Brent Faiyaz gets real close with Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o in his new music video, “WY@.”
Ahead of its premiere on Valentine’s Day (February 14), the singer shared a preview of what to expect from the steamy visual – and fans are both excited and seething with jealousy of Lupita.
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“Lupita, can you fight?” one woman wrote on his Instagram post of the clip. “ngl this had me cheesing and jelly at the same time,” another said, while someone else commented, “She smiling too hard for me…he ain’t said nun worth smiling for.”
Brent actually teased the cameo weeks ago with a selfie beside the actress in what appears to be a car, but he didn’t give any context as to what they were up to.
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“WY@” lives on Brent Faiyaz’s 2023 mixtape Larger Than Life. Clocking in at 14 songs, the project boasts features from A$AP Rocky, Missy Elliott, Babyface Ray, Coco Jones, and A$AP Ant, as well as Timbaland, who makes a cameo on the aptly-titled “Tim’s Intro.”
Larger Than Life marked Brent’s first release since he signed an “unprecedented partnership” with Steve Stoute’s UnitedMasters last May.
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The illustrated cover art, meanwhile, depicts a giant sneaker adorned with the logo of Brent’s NUWO clothing brand stomping a city street, sending several sports cars flying.
The tape followed 2017’s Sonder Son, 2018’s Lost, 2020’s Fuck the World, and 2022’s Wasteland.
The last of these took the Maryland native to new commercial and critical heights, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 88,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
In October, it was certified platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), commemorating at least one million sales in the U.S.
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Wasteland, which received a 4.2 out of 5 score from HipHopDX and was named one of the year’s best R&B albums, boasted collaborations with heavyweights like Drake, Tyler, The Creator, Alicia Keys, The Neptunes, and No ID, among others.
