CANADIAN RAPPER HAVIAH MIGHTY SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘AVOCADO’ ‘STOCK EXCHANGE’ MIXTAPE COMING SOON

Today, Haviah Mighty releases a warm new single featuring Tkaronto / Toronto DJ and producer Grandtheft, ‘Avocado‘ arrives as a tune to encourage self-confidence while stepping into a new season. LISTEN HERE.

Channelling boasty energy atop bouncy, layered beats, the fruit is used as a metaphor for ‘faking it til you make it’ on ‘Avocado‘ – perceived strength on the outside, yet malleable and soft within. “Finding that true inner confidence has come with a lot of introspection over the past year. Unlike before when I appeared confident on the outside but had many insecurities, I feel my confidence is now much more rooted to my internal core,” Haviah says. “While we’re always a work in progress as humans, I feel much more stable now that I’m more comfortable with myself and what I have to offer. This is a reminder that if you’re not confident in your own strides, you’ll end up following somebody who is!”

On working together, Grandtheft reveals, “2oolman (from Halluci Nation / A Tribe Called Red) put me onto Haviah’s music and I was instantly a fan. There is this side to her as an artist that reminds me of Lauren Hill – she can rap the most lyrical verses and still sing a perfect hook. I wanted to feature this when we worked together. Haviah came to my Toronto studio to do our first session and Avocado is what we wrote! She is so versatile and has such a unique energy, it was cool to be able to create this song together on the spot.”

‘Avocado‘ is lifted from Haviah’s new mixtape, Stock Exchange, set for release this spring, following her 2019 Polaris Music Prize-winning album, 13th Floor. Last month, Haviah shared the powerful single, ‘Protest‘, featuring UK artist Yizzy. Produced by Young Dreadz, the single is a visceral recall of the feelings of guilt and stress that many marginalised individuals carry with them daily due to centuries of suffering, heaviness, pain and bloodshed at the hands of law enforcement, as emphasised through its music video directed by Chrris Lowe in partnership with Director X-led production company, Fela (Drake, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, Jay Z and more).

Haviah’s forthcoming Stock Exchange mixtape will feature collaborations with US artists Jalen Santoy (Way Too Fast) and Old Man Saxon (Antisocial) to Toronto artist TOBi (Good On My Own Tonight), with more to be announced. The title refers to a reckoning Haviah had internally over the last year, connecting with how artists are forced to validate their value based on random data (followers, subscribers) and losing a part of the authentic human-to-human universal experience of art. Get familiar with Haviah Mighty, as she continues to rise in sound and vision this year.

‘Avocado‘ is out now, buy/stream it here.