American rapper, songwriter and singer, Lil Tjay has released a mixtape on May 8 among the Coronavirus outbreak, with a fitting name. Containing 7 powerful tracks and many outstanding features, this is one of the May EPs you are going to want to check out! An EP is a play record that provides more tracks than a single but is not quite an album. This project has kept the successful momentum going after Lil Tjay’s debut album F.N experienced major success.
Lil Tjay managed to collaborate with rappers such as, Sleepy Hollow, Jay Critch, Fivio Foreign and even Pop Smoke. Tjay and Fivio Foreign managed to do something revolutionary while shooting the music video to his song “Zoo York”. They were able to stop an entire New York city highway to create a shot for the video. This tremendous effort paid off as “Zoo York” reached top 3 in trending on YouTube. It is also his stand-out record and longest record on his mixtape. This song features recently passed away, Pop Smoke. It was a great decision to add him and it is widely respected by his fans.
Many other compelling songs are on his playlist but to get the full expereince it is recommended you check it out yourself. The full mixtape is on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, iTunes, Soundcloud and Amazon
The album cover features Lil Tjay himself in the middle of an abandoned city. You can see crows overhead and buildings falling apart. This is an obvious reference to the Coronavirus outbreak causing everything to fall apart and close down. Lil Tjay has had and currently has some problems with some New York rappers. Having grown up in the Bronx he is a New Yorker himself and with this project he has tried to end all the ongoing beef. He has apologized to fellow New York rappers A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and 6ix9ine for dissing them. He even stated “F**k this beef s**t, I don’t encourage it.”. This albyum cover could be