Rory & Shelley FKA DRAM & Alex Isley [2022] - I WANT YOU BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW... [Avant Garden]

Alex Isley seems be be highly in demand featuring on several artists recordings of late, Butcher Brown, Tank & The Bangas, Moonchild and Spotify exclusives just to name a few.

She crops up again on this new single "I WANT YOU BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW... " by Rory (Farrell) along with FKA DRAM (now known as Shelley (Marshaun) released yesterday (12 Jul 2022). 

Rory is from New York and is formerly of the Joe Budden Podcast and now the co-host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, New Rory & MAL, with millions of listeners per month. This is his debut release which he has been curating for the last three years.

P.S. I don't know the relevance of the capitalisation of the title? I do wish artists would refrain from this as we never know whether it is intentional or not as sometimes it's that way on the cover but not on the listing and vice versa and it is as confusing as hell! Grammatical conventions are in place for a reason, it's not big and it's not clever 😏 it's just confusing!

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	Y
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Avant Garden
Cat No:	None
Date:	12/07/2022
Key/BPM:	2A/95
Price:	£1

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Shelley FKA DRAM [2021] - Shelley FKA DRAM [W.A.V.E. Recordings]

Shelley formerly known as DRAM (Does. Real. Ass. Music.) releases his first album under his new name on 29 Apr 2021. A couple of the tracks from the album ('Cookin' with Grease' and 'The Lay Down' with H.E.R. & WATT) were pre-released at the end of March and posted here.

Hampton City, VA, based Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith was born in Germany and debuted with a mixtape in 2014.

The current single from the album is 'All Pride Aside' (video below which is different from the album version as the album version features Summer Walker).

The album is a mellow affair, with the best tracks for me being 'Something About You', the previously posted 'Cookin' On Grease' and the album version of 'All Pride Aside' as it features the female vocals of Summer Walker which sweetens the track.

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Rating:	7
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	W.A.V.E. Recordings
Cat No:	None
Year:	29/04/2021
Value:	£8.69

Shelley FKA DRAM [2021] - Cooking With Grease [W.A.V.E. Recordings/EMPIRE/Atlantic]

At the beginning of the month (4 Mar) I posted 'Exposure' by Shelley. It would appear that he is working on a self-titled album (Expected 16 Apr 2021) as he's dropped another track from it on 26 Mar 2021 'Cooking With Grease'. The only other track currenmtly available (apart from 'Exposure') is 'The Lay Down' featuring H.E.R. & WATT.

I've posted two versions of 'Cooking With Grease' as the live one to me sounds a bit off!  The track featuring H.E.R. & WATT starts of OK but turns into a bit of a psychedelic rock track about two third of the way through!

Shelley (Marshaun Massenburg-Smith) FKA (formerly known as) DRAM (Does Real Ass Music) is a German-born American musician, singer, rapper and actor from Hampton, VA.

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The Lay Down with H.E.R. & WATT

Details

Rating:	7.8
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	W.A.V.E. Recordings/EMPIRE/Atlantic
Cat No:	None
Year:	26/03/2021
Key:	6A / 8B
BPM:	85 / 62
Value:	£1

Shelley FKA DRAM [2021] - Exposure [W.A.V.E./Atlantic]

So what this? Shelley FKA DRAM is hip-hop artist D.R.A.M. reinventing himself (FKA is formerly known as). This is his new 'soulful' R&B single released 26 Feb 2021.

His real name is Shelley Massenburg-Smith and he's from Hampton,VA.  He had a top 10 hit with 'Broccoli' featuring Lil Yachty in 2016, which is completely different to this outing.

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Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	W.A.V.E./ Atlantic
Cat No:	None
Year:	2021
Key:	5B
BPM:	111 (NB I counted 75)
Value:	£1