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Yaya Bey: Ten Fold review – a free-ranging tribute

Bey’s latest, written in mourning to her rapper father Grand Daddy IU and featuring his voice, includes catchy dancefloor bangers alongside soulful odes

Her 2022 album Remember Your North Star riffled through genres from R&B to reggae with aplomb, packing in nagging hooks, easy humour, and emotional reckonings with exes and her estranged mother. Ten Fold, though, refers to a story from the Qur’an about a pious man being rewarded many times over; throughout Bey reflects on what she has gained from the hard lessons endured by her father. Bey’s own candour endures, meanwhile; Crying Through My Teeth reflects on the cold, hard expense of death as an extra dimension of loss.

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