Chicago-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer keiyaA has released her highly anticipated, sophomore album hooke’s law, on XL Recordings. Written and produced over five years, hooke’s law is keiyaA’s document of survival through self-interrogation. The album deconstructs and rebuilds her ego on her own terms, offering a safe space to process conflicting roles she faced growing up as a queer Black woman. Embracing discomfort and contradiction, keiyaA rejects the demand for neat resolution, instead honouring multivalence – allowing all her past, present and future selves to coexist in harmony, friction and confusion across a genre-defying blend of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, and experimental music.
Leading into the Friday release of her highly anticipated sophomore album hooke’s law, Chicago-born, NYC-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer keiyaA unveils the album’s final preview — the yearning new single and video ‘k.i.s.s.’ The third chapter in keiyaA’s ongoing collaboration with co-director Caity Arthur, the ‘k.i.s.s.’ video places her at the center of a sudsy, carwash fantasy encounter-where flirtation turns into choreography and reminiscence for late-’90s/early-’00s playful swagger of classic R&B videos while twisting nostalgia into something distinctly her own.
keiyaA makes music that excavates, discovers, and excavates again — all in pursuit of life’s most beautiful and daunting questions. A multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, poetry, acting, choreography, and production, she continues her expansive world-building with hooke’s law, arriving on the heels of her first theatrical stage play, milk thot. The two works are deeply intertwined: milk thot stages a ritual of deconstruction and rebirth as keiyaA confronts her shadow self, while hooke’s law extends that process sonically, dismantling and reconstructing the ego on her own terms. Both projects blur the boundaries between performer and audience, self and story, dissolving any notion of linearity. Together, they form a continuum of radical self-interrogation and transformation — a kaleidoscopic expression of identity through sound, movement, and emotion.
keiyaA – ‘take it’ (Official Video)
In 2020, keiyaA released her self-produced debut album Forever, Ya Girl, which earned widespread critical acclaim. The project went on to receive Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” designation, landed on year-end best-of lists from The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and was later named to Pitchfork’s Best of the Decade So Far list. It also drew praise from artists including Solange, Jay-Z, Earl Sweatshirt, Blood Orange, Kimberly Drew, and Moses Sumney. The album announced keiyaA as one of music’s most vital new voices and producers, and the attention it garnered gave her the access to expand on her creative vision—one that has since grown into a thriving garden of projects, performances, and collaborations, each distinct but rooted in her singular artistry.
Since Forever, Ya Girl, keiyaA showcased her dynamism through a Tiny Desk concert, high-profile performances at Solange’s El Dorado Ballroom show at BAM, Wales Bonner’s Togetherness presentation at the Guggenheim, ESSENSE’s Girls United Summit, Bourse de Commerce in Paris, Theaster Gates’ Kenwood Garden community space and MoMA PS1, as well as collaborations with Telfar and Nike. All of these milestones culminated earlier this year in milk thot, her first full-length state production – a multidisciplinary work of music, poetry, acting, choreography – that marked a bold new evolution in keiyaA’s storytelling.
keiyaA
October 31, 2025
XL Recordings
- waltz d’hethert
- i h8 u
- stupid prizes
- take it
- be quiet!!!
- think about it / what u think?
- k.i.s.s.
- make good
- this time (feat. Rahrah Gabor)
- lateeee
- get close 2 me
- fire sign oath
- motions
- motions reprise
- break it
- thirsty
- devotions
- nobody show
- until we meet again
FOLLOW KEIYAA:
