In the present day, August 22, 2025, Keznamdi McDonald launched his new full-length venture BLXXD & FYAH on the Keznamdi Music Group Label. As we’re used to from Keznamdi, the 13-track album carries a powerful message, rooted in wrestle, resilience, and transformation, mixing roots reggae with fashionable influences.
Visitor appearances add further firepower, along with his sis Kelissa on I Am, Mavado and Marlon Asher on Bun Di Ganja (Roots Model), a re-lick on Chezidek’s 2013 hook, and Masicka on Perpetually Grateful. The album strikes via themes of id, colonial historical past, and non secular grounding with tracks like Colonial Bondage, Natty Dread Locks (certainly one of our private favourites on the album), and River Jordan. Particular point out must be given to Keznamdi’s tribute to the good Toots Hibbert on Pomps and Delight.
In Keznamdi’s personal phrases (in an interview with Digital Journal) the album title displays sacrifice and renewal: blood symbolizing the worth paid within the wrestle, and fireplace standing for progress and the burning away of what should be left behind. That steadiness of ache and uplift shines via songs like Id Disaster, Stress, and the closing monitor Time.
Clocking in at round 45 minutes, BLXXD & FYAH is a press release with its heavyweight collaborations and highly effective storytelling. Keznamdi positions this venture as each a continuation of reggae’s roots custom and a push ahead into new territory. One of many higher reggae releases we now have heard this 2025.
BLXXD & FYAH is out now on all main platforms.
