Sexyy Red: The new 'Shake Yo Dreads' song deserves ample repeats
Is there anyone glowing up bigger than Sexyy Red right now? The Missouri rap heavyweight is doing everything from delivering fire collaborations to putting out her own hard-hitting tunes like the new ‘Shake Yo Dreads’ single to the masses.
Sexyy Red delivers her ‘Shake Yo Dreads’
Going the solo route, Sexyy lets her own vocals shine the brightest on her latest, toughest-sounding tune. Hard bars and a fire beat? What more do you want from her? A music video, fingers crossed.
Continuing her rise with unmatched confidence and intensity, Sexyy Red shares her fiery new single, "Shake Yo Dreads." Blessed with booming trap percussion and a foreboding flurry of bells, "Shake Yo Dreads" is an adrenaline rush of a track, perfect for locker room pump-ups and celebrations of victory, providing the extra boost listeners need to go hard all fall – STREAM HERE.
"Hellcats SRTs 2" arrives following the Lil Durk-featuring "Hellcats SRTs 2" as Sexyy's first new singles following her #SexyySummer, during which the St. Louis native established herself as the most talked-about and acclaimed rising star in hip-hop. Sexyy's breakout hit, the Tay Keith-produced "Pound Town," has spent multiple weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reached the Top 10 on Urban Radio, and its Nicki Minaj-featuring remix "Pound Town 2," earned a GOLD certification from the RIAA. Together, all versions of "Pound Town" have racked up over 69 million global streams.
Sexyy's follow-up hit, "SkeeYee," has risen even further, generating over 50 million streams across platforms, and reaching a new peak of #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #37 on Apple Music's All-Genre Charts. "SkeeYee" earned a recent boost from its appearance in HBO's Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The New York Jets, prompting a viral video of several of the team's star players dancing to the song. Sexyy Red visited her new favorite team in person for their season debut on ESPN's Monday Night Football, leading the team to an improbable victory and earning mention in GQ, Vulture, Complex, and more.
A relentless barrage of twerkable anthems, Hood's Hottest Princess builds upon Sexyy's brash and unapologetic persona. Songs like "Hellcats SRTs" and "Female Gucci Mane" exude an irrepressible bad b*tch energy, combining Sexyy's crisp wordplay with an addictive drawling delivery that has become her signature. The mixtape earned a sterling 8.0 review from Pitchfork, who wrote that the mixtape "sets the tone for what she hopes is the nastiest, sweatiest, and freakiest summer since the smartphone came along" and "...30 minutes of straight-up standing-on-the-table raps. There are a handful of songs on here that are bound to be summertime anthems." Home to other hits like "Looking For The H*es (Ain't My Fault)," soon to impact Urban Radio, Hood Hottest Princess is climbing the Billboard 200, where it reached a new peak of #75 this week, and Apple Music's charts, where it is currently sitting at #7 on the Hip-Hop albums chart and #12 overall. Hood Hottest Princess is available everywhere via Open Shift/gamma.
With Hood Hottest Princess out now and a burgeoning fanbase that can't get enough of her hits, the rising rapper is dominating 2023. Following a short stint opening on tour for her biggest fan, Drake, during his "It's All A Blur Tour" with 21 Savage, Sexyy Red recently announced the "Hood Hottest Princess Tour," her first-ever headlining tour. The tour quickly sold out, minutes after its initial announce, prompting Sexyy to add dates and upgrade several venues on the tour.
