Label: Drink Sum Wtr

Released 8/15/2025

“Suffering is promised to us all, but so is joy. You have to find peace in that duality,” says Yaya Bey, who commits to life’s delight — humor, love, the power of human movement and connection — even if she has to do it afraid. With her new album, which follows a run of critically acclaimed releases and marks her debut on art-forward indie label drink sum wtr, the Queens, New York singer-songwriter thrives across uplifting, effervescent material. A rejection of past narratives projected onto her, do it afraid finds Bey reclaiming her story with resolutely fun, full-hearted, and nuanced songs that pull from R&B, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and dance music, including the soca stylings of her family’s Bajan roots. do it afraid celebrates all sides of Yaya as part of a collective lifeforce that doesn’t subscribe to fear but to the moments that move us.

Track Listing:

1. wake up b*tch
   
2. end of the world (feat. Nigel Hall & Butcher Brown)
   
3. real yearners unite
   
4. cindy rella
   
5. raisins
   
6. spin cycle
   
7. dream girl
   
8. merlot and grigio (feat. Father Philis)
   
9. breakthrough
   
10. a surrender
    
11. in a circle
    
12. aye noche (feat. Rahrah Gabor and Exaktly)
    
13. no for real, wtf?
    
14. blicky
    
15. ask the questions
    
16. bella noches pt. 1
    
17. a tiny thing that's mine
    
18. choice