Taleban Dooda: Warner Records' own drops the new 'Major Pain'

There’s no Damon Wayans here, just Taleban Dooda coming through with the hard-hitting new ‘Major Pain’ anthem. So of course on a New Music Friday, it’s bigger than just audio flexing - a music video is vital.

The song goes hard but the cinematic presence takes it up a few notches. Peep the details and keep scrolling for the video.

Today, East Tampa rapper Taleban Dooda releases his unfiltered new single “Major Pain.” Listen HERE via District 18 / Warner Records. Powerful and diaristic, the rising star's new offering explores the challenges of putting on a brave face when the going gets tough. To mark the occasion, Dooda also drops the track’s accompanying video, which highlights his emotional delivery and magnetism.

 Grounded by a driving beat and melodic guitar arrangement, "Major Pain" finds Dooda at his most vulnerable. "As a child I feel major pain, trying to hide my feelings behind a smile but I don't feel the same," the 20-year-old spits. "I know how you feel my friend, it hurt like hell I know." The track culminates with the melancholy, brutally honest outro: "I can't give out no love no more, no love no more, it's all gone." 

The "Major Pain" video finds Dooda in a number of different locations, delivering the new track with poise and grace. Many of them — a backyard by a fence, leaning out of a backseat — amplify the song's disarming, confessional quality. Although "Major Pain" hits where it hurts, it also demands to be played, again and again.

 The new single arrives shortly after Dooda's boisterous “Come After Me” and Step Wit A Passion mixtape, which dropped in late 2022 and boasted the hit single “If It Happen It Happen.” That project followed Dooda’s other 2022 release White Chalk & Yellow Tape, which is disarmingly cohesive from front to back. Prior to that, he dropped a series of singles including “Foreigns & Trackhawks,” “Sunset,” and “Call 100 Times.”