Fuelled with an abundance of empowering energy, Chicago based artist Summer Payton is back and better than ever as she offers up the slick new video for ‘Need To Know’. The track is taken off her stellar album ‘Golden Hour’, and features feisty bars from Tia P. The duo bounce off each other throughout the visuals, making viewers want to get up and move.
Summer’s brother Phil The Prodigal also appears, who notably produced the track, marking the single as the siblings’ first official musical collaboration.
Speaking on the single, Summer revealed: “‘Need to Know’ was a song that was a long time in the making. My brother, Phil the Prodigal first made the beat a while back and I knew it was a banger immediately. He didn’t know it was for me yet but I had my eye on it, watching from afar to see what he did with it. At some point I had him send me the bounce of the beat and I was carrying it around in my notes section in my phone waiting for inspiration to strike me. And it did, random as always. I was coming out of acting class and the words and melody just hit me. “We on a need to know, that’s how this go”. I remember running to my car to record a voice note and mumble more melodies. At the time I was fed up with people trying to be in my business and thinking they know things about me and my friends that they don’t. When I got home that night I wrote the whole chorus and my verse and recorded the demo. As I listened back the next day I thought how dope would it be to get a feature on this from a woman who’s a rapper and amp up the female empowerment on the record. I instantly knew I wanted my girl Tia P. on it. She’s a dope MC and I knew she would come and lace it with the fire and energy it needed. She did not disappoint! She blazed it. Tia is the only feature on my debut album, ‘Golden Hour’. ‘Need to Know ft. Tia P’ sits proudly at Track 9. So when it was time to shoot the video I just wanted to showcase to the world what two B O S S E S look like. We’re just out in LA driving through the streets having fun and doing what we do best, performing and expressing ourselves.”
Watch the video here:
