Chicago rapper Saba released his last album Care for Me in 2018, and today there’s word of its follow-up. He’s released the new single “Fearmonger” that features Daoud, which also announces his forthcoming album Few Good Things. The song is led with funk guitar, has some great vocoder moments, and features Saba’s slick shift in vocal intonations.
Saba shared a detailed quote about the track saying, “A ‘fearmonger’ is defined by Cambridge as ‘someone who intentionally tries to make people afraid of something when this is not necessary or reasonable.’ I’m saying we’re embedded with this ‘irrational fear.’ The song takes this concept and kind of turns it slightly abstract by assigning a character to ‘fearmonger.’”
Discussing the album, he continued: “At the time of making this record I was beginning to realize how big of a hold fears actually had on me. With big decisions to make, I was never sure if I was doing the right thing. Fearing if I was actually doing enough. Fear had become something that I just accepted. No longer trying to overcome it. Fear of losing everything. Fear of failure. Fear of not being enough. I walk on uncharted territory and it makes me think of my own family and their relationships to fear, failure, and success. The song mostly deals with fear as it relates to money in the Black household, a fear that I am still currently working through.”
Listen to “Fearmonger” below.
