{"id":37469,"date":"2025-08-11T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/lady-wray-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:59:51","slug":"lady-wray-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/lady-wray-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Wray \u2013 \u201cHard Times\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today, Lady Wray shares the latest offering from her forthcoming new album with \u201cHard Times\u201d. From its opening drum beats, Lady Wray\u2019s new single beckons listeners to the dancefloor, with a triumphant, feel good anthem that collides contemporary R&amp;B and classic soul with cheeky flashes of disco flair. Despite the dour foreshadowing of the song\u2019s title, \u201cHard Times\u201d is an uplifting statement of perseverance and holding on to one\u2019s joy, a driving theme of Nicole\u2019s new album Cover Girl, out September 26th via Big Crown Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe title=\"Lady Wray - Hard Times\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBSb7fId2c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Lady Wray - Hard Times\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBSb7fId2c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cover Girl elevates Wray\u2019s artistry as the latest product of her decade-spanning partnership with Grammy Award winning producer Leon Michels (Clairo, Norah Jones, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/tag\/freddie-gibbs\/\"><strong>Freddie Gibbs<\/strong><\/a><\/span>). Together, Wray and Michels have crafted a joyful, revitalized vision of Wray\u2019s sound, which draws from several of her formative musical influences, \u201860s and \u201870s-inspired soul and disco, \u201890s hip-hop and R&amp;B, and gospel. Cover Girl also captures Wray turning the focus of her writing inward, looking back fondly on herself as a little girl as she\u2019s grown as a mother in the years since 2022\u2019s Piece of Me, living vivaciously with the same warmth she sees watching her daughter grow up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Lady Wray shares the latest offering from her forthcoming new album with \u201cHard Times\u201d. 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