RA.1027 JADALAREIGN

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4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Two hours of groove, texture and Black excellence from new-school New York royalty. New York native JADALAREIGN has always represented Black excellence, but in recent years her vision crystallised. The in-demand act and former Nowadays booker has fine-tuned her creative practice, experimenting with tempo and selection in ways that have led to a deep, nuanced relationship with Black artistry, one that centres musical education through storytelling. Behind the decks, JADALAREIGN is principled. They say wisdom brings sorrow, but RA.1027 suggests the opposite. It opens with a vocal sample whose message mirrors her wider creative practice: "I'm an African woman who believes in justice for all people. The priorities of this planet have to completely change." From there, the mix ricochets through rumbly drums and sci-fi whirr, peppering house melodies with slo-mo bleeps and techy steppers. She moves across club genres with fluid ease, keeping the cadence loose-limbed yet dynamic throughout. It's strange and tactile—and it sounds like freedom. JADALAREIGN seems surer than ever about all aspects of her career, and it shows in her RA Mix. If you see her at the function, her joy for her work is ever bountiful. For US Black History Month, it's a timely reminder that history isn't only something we look back on; JADALAREIGN is making it, live. Find the Q&A and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1046

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0:00.0	I'm an African woman who believes in freedom and justice, social justice, political justice,
0:09.0	economic justice for all people. I believe that oppressed people, wherever they are,
0:16.0	have the right to self-determination. I believe that the priorities of this planet have to be completely changed.
0:23.6	No, we change.
0:26.6	We'll be able to be on the busing. Come yawbae be gulla, be y'allah and the gitch-kitche. We've got to be y'all'all'all'all, and the gitch-ch-kid'i-h-h-h-h-h-h-haw-h, you should have seen it for the bridge come. Come y'all-be-over, y'-be, y'-haw-h, hop. You should have seen it for the bridge come. Wee be gulla, be y'allah, and the yidja-kitchi, we've got since it's time for the buzzing. Come y'all, over y'all, we don't want to go, o'u-hop, you should have seen it for a bridge come. We'd be be be bella-bella-bella and the Gitchie-Gitchie, we need y'all since the time time for the bus sing come y'all over y'all don't want to go o oo hop-hop you should
0:57.0	have seen it for the bridge come we be gulla be gulla and the itch-gitchie-gitchie we'll y'all'clock we'll y'all over y'n't want to go o'u-hop you should have seen it for the bridge come You should be for the bridge come.
1:06.3	We be be bella bella and a bitchy-kitch.
1:08.2	We've been y'all since the time for the bussing.
1:10.2	Come y'all, over y'all, I wouldn't want to go.
1:11.8	Ooh, ha, ha.
1:12.5	You should have seen for the bridge come.
1:14.0	We be gulla-bellah. Gala Gala and the Gigi Gigi, we've been y'all since the time for the bussing. Come y'all, over, y'all. We didn't want to go, ooh, ha, hop.
1:12.6	You should have seen it for the bridge come.
1:13.6	We be Gala, Bella, Bella, and the Gigi-Kichi.
1:15.6	We would y'i-Geechee.
1:16.6	We should have been for the buzzing.
1:17.6	Come y'all over y'all, we don't want to go, ooh, hop, ha, ha,
1:20.1	you should see him for a bridge come,
1:21.6	we be be be bella-della and the Gucci-Gitchie Queen.
1:23.6	Y'all's time for the buzzing.
1:25.6	Come, y'all, over, y'n' want to go,
1:27.6	ooh-hop, you should have seen him for the bridge come,
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