Russ and Ed Sheeran drop “Are You Entertained”.
Following the release of “Paddington Freestyle” earlier this month, Russ is back with another new effort. This time, the Independent hitmaker teams up with Ed Sheeran for a huge collaboration called “Are You Entertained”. “I’m independently putting out a song with Ed Sheeran…levels,” he wrote.
“Every time, every night is a loose one / And every flight, you know that I put the crew on / You say that I dropped off, well then tell me what you’ve done? / I’m still in my winning phase, yeah, I been away / Are you entertained? I’m gone,” Sheeran sings on the Chorus.
“I’m so grateful for this moment,” wrote Russ. “I walked up to Ed at a restaurant (Carbone) and assumed he didn’t know who I was. Just wanted to introduce myself and say what’s up. Next thing I know I’m eating pasta and drinking wine at his table talkin bout everything. Fast forward and we had this song and we wanted to shoot a video to it so he introduced me to Jamal Edwards, a brilliant visionary and special soul who wrote the treatment for the video. We went back and forth on ideas and we were all super excited. The day before we were supposed to fly out to London we got the tragic news that Jamal had passed away. I had never met Jamal other than those emails but I can tell he was a special person. The way Ed, Jamal’s mother Brenda, his sister Tanisha, the director Jake Nava, the producer Ali and everyone else who worked on this rallied together and still wanted to make Jamal’s vision come to life, showed the impact he had. All I wanted to do was make sure I did my part in facilitating making his exact treatment come to life. I’m just beyond grateful that all of y’all let me be apart of something so special. Special thank you to everyone who made this happen and thank you to Brenda Edwards for being such a warrior of love and light. RIP Jamal Edwards.”
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