| Release Date | 15/08/2025 |
| Format | 2LP Gold/ CD |
| Label | drink sum wtr |
| Catalogue Number | DSW023LPC1/ DSW023CD |
“Suffering is promised to us all, but so is joy. You have to find peace in that duality,” says Yaya Bey, who commits to life’s delight — humor, love, the power of human movement and connection — even if she has to do it afraid. With her new album, which follows a run of critically acclaimed releases and marks her debut on art-forward indie label drink sum wtr, the Queens, New York singer-songwriter thrives across uplifting, effervescent material. A rejection of past narratives projected onto her, ‘do it afraid’ finds Bey reclaiming her story with resolutely fun, full-hearted, and nuanced songs that pull from R&B, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and dance music, including the soca stylings of her family’s Bajan roots. do it afraid celebrates all sides of Yaya as part of a collective lifeforce that doesn’t subscribe to fear but to the moments that move us.
Tracklist:
01. wake up b*tch
02. end of the world (feat. Nigel Hall & Butcher Brown)
03. real yearners unite
04. cindy rella
05. raisins
06. spin cycle
07. dream girl
08. merlot and grigio (feat. Father Philis)
09. breakthrough
10. a surrender
11. in a circle
12. aye noche (feat. Rahrah Gabor and Exaktly)
13. no for real, wtf?
14. blicky
15. ask the questions
16. bella noches pt. 1
17. a tiny thing that’s mine
18. choice