Yaya Bey has dropped new single “sir princess bad bitch”. Serving as one of the album’s centerpiece statements, the song embodies the complexities of Yaya’s identity as a genderqueer person, with her stating resolutely that she is “no other thing but the thing I am.” Yaya first started writing songs at the age of nine. Recently, she starred alongside Immanuel Wilkins in an ad campaign for Converse’s recent collaboration with New York-based brand AwakeNY. In 2023, Yaya performed a sold-out show at SOBs for Spotify Stages, capping off a run of live performances at festival stages across the globe last year, including Glastonbury in the UK, Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, Roskilde Festival in Denmark,

“sir princess bad bitch” is off Yaya’s forthcoming LP, Ten Fold. The album serves as a free-spoken and flowing self-portrait characterized by in-the-moment reflections on the past, present, and future. It brims with the various facets of Yaya’s creative endeavors and bucks against the conveniently limiting narrative that her music is solely made to capture the plight of Black women. The album mirrors the multitudes she contains and meditates on the external conditions of her community as much as it’s an exploration of her own being. Ten Fold finds Yaya reckoning with being a musician and her evolving relationship to a fraught career path that she’s determined to force in her favor, reaping the fruits of her labor along the way.

Yaya Bey
Ten Fold
Big Dada

1. crying through my teeth
2. the evidence
3. chrysanthemums
4. sir princess bad bitch
5. east coast mami
6. chasing the bus
7. all around los angeles
8. slow dancing in the kitchen
9. so fantastic (feat. Grand Daddy I.U.)
10. eric adams on the club (feat. Exaktly)
11. me and my niggas
12. iloveyoufrankiebeverly
13. career day
14. carl thomas sliding down the wall
15. yvette’s cooking show
16. let go

Yaya Bey 2024 Live Dates:

3/12 – Austin, TX @ SXSW – The Politics House @ The Parish
3/13 – Austin, TX @ SXSW – Marshall Funhouse @ The Parish
3/14 – Austin, TX @ SXSW – AdHoc Free For All @ Cheer Up Charlies
5/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
5/25 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
5/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Paramount
6/1 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live

Pre-order Ten Fold by Yaya Bey HERE