Guest Post by Hannah E @hlekren

After months of waiting for new material, I’m absolutely thrilled to hear something so refreshing from the ever-insightful Witt Lowry. He just dropped his first single, “Numb”, from his new album, and it’s a bit of a departure from the signature Witt we’ve come to know. He’s taken inspiration from what’s playing on loop through the radio and puts his own spin to it, which he’s definitely done before but this is on another level. He’s still here to hold up a mirror to the industry, to other rappers, to those who are just here to listen and learn, but this time it’s in a package that you can turn up to, that you can zone into, that you can sink into. This is the kind of record that stays on your playlist forever because it can be whatever you need it to be.

“Numb” should be the adulting national anthem. It encompasses disappointment, moving on, and dealing with frustrations – and how turning off a piece of yourself becomes a defense mechanism. I don’t know that I’ll ever relate to a hook as much as I – and anyone who’s left behind childhood friends and dreams should – have with “I know where I’m from but I don’t stay no more/because everyone back home don’t act the same no more.” We’re all here trying to make our way in the world and it’s not easy so we need our vices to get through. At this point, Witt is a pretty good vice through which to filter the worlds we all carry on our shoulders.

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I think Witt is absolutely brilliant, so bear with me while I take you in this circle. It gets really easy to get lost in life. Love doesn’t work out. Work actually sucks. You’re not getting anywhere, but you’re still working your ass off. You always have those people in your periphery who are rooting for you to fail. You’re putting your heart into everything you can see that’s worth it, and getting stomped on even after you’ve given everything you have. So then comes alcohol at the end of the day, or whatever helps to turn off the part of you that cares because you have to get through the next day, which you know will be exactly like the ones you just had. But here’s where Witt makes this kind of brilliant – because he’s given us something to wallow in, while at the same time giving us something to get us off our feet to start walking towards something. Forget the past, shake it off, do what you have to do to move on.

He has a line tucked into the track, “Aren’t you mad there’s no passion in the music you’re playing?” that whips this whole record into focus. Witt is all about passion and he’s living it out. He’s given up everything, he works day in and day out, and you can see the music marking his progress. He is working for his dream and damn, he’s starting to get somewhere with it. It comes down to putting passion back into your life – and it has hit me that it’s exactly why I’ll listen to Witt no matter what he’s doing. He wears his passion on his sleeve, it bleeds into everything he does, and listening to it gets my own blood pumping again.

Witt is on the edge of something really incredible here and I can’t wait to see him push over that edge. And I like to think this is the kind of track that can help you push yourself over your own edge, especially if you’ve been with Witt for this fight since the beginning. “Numb” is something you can listen to psyche yourself up for the day, to wallow after a bad day, or to get everyone moving. It’s for everyone, for every day. Turn it on, turn it up, and get through tomorrow with Witt standing in your corner.

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