Aitch just announced his debut album 'Close To Home'
IT'S FINALLY COMING!
Last updated 19th May 2022
Guys, we have to apologise in advance if we get a little too excited throughout this piece, but we feel like it's totally warranted, as Aitch has only gone and announced his DEBUT ALBUM!
YAAS, the rapper, real name Harrison James Armstrong, has delighted fans on social media by revealing details about the hugely-antipcated album, which will be called 'Close To Home'.
Doing that classic 'I have a new album' coming thing artists do by deleting all of their previous Instagram posts, Aitch's fans had a feeling something special was in the pipeline!
And Aitch delivered not long after, sharing what is thought to be the album artwork, Aitch told fans: 'Close To Home My debut album!
'This one means a lot. The past 4 years have been crazy thank you to everyone that’s been involved, I can’t appreciate you enough, whether you been here from the start or not I got nothing but love🤞🏡 #C2H' (sic)
Fans were quick to comment their excitement. One wrote: 'Your time my boy 👏🏾', with another adding: '🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 yessss lets gooooo'.
A third then wrote: 'It’s about time 🔥🔥🔥🔥'.
Aitch's album 'Close To Home' will be released on Friday 19th August.
At this moment in time, we are yet to know the official track list for 'Close To Home', but it is expected to include Aitch's new single '1989', which is due to land on Friday 20th May.
The video for '1989' was shot in Aitch's home town of Manchester, with the track sampling The Stone Roses' track 'Fools Gold'.
Check out all of these things you didn't know about Aitch:
Aitch regularly treats his fans
He really loves his fans, no really! In 2021, Aitch treated a fan to a shopping spree at Selfridges for her birthday and documented the whole thing on TikTok. Do you think he'll repeat the gesture?
He used to be a labourer
Aitch knows what it's like to do a hard day's graft. Before making the big time in the world of music and rap, he worked with his grandad as a labourer.
He's known for his freestyles
If you cast your minds back to 2018, Aitch went viral after dropping a freestyle rap, at just 18-years-old. The video catapulted him to fame, and kickstarted a pretty epic career.
He's not afraid to speak his mind
Aitch will tell it how it is! In 2021, the rapper spoke out against criticism surrounding the 'Learning Curve' artwork. Following negative comments about the diverse models featuring in his 'Learning Curve' music video, he spoke out on Spotify's Who We Be TALKS_ podcast, where he admitted he found it "hard to witness."
He said: "All the negative stuff was mad to see; obviously, rappers get hate all the time, but it was a lot, and it was also s--t to see men hating on girls that much, it's hard to witness."
'Rain' with AJ Tracey is his most viewed music video
With over a whopping 72 million views, Aitch and AJ Tracey's track 'Rain' serves as the rapper's most viewed music video on YouTube at the minute. His other most viewed videos include 'Taste (Make It Shake)', 'Straight Rhymez', 'Buss Down' and 'Baby'.
Watch the official music video for 'Rain' here on YouTube.
He'd do a collaboration with Billie Eilish
In response to fans thinking Aitch resembles Billie Eilish he said: "Yeah I can see it. I slyly look like Billie Eilish in that picture." He also exclusively revealed if he would do a collab with the singer, saying: "I'd do a tune with her right now. I don't think she knows who I am. She definitely doesn't know who I am. I'll message her after this and see what happens. Big up Billie. Sister!"
What has been the best mispronunciation of Aitch's name?
He told us: "The best mispronunciation of my name would probably be 'Itch' or 'Aaa-itch' but 'Itch' is the worst one. I hate 'Itch'."
He also revealed what he would be if he wasn't a rapper, saying: "If I weren't a rapper, I'd probably be skipping college lessons now thinking about what to do. Thinking about what I'm going to say to my mum why I've not been in maths."
Who is Aitch's dream collaboration?
Although previously revealing that would love to do a collab with Billie Eilish, Aitch also revealed: "My dream collab is 50 Cent."
Aitch popped in for a chat with Tyler on KISS Breakfast following the release of his last track 'Baby', and he exclusively revealed the one and only Ed Sheeran will feature on his album.
When Tyler asked if he'd like to collab with Ed, Aitch said with a huge smile on his face: "Ed's on the album! I've not said that yet. Just gave that away."
Speaking about how the song came about, Aitch added: "I made the song, told him the concept of the song, he loved it. Got a voice note. He sent me a voice note saying I think I'm gonna do it.
"It was mad. He just does it all rough. He just sent me a voice note, he was like 'I think I'm gonna do this'. Played the beat in the background, started singing it. I was like 'yeah that's perfect'."
Aitch's album 'Close To Home' is out on Friday 19th August.
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