Trail-blazing Atlanta native Bktherula shares new album LVL5 P2. The body of work arrives with the cinematic visual for “SHAKIN IT” featuring Cash Cobain.
The 21-year-old artist always follows her inner muse and makes music without emotional inhibitions or artificial creative boundaries. On her new album, LVL5 P2, Bk takes her hybrid sound into new territory. The album features the recently released buzzing single “CRAYON,” which has earned over three million streams in just four weeks.
Deepening a style she explored with her acclaimed 2023 album LVL5 P1, the new album deposits the listener directly into Bk’s sonic realm, crafted by Bk with assistance from producers like azure, Simmyauto, among others. Songs like recent single “THE WAY” and new highlight “RACKS UP” add dollops of clean electric guitar to her room-enveloping sound, while songs like “WISHUWASDACREW” and “INSANE” borrow elements from chiptune and her beloved video game soundtracks. Bktherula always sounds perfectly at home, whether she’s yearning for her love on a ballad like “JUST MAKE SURE,” or tearing through chaotic rage beats on songs like “CODE” or the ferocious single “TATTI.”
LVL5 P2 arrives along with a video for “SHAKIN IT” ft. Cash Cobain. Produced by Cash himself, the song finds a middle ground between Cash’s sample-heavy “sexy drill” sound and Bk’s ethereal dreamscapes, conjuring an atmosphere that invites head-nodding and hip-shaking. Alternating rapid-fire rhymes and tuneful cadences, Bk skillfully maneuvers between insistent 808s and crisp finger snaps with wavy flexes before Cash delivers his free-flowing X-rated bars to end the song. In the video, Bk takes a trip to Brooklyn, where she walks along the waterfront, dances in front of a bodega, and shuts down the function with Cash.
The new single, as well as the rest of her new tunes, will receive a warm welcome when Bk joins PinkPantheress on her “Capable of Love Tour,” which takes the U.S. this April. Click HERE to buy tickets and see tour dates.
Recently named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list, Bk has built a devoted following by releasing tracks that showcase her raw emotions. Now, with LVL5 P2, she’s done it again — delivering a singular statement that could never have come from anybody else.
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