The London producer joins forces with the Baltimore rapper for a fierce, club-focused fusion of hypnotic house and raw hip-hop energy.
Maya Jane Coles returns to her Night Creatures imprint with ‘Rise Up’, a new collaboration with Baltimore rapper Rye Rye.
Built around submerged low-end pressure, hypnotic percussion and Rye Rye’s commanding vocal delivery, the track merges Maya’s signature after-hours house aesthetic with hip-hop energy shaped by years of club testing.
Speaking on the collaboration, Maya says:
‘I had made the instrumental of ‘Rise Up’ quite a while back, and whenever I was playing it out, I’d drop a Missy Elliott acapella over the top. The crowd would always go nuts for it, and I knew I had to get a sick female rapper on the track.
I’d always been a fan of Rye Rye’s work, and I could instantly hear her doing something special over it. Rye Rye is one of those artists whose vocals have been sampled over and over again in electronic music without credit. It felt way more exciting to collaborate than sample, so I hit her up to see if she’d be down to work on something together. She said yes, and the rest is history.’