YNW Melly has released his latest EP, WE ALL SHINE and dropped its first visual, “Mixed Personalities” featuring Kanye West. Melly is the exciting new star out of Florida, who captivated music lovers everywhere with his RIAA Certified Gold single, “Murder On My Mind” and his telling documentary, MELLY.
WE ALL SHINE features special appearances from pop culture icon, Kanye West and local Baton Rogue rapper, Fredo Bang. Discussing the project Melly stated, “It’s really based on what [I] grew up on – being locked up for 2 years of [my] life…It means more than just gang banging. We All Shine is to the universe to the whole world. It’s not just Black culture but to White culture, to every culture, we all shine.” He continued, “We all need to come together as one nation and just let everybody shine and stop bringing darkness to each other and stop depression, you know what I’m saying? I just want everybody to find the light deep deep inside of their soul and let them find themselves for themselves and we all gone shine and its not gonna happen unless we all shine together.”
Melly’s juxtaposition of misery stricken lyrics and beautifully exuberant production assists in his remarkable body of work to both loyal fans and curious music lovers around the world. Less than a year into music, the 19 year-old has accumulated over 200 million views on YouTube. Stands out tracks such as: “Murder On My Mind,” “Virtual,” and “Melly the Menace” has shot Melly to the forefront of Florida rap and caught the attention of The Fader, Forbes, Pitchfork, Complex, Genius, Hypebeast, Hot New Hip-Hop, Elevator, and many more.
Melly lives in the present and labors beautiful rap ballads. The Florida native’s emotive ambition has the potential to transcend music, which didn’t go unnoticed by one of music’s biggest stars, Kanye West.
WE ALL SHINE is currently available on all streaming platforms.