranada & Aminé teams up on the “KAYTRAMINÉ” album.
After giving us the first taste with “4EVA” featuring Pharrell last month, Kaytranada & Aminé join forces for their new collab album “KAYTRAMINÉ”. The Ethiopian-American rapper posted a screenshot on his social media of his chat with Kaytranada back in 2014 when he reached out to the producer and showed the desire to work in future.
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— Aminé (@heyamine) May 16, 2023
The new joint album comes with 11 tracks. with additional guest appearances from Freddie Gibbs on “letstalkaboutit”, Big Sean on “Master P”, Amaarae on “Sossaup”, and Snoop Dogg on “Eye”.
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“I was broke as f**k working on music everyday in 2014 looking for a north star. i was kinda thinking about giving up cuz shI* wasnt really workin out for me then kay hit me back & sent me beats for free.. that put a extra battery in my back & really made me feel confident again,” Aminé tweeted earlier this week. “Who tf know where i’d be right now without that little push from kay that early in my career. the love you show people sometimes can really affect them in ways you couldn’t imagine. kaytraminé ain’t no industry play, this been 9 years in the making.”
“It was a beautiful place, but we were locked in, working every day,” Kaytranada told WMagazine about renting a place in Malibu, California in 2021 to work together. “We threw a huge rager after cranking out tons of songs,” Amine revealed. “We played some of them without telling people what they were. It felt like there was no bias—people were just nodding their heads and dancing to sh*t that they had no judgment about.”
“It has some of the best Kay beats that he’s ever made, and some of the best singing and rapping I’ve ever done,” Amine added. “It really leveled up my artistic capabilities.”
Stream the full thing below.
