CEO Trayle: It's all boss thoughts and moves in 'Pardon My Playa'
It’s more than just putting out a fire The Collection Vol. 2 studio effort to the masses for CEO Trayle. The hip-hop artist comes through with the visual treatment to his ‘Pardon My Playa’ anthem.
The song alone hits hard but the music video takes things to another level. Peep the details and keep scrolling to see CEO Trayle in his rap bag.
Slithering through sumptuous instrumentals with conversational precision, CEO Trayle delivers detailed dispatches from his lothario lifestyle. Politely asking listeners to excuse his smoothness, Trayle shares "Pardon My Playa," his new music video. Blessed with a blissful beat by Yung Icey, adorned with vintage electro-style synths and loping bass, Trayle spins an extra-long verse, detailing the highs and lows of his life as a playa: "You can't slick talk the slick talker/Said he's playa, P for short/Like when Backdooring used to be a sport/Lil bro on lockdown, said he made a knife from out a fork." In the video, directed by Decat, Trayle rolls high in Atlanta, taking his Maybach to the mall to go shopping for his favorite brands (Amiri, Saint Laurent, and more).
"Pardon My Playa" is the latest video from The Collection Vol. 2, following last week's "Meant 4 You." Over the course of 12 tracks, The Collection Vol. 2 further explores the haunting, yet luscious trap sound he explored on his acclaimed 2022 HH5 mixtape, featuring rich contributions from producers like Trauma Tone, Stribb, and Yung Icey. Throughout the tape, Trayle creates a world fit for a film noir, filled with femme fatales and danger around every corner. The follow-up to last year's The Collection, an 8-song mixtape home to highlights like “Of Course,” The Collection Vol. 2 shows how far the Atlanta-based rapper has come in the past year. The Collection Vol. 2 is home to “Brody Trippin,” a collaboration with PDE signee and rising Atlanta star Baby Drill, "CrxckFlow II," a sequel to a highlight from HH5, and the viral "Song Cry," originally released as a From The Block freestyle that racked up over 3.1 million views. The Collection Vol. 2 is available everywhere via Do What You Love/10K Projects.
Need more details on what CEO Trayle is doing? Of course you do.
2022 was a breakout year for CEO Trayle, packed with critical acclaim and new commercial landmarks. The rapper known as "Mr. Back Door" ended the year on a high note, sharing HH5, which Pitchfork blessed with its coveted Best New Music designation. Home to the complicated relationship anthem “I Love You But…,“ featured on Drake’s OVO Sound Radio, HH5 establishes Trayle as one of the slickest talkers in a stacked ATL scene, twirling his soft-spoken and erudite delivery like a cartoon villain twirls his mustache. HH5 capitalized on the momentum generated by Trayle's viral 2021 hit “Ok Cool,” which generated over 60 million streams and earned a remix from Gunna.
With The Collection Vol. 2 in the books and much more music to come, CEO Trayle is primed to take over the rap game.
