Zayn tweeted that Naughty Boy should "stop pretending we're friends", and Naughty Boy responded by saying that he thought his former pal had been hacked. They had been working hard together in the studio for the past few months, but when a music video clip featuring Zayn leaked online, he suspected it to have come from Naughty Boy and the pair's relationship crumbled. There probably won't be any songs produced by Naughty Boy - but could there be a diss track about his former friend?! "Because for five-not even for five years, for ten years, this album has been in my brain, and it’s just been there, sat with me, needing to be out." "Once hear it, I feel like they will understand me a little bit more, and they’ll understand why I did what I did, and why I left the band, and why I had to write this s**t down," he added. "I wouldn’t be able to give you one standout moment where I was like this is what I want to do because I guess I just always kinda knew. It is just all my perspective and that’s fully liberating," he told The Fader. "It’s a nice feeling to come out of a place where you are being told what to do and to be upset because of certain expectations are set and things that people want to see. Zayn’s feeling VERY liberated on this new record… and he’s had this album in his head for YEARS! Just like a lot of RnB and a lot of rap." “Then as I got older I just started listening to a lot of my dad’s old records like nineties stuff. "You know I used to listen to a lot of Bollywood being a kid and stuff so yeah that definitely influenced the music a little bit,” he explained to The Fader. Zayn’s been influenced by EVERYTHING - from Bollywood to rap and RnB! “It was just something that we wanted to do because we wanted to make it quite real and genuine.” “It’s quite a personal album and we recorded a lot of it actually out in the woods and stuff like this which is quite weird. “Life experiences have just been influences for the album and just stuff that I’ve been through, especially in the last five years and being in the band and everything,” Zayn revealed to The Fader. Prepare for something VERY personal… recorded out in the woods! The video features Zayn's solo offering playing in the background and sounds pretty damned awesome. We've got this AMAZING snippet of a new Zayn song called 'Befour'.
The music reflects that as well because they’re different emotions, so you feel different things through each song. There’s some R&B more inflected, and others that are like reggae-sounding,” Zayn revealed to the Daily Star. Look for a VERY different sound on the album - from R&B to reggae! and it gave us our first proper taste of the sound Zayn's going for! Zayn Malik kicked off his solo career after Four came out.Zayn dropped the track as a HUGE surprise and went on to land at No.1 just two days after the song's release. On Sunday, the One Direction alum mysteriously tweeted a link to a Dropbox folder under the name Yellow Tape, which led fans to find three new tracks: Grimez, Believe Me, and 47 11. Picture: Album Artwork Back with yet another Autumn release, One Direction dropped ‘Four’ on November 17, 2014. Seeing as all three of Zayn’s solo albums have been R&B-focused, fans were surprised to discover the singer’s new tracks were rap songs - and even more surprised to learn which celebs the father-of-one had in his cross-hairs! Recommended: Zayn Malik Releases 1st Solo Song After One Direction. Singer releases a demo less than a week after leaving the band. British Tommy's letter from the Trenches tipped to fetch £3,000.ABC News' Dan Kloeffler has the latest in the 'Pop News' midday buzz. Or he might just be a huge Meghan Markle fan.Īnd on the track Grimez, Zayn seems to fire shots at none other than Kanye West - but unlike ‘Ye’s other rap adversaries, he does so in a bizarre way, rapping: On Believe Me, the artist appears to make a dig at former manager Simon Cowell rapping, “Glad we left Syco” - which, as fans know, is the music label that managed 1D.Įlsewhere in the song, Gigi Hadid’s baby daddy seemingly took shots at Her Majesty herself, rapping, “F**k the Queen and basically all you get is silence from her Majesty.” Whoa! This might be a reference to Zayn’s 2012 experience meeting her Royal Highness along with the rest of his former bandmates. So, either Zayn thinks the Grammy winner’s music is s**t, or he just challenged Kanye to a farting contest.
We’ll wait and see if any of Zayn’s victims fire back with digs of their own.