Kojey Radical - Don’t Look Down (Album)

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Kojey Radical Returns with Sophomore Album Don’t Look Down.

East London’s own multi-hyphenate artist Kojey Radical has released his second album Don’t Look Down via Asylum / Warner Music UK. Spanning 16 tracks and featuring the likes of Ghetts, Bawo, MNEK, Dende, James Vickery, Cristale, Col3trane, Jaz Karis and more, it’s his most ambitious project to date.

The record is a bold and deeply personal exploration of life in your 30s – the highs, the doubts, the transitions. Across a backdrop of eclectic sounds that touch everything from golden-age hip hop to disco, grime, jazz and ska, Kojey opens up on themes of fatherhood, loss, friendship, hedonism and growth. It’s vulnerable, reflective, but also celebratory – a reminder, as he puts it, “to dance through hard times” and “find pieces of joy in this world.”

Fatherhood weaves through the album as a central theme, nowhere more powerfully than on closing track Baby Boy with Ghetts, where Kojey shares the hopes and anxieties of raising his son. Elsewhere, songs like Rotation, Conversation and Life of the Party grapple with self-doubt, shifting relationships and the search for stability after success.

To accompany the album, Kojey has also released a short film directed by Relta. More than a standard music video, it blends three songs (Rule One, Conversation and Baby Boy) into a cinematic journey, shot largely within four walls to capture the intimacy and honesty of the record.

Since his Mercury-nominated debut Reason to Smile (2022), Kojey has established himself as one of the UK’s most creative voices, not just in music but across culture and fashion. With Don’t Look Down, he offers a time-stamp of where he is now: reflective, experimental and unafraid to bare it all.