Rising North London Artist Natty Wylah Releases Sublime Jorja Smith Sampling New Single ‘Feel U’

by the partae January 22, 2020

written by the partae January 22, 2020

Rising North London Artist Natty Wylah Releases Sublime Jorja Smith Sampling New Single 'Feel U'

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Praise for Natty Wylah’s previous single ‘WHOAMI’

“ ‘WHOAMI’ rattles with dark beats and claustrophobic drum patterns, his rhetorical question pulsating throughout the single’s murky grooves.”- Line of Best Fit
“With a voice that engaging and an unquenchable fire in his belly, expect to hear a lot more from Natty Wylah in the future.”– Trench
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“Although the track sounds like it coming from a place of anger, it bristles with clarity”- Surviving The Golden Age

Greeting 2020 with a burst of inspiration, Natty Wylah is pleased to release new single ‘Feel U’ (produced by dylantheinfamous), another injection of lyrical dexterity from the North-London artist. It follows the release of his 2019 widely-praised 2019 single ‘WHOAMI’ [listen]. Where ‘WHOAMI’ was bristling and intense, ‘Feel U’ is a burst of warmth through the frigid winter air.

“its funny it’s sunny outside
but I just feel like sitting indoors”

The track finds Natty ruminating on love and life over a flipped Jorja Smith sample taken from her UK garage leaning cut ‘On My Mind’. The sample is altered to a more melancholic quality than the original, adding to Natty’s stream of conscious raps on the track.

On the track, Natty says, “feel u is written from a hungover hole with a faint ray of light shining through contemplation. Through a haze of flings and things – needing something deeper: the light expands throughout the song culminating in a new day, telling them they can hate if they like “‘they’re just wasting their own time.’”.

In late 2019 Natty introduced himself with the impactful single ‘WHOAMI’, a song that was a fightback against the racial stereotypes, prejudice and misinformation he has experienced growing up as a mixed-race person in London. After building himself up in 2019, 2020 is set to be a big year for Natty Wylah, the release of ‘Feel U’ is just the beginning.