SwaVay: The much-needed 'Almetha's Son' album just received the deluxe treatment
Sometimes you just want to cruise with the windows down and music blasting. So leave it up to SwaVay for coming through with a revamped version of his Almetha’s Son studio album. Deluxe edition goals? You bet.
SwaVay’s new ‘Almetha’s Son’ deluxe album has officially arrived
Who says we have to wait until a New Music Friday for this drop? The project has arrived and it comes at perfect timing.
SwaVay - a native son and scion of Atlanta’s diverse rap ecosystem - reups and recharges his acclaimed debut album, ALMETHA’S SON, with the definitive DELUXE EDITION out today via Giant Music/Def Jam Recordings. He expanded the original with two brand new tracks, namely “DUBLIN” [feat. Ben Reilly & Nassan] and the single “UH” accompanied by a music video.
“UH” laces a thumping bass line and 808 claps with orchestral loops as SwaVay stomps over the beat with focused and fiery rhymes. He exhales over the production and confesses on the dreamy bridge, “I can’t help it. I say crazy shit, if I’m crazy man. You know I need me a crazy bitch.” The visual translates this emotion to the screen in eye-catching fashion, distinguishing his dynamic vision. Elsewhere, “DUBLIN” pairs another punchy soundscape with the chantable autobiographical refrain, “I turn nothing into something, got it jumping from the Dungeon.”
ALMETHA’S SON has already generated over 5 million streams and counting. Plus, it earned widespread acclaim. HotNewHipHop professed, “The rapper undoubtedly takes his craft seriously, reminding everyone that he is a lyricist with every drop he makes,” and AllHipHop hailed him as “The true opposite of one-dimensional.” XXL christened the project “a skipless, sonic autobiography,” and proclaimed, “the Atlanta-bred artist has popped back out with a new energy that’s given him more momentum than ever before.”Perhaps, office put it best, “SwaVay is here for the long run, and his silver tongue practically guarantees longevity, so get used to seeing his name.”
Powered by a hard-earned confidence that his own genre-traversing style is ready for hip-hop’s – and music’s – biggest stages, SwaVay arrives at the industry’s #1 hip-hop destination with the depth and dexterity that is typical of Dogwood City’s greatest. His brand of soulful trap fusion has earned cosigns and collabs from artists across genres and sounds, from multi-platinum producer Metro Boomin, to U.K. pop/electronic/R&B auteur James Blake.
In 2019, SwaVay shared a Grammy® nomination for his contribution to “Elevate” (with DJ Khalil, Cordae, Denzel Curry, and Trevor Rich), from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack. In 2021, SwaVay appeared on “Frozen” (with Dreamville Records’ J.I.D), a track from Blake’s LP, Friends That Break Your Heart.
Inspired by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Drake, as well as golden-era greats like Jay-Z, Nas, and Snoop Dogg – SwaVay dropped his first solo project, Poet Talk(2012), while still in school. More indie releases followed, including TRVPLANTA (2015), and Before Eye Die (2016), as SwaVay found his place amid Atlanta’s competitive trap scene.
