Yaya Bey - Blue (Official Video)

Fresh off the emotional fire of do it afraid, Yaya Bey returns with Fidelity, her seventh studio album, landing April 17. Where its predecessor skirted grief, Fidelity steps straight into the aftermath, a record shaped by rupture, clarity and reclamation. Written after a breaking point on the road, it finds Bey turning inward, choosing self truth over survival performance, and faithfulness over palatability.

At its heart, Fidelity unpacks what Bey calls the “Three Deaths” the personal, the communal, and the loss of innocence. She mourns her father, Grand Daddy I.U., interrogates the disposability of Black artists, and reflects on the erosion of home and collective care, from gentrifying Queens and Bed Stuy to a fractured diaspora reckoning with broken promises, pandemics and state violence.

The album’s singles trace that emotional arc with grace. Lead track Blue glows with early 2000s R&B ease, written, Bey says, at rock bottom. Forty Days flips grief into disco funk resilience, meditating on the soul’s transition after loss, while Egyptian Musk a chance collaboration with Queens native NESTA drifts through dreamy reggae warmth. More than a companion to do it afraid, Fidelity is recovery music, a testament to falling, rising, and staying “religiously joyful” while the world burns.