A.J. Bray - Runway Gyal (EP)
Still relatively fresh off his second installment to the infamous “Love Abuse” series, Bray switches gears yet again to bless us with a new EP, just under 10 minutes of why we love Bray so much. It’s exciting whenever he drops cause I know he has an affinity for hitting us with curveballs musically. How seamlessly he’s capable of jumping from crooning R&B to elite level rapping & now, I don’t even know what genre you’d label this if you had to, Afrobeat, Caribbean, all I know is that it’s beautiful music that’s coming from a genuine place. I don’t believe anybody else at this moment is making greater records for the ladies.
Bray is always empowering the women when he gets in his R&B bag. Bray don’t got time for anybody who only has to offer the bare minimum on “Me Need Yuh Best”, he needs a woman who’s gonna at least put forth an effort to impress him cause the infatuation is only gonna take this so far. It’ll take two to tango when you throw on this floor stopper, especially as it bleeds into the next track, which continues to stop the floor. Bray would much rather fuck with a “Naughty Gyal”, those usually tend to be the independent women & luckily for them, he’s nothing like the insecure men she’s had to deal with in her past & that alone can make even the sternest of women let their guard down & be submissive.
“Drown” is another one of those more poignant numbers from Bray, where the woman in question has him weak in the knees for her. It’s clear that he wants more than just the occasional hook up & hopefully she can be the one to get him to settle down & get up out the trenches. The game getting a little to dirty out here for his liking. On the standout cut out of these 4, Bray wants to make up only to “Breakup”. He knows this girl is probably nothing but bad news yet he’s still infatuated or possibly addicted to the chaos that is their relationship & I can completely relate. All in all, these are 4 more massive singles to add to his ever growing archive. The man is a hit making machine.