A. Billi Free & The Lasso - Thrive, Despite
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Billi Free & The Lasso - "Thrive, Despite" from the 2022 album Holy Body Roll on Mello Music Group.
Holy Body Roll, released this March, is a collaborative record between New Mexico vocalist A. Billi Free and Michigan producer The Lasso that leans into the duo’s love for funk, pop, hip hop, and R&B for a record that’s free-flowing and boundaryless. Joined by The Lasso’s studio team made up of saxophonist The Saxsquatch, cellist Jordan Hamilton, and pianist Grayson Nye, Holy Body Roll is meant to serve as a “groove-filled guidebook for healing, the soundtrack to help you move from tear-streaming breakdown to full-body boogie.”
Our Song of the Day, “Thrive, Despite,” embodies this both in title and spirit. Led by a jazzy piano line from Nye, the song morphs into a downtempo R&B track that has incredible warmth as A. Billi Free croons, “I know you carrying this weight /This thang so deep can’t touch the base /After you take a little break, get up and face another day.”
“We’ve been building this project since late 2020,” explained Free in an interview. “We used this record to process difficult personal/collective feelings and embody the celebration of little victories with honest lyrics, layered vocals and a unique sonic homage to R&B, funk, rock and pop using our shared love of hip-hop as a foundation.”
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| 0:00.0 | So |
| 0:31.0 | I know you can't be in this way |
| 0:36.0 | These things only can touch the face |
| 0:40.0 | After you take a little break |
| 0:44.0 | Get up and face another day |
| 0:48.0 | And thrive despite all the trials |
| 0:51.0 | And the fires they fly |
| 0:53.0 | Heavy fires to climb |
| 0:55.0 | Just stand by |
| 0:56.0 | You're designed to find |
| 0:58.0 | You can't drive |
| 0:59.0 | You can't go |
| 1:00.0 | To get sun |
| 1:01.0 | It's got time |
| 1:02.0 | It's all right |
| 1:03.0 | Good luck |
| 1:04.0 | If it's much better, good day |
| 1:06.0 | All the way up in our good day |
| 1:08.0 | Mash up the places up here like any |
| 1:10.0 | Purpose and desire |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, we go city |
| 1:12.0 | Dark babies |
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