RMR Returns With Lovesick Single “Vibes” Feat. Tyla Yaweh on Cmnty Culture / Warner Records

Today, masked hip-hop visionary RMR returns with breezy, yearning R&B single “Vibes” featuring Los Angeles singer/rapper Tyla Yaweh on CMNTY CULTURE/Warner Records. True to the genre-blurring approach RMR has shown on all his music to date, this track blends styles and sounds, swerving from slow-motion grooves to dreamy R&B to lovesick acoustic balladry in less than three minutes.

“Vibes” finds RMR in an emotional mode, contemplating love lost and found over a minimal instrumental. He blurs dazed R&B with melodic rapping and acoustic guitar explorations, showing off his versatility as a songwriter, but also creating the perfect canvas for his lovelorn lyrics. That he manages to pack so much into a tightly paced pop song is a testament to his ambitions as an artist—something that “Vibes” makes explicitly clear in its opening moments. “Not satisfied,” he sings. “I want all of it.”

This new single follows a hot streak for RMR, who broke out at the top of 2020 with the viral “Rascal,” a swooning single built around an emotional interpolation of Rascal Flatts version of “Bless the Broken Road.” Critics and fans took to that song fast—The Fader called it “one of the best songs of 2020” and Stereogum has since called him “an artist with a grasp on many genres and a distinct creative vision.”

Since then, RMR has demonstrated the breadth of his vision, first on his debut EP, DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART, and then on his boundary-pushing 2021 single “Her Honeymoon .” Each track he’s released has shown off a new side to his sound and personality, which makes following his music endlessly exciting. You never know exactly what you’re going to get, but if “Vibes” is any indication, we’re entering a momentous era for RMR.

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RMR describes his music as “diagonal,” which makes sense, considering how boundless his sound feels. Instead of falling in line with preconceived expectations, he zigzags through genres, immersing himself in country music, sidling up next to R&B, diving headfirst into trap, and reveling in pop, all the while recalling the vocal stylings of the alternative scene from the 2000s. His willingness to express himself in so many ways makes for songs so engaging that you almost forget you don’t know who he is—he intentionally keeps his identity under wraps. In February 2020, RMR, pronounced “rumor,” became an overnight sensation, after releasing his debut song, “Rascal,” a moving interpolation of “Bless the Broken Road,” first popularized by Rascal Flatts in 2004. It wasn’t long before RMR signed to CMNTY CULTURE and Warner Records, releasing his EP DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART in June 2020. The project found RMR expanding his sound even further, swerving into uncharted hip-hop territory in one moment and slinking his way through ’80s-inspired dream pop in another. Behind his signature embroidered balaclava and gleaming gold teeth is a man who chooses growth over stagnancy, music over celebrity, and faith over self-absorption. It’s only up from here as RMR enters his next phase, diagonally.

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Dr. Jerry Doby Editor-in-Chief of The Hype Magazine, Media and SEO Consultant, Journalist, Ph.D. and retired combat vet. 2023 recipient of The President's Lifetime Achievement Award. Partner at THM Media Group. Member of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, the United States Press Agency and ForbesBLK.