skaiwater Returns With "pop" | Hypebeast


skaiwater has shared their first single of 2025, which additionally marks their first single because the launch of their communally acclaimed #gigi album. The album dropped again in June, placing the UK artist on the radar of many after it started raking in excessive opinions. Now, the rising rapper has unveiled their first launch since final summer time’s album: a true-to-form providing dubbed “pop.”

The just-under three-minute observe is a solo effort from skai, who additionally handles the manufacturing alongside Elkan and anca trio plus one. Outlined by the younger rapper’s signature staccato supply and smooth but frenetic manufacturing model, “pop” additional strengthens skai’s genre-blurring imaginative and prescient, closely knowledgeable by their expertise as a nonbinary particular person.

“Come out with me, it’s okay (It’s okay; phew) / Yeah, come out with me, woman we protected / Yeah, I textual content her complete gang (Entire gang) / Yeah, I spend a complete factor (Entire factor),” skai spits on the bouncy refrain.

skaiwater simply made their Rolling Loud debut on the competition’s Miami occasion, set to return to the now two-day California Rolling Loud competition in March.

Stream “pop” – out all over the place now.