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KYLE ‘See You When I Am Famous’ album is an ode to his graduation yearbook message to peers. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter and rapper is back, in follow-up to 2018’s Light of Mine. Dating back to last year, Super teased plans to leave social media and finish his long-awaited major release. As an ode to his high-school year book, Kyle fulfills his prophecy of entertainment success. The new album has guest appearances from Bryson Tiller, Raphael Saadiq, K Camp, Tyga, Trippie Redd, Too $hort, Rico Nasty and others.
Listen to Kyle’s See You When I am Famous album in full below.
When KYLE was in high school, his senior quote was “see you when I’m famous,” and whether by manifestation, luck, hard work, or some combination thereof, here he is. The California rapper’s second album See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!! traces his journey from Ventura to Los Angeles, where he transformed that proclamation into a reality, as he takes stock of the things that were gained and lost along the way. Fame is never without its costs, but it can be hard to tell that by listening to KYLE; a sense of optimism is the consistent element across all of his music, which folds in the bubbliness of pop, the sentimentality of R&B, the carefree ethos of surf rock, all filtered through a rap lens. “With this album, I realized I wanted to get back to the KYLE bag,” he tells Apple Music. “My headspace was really trying to reconnect with my past to tap back into, I think, the best nature of KYLE music, which is just pure joy and excitement and happiness and starry-eyedness.” Many of the songs resemble those of old—“Money Now” with its bright production and triumphant lyrics, “GIRLS” with its buoyantly flirty singsong raps, “What It Is” with its utopian read of tough separations. But there’s also a more contemplative version of himself that emerges throughout, on songs like the mellowed standout “The Sun” which paint KYLE in a new light. “It is a breakup album in a sense, because me leaving my hometown, which is essentially what I’m talking about, I had to break up with a lot of people,” he says. “You have to break up with your girlfriend, you’ve got to break up with your homies—none of my homies were my friends after that. But at the end of the day, the 17-year-old me put ‘see you when I’m famous,’ and I made it. I made it happen.” Read on for KYLE’s thoughts about each track on the project.