Saba Shares New Songs “Mrs. Whoever” and “Something in the Water”: Listen

Saba has shared two new songs, his first new material under his own name since 2018. “Something in the Water” features a guest appearance from Denzel Curry and production by Nascent, Nahum, and daedaePIVOT, while Saba produced “Mrs. Whoever” himself. Check out both tracks, including a music video for “Mrs. Whoever,” below.

Saba released a short statement with the new songs:

For me, releasing music is me letting go and getting out of my own way. It’s me shutting down my own ideas of perfectionism, and me accepting my shit for what it is. I can keep holding on to shit and looking for the next best thing, which I think I’ve done my whole life, but I wanna combat that idea of something not being enough by just letting go and sharing my thoughts in real time.

I don’t really care to be understood right now in the same way that I think I did in the past. It would bother me when people would quote lyrics wrong or say ‘this song is about this,’ or ‘this song is about that,’ but that’s because the music was so personal to me. Now it’s just like, man, ‘I made this and I like it, here you go, get what you get.’ And I feel more comfortable with being there.

After releasing album CARE FOR ME in 2018, the Chicago-based rapper followed it with the one-off tracks “Stay Right Here,” “Where It’s At,” and “Papaya” a few months later. In 2019, Saba’s Pivot Gang collective released their second album You Can’t Sit with Us. Later in the year, he joined Noname and Smino in the new group Ghetto Sage, and they released their first single “Häagen Dazs” last October.